Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns from exile

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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after more than ten months in exile, announcing her arrival on social media on Sunday with the message “I’m here. With you.” She left the country covertly in late twenty twenty-five to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and had since conducted much of her political work from the United States and Panama. Her return comes after the removal of former president Nicolás Maduro and the installation of interim president Delcy Rodríguez, whose mandate has exceeded its authorised term with no election scheduled. Machado has said she intends to challenge the leadership that sidelined her and to press for new elections.

Meanwhile, in Serbia, Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a student‑led opposition, ending fourteen years of dominance. In an early speech he said, “It is clear that we have lost these elections,” and congratulated his opponents. The Student List is projected to win a majority. The snap election had a turnout of nearly seventy percent, the highest since Yugoslavia’s breakup in one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two, after almost two years of student protests over corruption and authoritarianism. The protests were sparked by the twenty twenty-four collapse of a train‑station canopy in Novi Sad that killed sixteen people. Vučić, endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, had denounced the movement as a foreign‑led attempt to unseat him, and now faces the end of his era.

In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a fourth term in office, defeating right-wing challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in a tight presidential runoff. Official results showed Lula taking fifty-one point seven percent of the vote to Bolsonaro’s forty-eight point two percent. The election pitted the leftist incumbent against the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of U S President Donald Trump, in a contest widely seen as a referendum on Brazil’s political direction and on U S influence in Latin America. Voting on Sunday was extended by two hours by Brazil’s top court, and the campaign was deeply polarising. Lula’s victory secures another term for the veteran leftist leader.

In the Middle East, Israeli forces are conducting a large‑scale operation around Hebron in the occupied West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on Friday. The military said the gunmen were killed and at least five people were injured. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank, vowed a heavy response, and warned that some Hebron residents would be displaced. Since the attack, hundreds of Palestinian families have been displaced, and Israel will close all land crossings with the West Bank on Tuesday, the day of its parliamentary election, which is seen as a referendum on Netanyahu’s leadership and security policies during three years of war.

In Germany, a fire broke out again overnight at the Kehlsteinhaus, Adolf Hitler’s former mountain retreat known as the Eagle’s Nest, in the Bavarian Alps. The rekindled blaze followed an initial fire on Friday night, after which police said the structure was probably not salvageable. About two hundred firefighters were deployed to tackle the original blaze at the remote site near the Austrian border, and German police detained a suspect. No injuries were reported. The building, completed in one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, was intended as a retreat for Nazi officials but was rarely used by Hitler himself.

In the United States, a shooting near the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University campus in Tallahassee on Saturday night left twelve people injured, including six juveniles, police said. At least eleven of the victims suffered gunshot wounds; the youngest was eleven years old. The shooting occurred hours after the university’s homecoming game and followed an altercation at a homecoming party, according to authorities, who are searching for the gunman or gunmen.

Across the United Kingdom, Storm Boelo has killed two men, brought winds of up to eighty-four miles per hour and left around eight hundred thousand homes without power. A sixty-year-old man died near Castle Douglas in Scotland when a tree fell on him; a second man was later killed by a falling tree as the storm continued to batter Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. Recovery work is under way, and an amber wind warning remained in effect into Sunday evening.

In Alaska, Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and members of her family sustained minor injuries in a car crash on Saturday while travelling to a campaign stop, her campaign said. Another vehicle struck the car carrying them to the Alaska Federation of Natives annual banquet. Peltola received medical attention and has delayed upcoming campaign events.

In east London, a four-year-old girl has died after falling from a tower block in Barking on Saturday morning. She was injured after falling from height at an address on St Paul’s Road and later died in hospital, the Metropolitan Police said. The incident is not believed to be suspicious.

Elsewhere in entertainment news, Emmy-winning voice actor Eric Bauza, who gave voice to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in modern Looney Tunes productions, has died at home at the age of forty-six. His family said he died from hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Bauza also voiced characters in this summer’s animated film Coyote vs. Acme.

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