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🇺🇸🇺🇸❗️🇧🇷 — URGENT: The FBI is monitoring possible plans for ATTACKS against the United States Embassy and consulates in Brazil on the eve of the elections.

🇨🇮🇧🇷⚠️ — The Embassy of Ireland in Brazil issues travel alerts for Brazil and will keep its diplomatic missions closed until October 25.

🇩🇪🇧🇷⚠️ — The German government has just issued a security alert for Brazil related to the elections:

🇬🇧🇧🇷⚠️ — The British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) advises against all travel, except essential, to some regions of Brazil.

🇮🇱🇦🇪🇴🇲 — The Omani co-pilot that attempted to hijack the Flydubai aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv is 'cooperating' with the investigation, sources briefed on the matter told ABC News.

The co-pilot has been identified as 29-year-old Hamam al-Hammami.

According to CNN, al-Hammami was born in the UAE to Omani and Syrian parents and spent several years living in the country.

🇮🇱🇦🇪🇴🇲 — An alleged pic of the Omani co-pilot.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪 — US President Trump's top Cabinet members held a hours-long meeting at Camp David on Friday to discuss next steps in the Iran war and the Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen. Vice President JD Vance chaired the meeting.

"Things were decided or at least deeply discussed," a U.S. official said.

The highly unusual gathering was not announced by the Trump administration. The last similar meeting took place in June 2025, just days before Israel went to war with Iran.

— Axios | @TheWarReporter

🇦🇹🇪🇺🤝🇦🇹 — At PanEuropa Congress 2026, Austrian Presidential Candidate Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn spoke with Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, the Head of the House of Habsburg & former Austrian People's Party MP, which used to rule over Austria since the times of Holy Roman Empire.

🇷🇺 200 people who had contact with the scientist killed by plague hospitalized in Irkutsk. Some are symptomatic.

🇦🇿❌🇷🇺 — Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev took a diss at Russia:

🇧🇷🗳📊 — Palver Presidential Poll, national level

🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL): 47% (+3)
⭐ Lula (PT): 43% (-1)
🐯 Renan Santos (Mission): 7% (-1)
🗽 Augusto Cury (Avante): 1% (=)
🧑‍🌾 Ronaldo Caiado (PSD): 1% (=)
🔘 Others: 0% (-1)
⚪️ Blank/Null/Would not vote: 0% (-1)

➡️ Flávio Bolsonaro appears with 47%, four points above the previous round, while Lula remains at 43%. Renan Santos scores 7%, and the other candidates appear with 1% or less. As percentages are rounded, the total may not add up exactly to 100%.

📋 TECHNICAL SHEET
📝 Institute: Palver
📆 Fieldwork: 09/30 to 10/03/2026
📊 Sample: 5,000 respondents
📊 Margin of error: ±2.4 p.p.
🔎 Methodology: Online survey
⚖️ TSE Registration: BR-00198/2026

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷 — British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting:

—❗️🇧🇬 Tsar Samuel’s remains return to Bulgaria

➡️ His remains arrived in Sofia on 3 October and were placed in St Sophia Church after a state ceremony.

➡️ Greece handed them over under an agreement reached with Bulgaria following decades of negotiations.

➡️ Samuel led the Bulgarian state’s resistance to Byzantium for decades, with Ohrid becoming a centre of his rule.

🔗 Return of Tsar Samuel's Remains Is Major Diplomatic Achievement, Mayor Terziev Says

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

—🇧🇬🤝🇬🇷 Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev:

I extend my deepest gratitude to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his leadership, wisdom and courage in making this historic agreement possible. Today, Bulgaria and Greece demonstrate that the shadows of the past can be left behind and that our shared future can be built on trust, mutual respect, friendship and an ever stronger strategic partnership.

🔗 Rumen Radev

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—📸 Pictures for history

🇮🇱🤝🇩🇪 — The State of Israel wishes Germany a Happy Unification day, in which Germany celebrates the end of the Soviet occupation and of the Communist rule over its East

🇮🇱🇬🇧 Netanyahu describes the UK as a 'pariah state'.

🇧🇷🤝🇮🇱 — Former Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro tells Israeli activist Hananya Naftali that Flavio Bolsonaro, if elected President, Will Move the Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem

On X, Naftali said:

🔗 Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali)

🇧🇷🗳📊 — National DATAFOLHA poll for the Presidency of the Republic.

⭐ Lula (PT, Left-wing Populist): 42% (=)
🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL, Right-Wing Populist): 40% (+2)
🧑‍🌾 Ronaldo Caiado (PSD, Center-right): 4% (+1)
🗽 Augusto Cury (AVANTE, Center): 3% (-1)
🐯 Renan Santos (MISSÃO, National liberalism): 3% (=)
🐍 Romeu Zema (NOVO, Libertarian): 1%

1ST ROUND (VALID VOTES)

⭐ Lula (PT): 45%
🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL): 42%
🧑‍🌾 Ronaldo Caiado (PSD): 4%
🐯 Renan Santos (Missão): 3%
🗽 Augusto Cury (Avante): 3%
🐍 Romeu Zema (Novo): 1%

📊 Datafolha Presidential | 2ND ROUND

▶️ The new Datafolha poll shows a numerically tighter race: Lula stands at 47% and Flávio Bolsonaro at 46%, a difference of just 1 percentage point.

🫂 4,006 respondents
🔍 02-03/10
⚖️ BR-01708/2026

🇧🇷🗳📊 — Futura, Presidential Poll | National

✅ 1ST ROUND — STIMULATED
🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL): 42.5% (+0.3)
⭐ Lula (PT): 40.5% (+1.1)
🗽 Augusto Cury (AVANTE): 3.9% (+0.1)
🧑‍🌾 Ronaldo Caiado (PSD): 3.7% (−0.3)
🐯 Renan Santos (MISSÃO): 2.6% (−0.6)
🐍 Romeu Zema (NOVO): 0.8% (−0.8)
🚩 Samara Martins (UP): 0.4% (+0.2)
🛠 Edmilson Costa (PCB): 0.2% (=)
4️⃣ Rui Costa Pimenta (PCO): 0.1% (=)
✝️ Clariana Barão (DC): 0.1% (+0.1)
🏛 Wilson Grassi (DEMOCRATA): 0.1% (=)
4️⃣ Hertz Dias (PSTU): 0.1% (=)

⚪️ None/Blank/Null: 2.6% (+0.2)
❓ NS/NR/Undecided: 2.4% (−0.2)

🗳 VALID VOTES
🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL): 44.8%
⭐ Lula (PT): 42.6%
🗽 Augusto Cury (AVANTE): 4.1%
🧑‍🌾 Ronaldo Caiado (PSD): 3.9%
🐯 Renan Santos (MISSÃO): 2.8%
🐍 Romeu Zema (NOVO): 0.8%
🚩 Samara Martins (UP): 0.4%
🛠 Edmilson Costa (PCB): 0.2%
4️⃣ Rui Costa Pimenta (PCO): 0.1%
✝️ Clariana Barão (DC): 0.1%
🏛 Wilson Grassi (DEMOCRATA): 0.1%
4️⃣ Hertz Dias (PSTU): 0.1%

📋 TECHNICAL SHEET
📝 Institute: Futura
💸 Client: 100% Cidades
📆 Fieldwork: October 2 and 3, 2026
🫂 Sample: 2,000 voters
📊 Margin of error: ±2.2 p.p.
📌 TSE Registration: BR-02431/2026