🇧🇷⚡️- 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%

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Ethiopian airstrikes against the city of Rama, and the towns of Fada and Awo, northern Tigray region, along Eritrea's border.

Note, Rama has allegedly been under Eritrean military control since late 2022.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Several Ethiopian and neutral sources report that large columns of Eritrean troops have crossed into Ethiopia and entered northern Tigray, particularly around Adigrat, the Tigray Defense Forces stronghold.

The reports remain unconfirmed.

🇾🇪⚡- Pro-PLC Giants Brigades are conducting successful counterattacks in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait area of southwestern Yemen.

The exact extent of their territorial gains remains unclear, as the situation on the ground remains fluid.

🇪🇸⚡- BREAKING: Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called for an early election on November 29.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- The White House is monitoring the lab plague outbreak in Irkutsk, Russia, Axios reports.

🇷🇺⚡- More than 60 people have been isolated at the Anti-Plague Institute, where the outbreak originated and initially claimed the life of a 27-year-old worker.

A further 200+ people are being monitored by authorities.

🇰🇿🇷🇺⚡- "The situation in Kazakhstan remains under continuous monitoring, and the necessary preventive measures have been taken. Sanitary and quarantine controls are being carried out at border crossing points," - Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan.

🇾🇪 - Reports of non-PLC affiliated former Southern Transitional Council military formations assisting the Saudi-backed PLC against Ansarullah are false.

Media affiliated with the Storm and Security Belt formations have denied the reports.

🇾🇪 - Additional documentation of the Giant Brigades at the northern gates of Dhubab Airport, Mocha direction, southwest Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- The Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen announces the start of Operation 'Dawn of Yemen'.

🇾🇪 - The approximate current situation in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait area, Mocha direction, southwest Yemen.

PLC forces have captured Murad. Control over Dhubab Airport is practically impossible without securing al-Omari, which remains under Ansarullah control. Therefore, the airport likely remains under al-Houthi control, or at best, lies within a grey-zone.

The control of Mayun Island also remains unclear.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has ceased operations again following Ansarullah attacks on a number of pumping stations, AFP reports.

Update: Reuters and Bloomberg have denied AFP's report, stating the pipeline is operating as normal.