🇧🇷⚡️- At 98.7% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 47.24%
Lula: 44.91%

Flavio Bolsonaro is leading with +2.34pts as results are nearly complete.

Flavio Bolsonaro will face Lula during the second turn of the Brazilian presidential election on the 25th of October.

🇧🇷- In 2022, Lula had a 5.2pts lead over Jair Bolsonaro during the first turn. Lula's lead shrunk to 1.8pts in the second turn as he narrowly won with 50.9% of the votes.

Flavio Bolsonaro has strengthened his position in virtually all of the municipalities compared to 2022 and has flipped the vital region of Minas Gerais.

Lula is projected to lose against Flavio Bolsonaro later this month. Should Lula manage to come back from the sizeable setback of tonight, he is guaranteed to have diminished power as he will have no control over the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies.

🇧🇷⚡️- At 99.1% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 47.20%
Lula: 44.96%

✈️ 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

“We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States,” a US official told CNN. The statement did not include details on why the planes were moved.

The source familiar called the latest threat a “real world incident.”

The Royal Air Force base at Fairford has been used to deploy US B-1 bombers involved in the war against Iran and is a forward operating location for US Global Strike Command, which is tasked with managing long-distance strikes.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/politics/us-air-force-bombers-removed-fairford-iran

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🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Widespread violent clashes are ongoing in the Ma'rib direction, central Yemen, PLC forces in the area seem to have launched offensive operations.

Multiple Saudi airstrikes against Ansarullah positions in the Ma'rib direction in the last few minutes.

🇾🇪⚡- PLC forces have captured Faliha, southern Ma'rib direction. Clashes are ongoing north of the Ansarullah-controlled Umm Rish Military Camp.

—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah have recaptured Murad, Bab Al-Mandab; abandoned Saudi vehicles can be seen in the footage above

All PLC advances since the morning have been reversed.

@Middle_East_Spectator