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Stories for October 5th 2026

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

    Paraguay's opposition takes Asunción from the Colorado Party and holds Ciudad del Este

    In Ciudad del Este, Daniel Pereira Mujica of the opposition Yo Creo party won with 72.83%, keeping the city in the hands of the party previously led locally by Miguel Prieto

    Paraguay's opposition won the mayoralty of Asunción and held that of Ciudad del Este, the country's two most populous cities, in Sunday's municipal elections, according to preliminary results from the electoral authority. The ruling Colorado Party, however, won the vast majority of districts.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 17:30 UTC

    São Paulo stocks jump 8% and the real firms after Bolsonaro's first-round win

    Bolsonaro won 47% of valid votes to Lula's 45%, and the two will face each other in the October 25 runoff

    Brazilian markets rallied sharply on Monday in response to the first round of the presidential election, in which Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, contrary to what polls had predicted. The São Paulo Stock Exchange's Bovespa index rose as much as 8% in early trading, above 208,000 points.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 17:18 UTC

    “The end of the PT era is decreed,” says Flávio Bolsonaro after winning the first round

    The senator pledged to cut the number of ministries and end presidential re-election, a measure that would require a constitutional amendment; he said one term would be enough for him

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro celebrated his first-round victory in Brazil's presidential election in Brasília with a message focused on change. “Change, the word is change. Brazil can't take any more. The end of the PT era is decreed,” he told reporters outside his campaign headquarters.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 17:08 UTC

    Lula bets on education and non-voters to overturn the result in the runoff

    “The result is often unexpected. You never get everything you wanted,” the president said from a hotel in São Paulo

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has set education, research and industrial policy as the pillars of his campaign for the October 25 runoff, and urged the more than 30 million Brazilians who abstained on Sunday to vote, after finishing behind Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 10:30 UTC

    Flávio Bolsonaro edges Lula in the first round; both head to an October 25 runoff

    “Brazil wants change,” Bolsonaro said in Brasília, thanking some 56 million voters, more than his father won in the first round in 2022

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro won around 47% of valid votes in the first round of Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took about 45%, according to the Superior Electoral Court's count. As neither passed half of the valid votes, the two will face each other in a runoff on October 25.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 10:20 UTC

    Falklands weighs curbs on Argentine visitors after flag-waving incidents

    MLA Michael Goss said the Assembly is examining what can legally be done, but insisted Argentina’s pressure is “just noise”

    Amid a sharp rise in international attention on the South Atlantic and its energy resources, Falkland Islands residents have been angered by Argentine visitors seen waving Argentine flags and banners denying British sovereignty, prompting calls from members of the community to restrict such visits.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 01:35 UTC

    US withdraws all its bombers from Britain's RAF Fairford base

    The base, in Gloucestershire, is a forward operating location for the US Air Force's Global Strike Command

    The United States has withdrawn all the bombers it had deployed at RAF Fairford, in western England, a week after the incident near the base that British counter-terrorism police are investigating. Washington gave no reason for the decision.

  • Monday, October 5th 2026 - 00:20 UTC

    From Group Chats to Matchday Streams: How Sports Communities Grow Online in Indonesia

    Indonesia's sports communities no longer depend on one venue or one broadcast. A football supporter can follow club news before breakfast, join a messaging group at lunch, watch the match at night, then debate tactics long after full time. Basketball fans do something similar around IBL clubs, while esports communities add livestreams, creator analysis, team clips, and tournament chats. APJII reported internet penetration of 81.72% in 2026, or roughly 235 million users, and DataReportal estimated 180 million social media user identities in Indonesia in October 2025. That scale gives communities room to form around a club, player, game title, city, or creator. The strongest ones grow because members have reasons to return, not because a page collects the most followers.