Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 5 October 2026. These are the top five elections making headlines around the world.
Brazil is heading for a closely fought presidential run-off between right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after Bolsonaro narrowly led the first round with 47 per cent of the vote to Lula’s 45 per cent. Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, said the result showed Brazilians wanted change, while his stronger-than-expected performance boosted investor confidence. The election was largely peaceful, although Brazilian authorities have opened an investigation into alleged foreign interference as the country prepares for the 25 October run-off.
Latvia’s centrist, pro-Ukraine United List part won Saturday’s parliamentary election by a wide margin, taking 36.6 per cent of the vote with 88 per cent of ballots counted. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs will need coalition partners to form a government, while security concerns linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine dominated the campaign. The result also saw gains for populist and pro-Russian parties, highlighting divisions over Latvia’s approach to the war and its Russian-speaking minority.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three-member presidency is set for a new term after preliminary results showed Denis Bećirović winning the Bosniak seat, Darijana Filipović taking the Croat seat and Željka Cvijanović retaining the Serb seat. With more than 90 per cent of votes counted, the results also put the SDA and SNSD ahead in parliamentary contests, while turnout stood at 41.5 per cent.
Paraguay’s ruling Colorado Party suffered a major setback in Sunday’s municipal elections, losing control of Asunción after seven years. Opposition candidate Soledad Núñez narrowly won the capital with 47.78 per cent of the vote, while the opposition also secured a landslide victory in Ciudad del Este. The results could signal growing support for the opposition ahead of the 2028 presidential election and strengthen centrist leader Miguel Prieto’s prospects as a potential challenger to the ruling party.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for 29 November, putting his Socialist government’s future on the line after months of political setbacks and corruption allegations. His party is trailing in opinion polls, while a potential alliance between the conservative People’s Party and Vox could bring the far right into national government. Sánchez is hoping his housing policies and record on the economy will help revive support, but his fragmented coalition has struggled to pass legislation and has not approved a budget since 2023.
Peace is Armenia’s only reliable guarantee of security, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said in comments in Dublin, where he also...
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into M...
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in She...
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has backed withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and overhauling the country’s defence doctrine, calling both steps essential to national security and deterrence.
President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks while the United States continues to work towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Kazakhstan-linked hackers stole thousands of national security documents from Tajikistan, a cybersecurity company has said.
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into Miklós Seszták, a former minister under ex-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in Shenzhen on 19 November. The White House says the talks will focus on nuclear arms reductions, with Iran also on the agenda.
U.S. negotiators floated the idea of Ukraine withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
China is taking its space technology ambitions beyond its borders, with a major deal to build a network of 20 artificial intelligence-powered satellites for Oman.
Europe will send a team of diplomats to Ukraine peace talks rather than a single envoy, EU leaders agreed on Friday at the end of a summit in Dublin.
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