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JAIR BOLSONARO

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses supporters after winning the presidential runoff election, in Sao Paulo on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2026
Brazil’s Lula forced into tricky top court reform by unrestrained judge
A powerful justice has become a liability for the reelected president just as he prepares for a new term promising to heal the country’s divisions.
Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has reportedly fled Brazil after his loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s runoff election.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
U.S. to give visa to Brazilian election loser Bolsonaro
The defeated presidential candidate is reportedly en route to the U.S. following his loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets supporters outside a polling station after voting during the presidential runoff election in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 26, 2026
Brazil’s Lula wins record fourth term in a shock comeback
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s victory was eked out in the 11th-hour after voters from his heartland rallied to the rescue.
Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro during the presidential debate at the TV Band studios in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2026
Billionaire Brazilian brothers emerge as Bolsonaro’s foes in presidential runoff
Joao and Walter Moreira Salles are major donors to progressive and left-leaning?congressional candidates.
Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reports presidential election results at a newsstand in Sao Paulo on Monday, following a surprise first-place finish by right-wing Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2026
Brazil’s political center of gravity has shifted
The Brazilian electorate is older, more devout, and more preoccupied with crime and personal security than it once was.
Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes attends a hearing on the investigation into alleged links between himself and banker Daniel Vorcaro at the court in Brasilia on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
Brazil’s top court postpones ruling on probe of justice in politically charged case
Calls for a probe of Justice Alexandre de Moraes are an outgrowth of a case involving failed lender Banco Master that has rattled Brazil for months.
Brazilians attend a campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2026
Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro ties Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in polls ahead of vote
A court crisis has handed the senator a potent rallying cry: the fate of the justice who oversaw the imprisonment of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro (center), along with his wife Fernanda Bolsonaro (left) and his running mate Alfredo Gaspar (right) during a press conference in Brasilia on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2026
Bolsonaro seeks campaign reset with surprise running mate pick
The surprise choice of conservative lawmaker Alfredo Gaspar represents a shift for Bolsonaro, who had pledged to select a woman to bolster support from female voters.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the Workers' Party national convention in Sao Paulo on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2026
Brazil’s Lula battles Trump and Milei over perceived election meddling
The twin disputes are unfolding against the backdrop of a fierce election battle between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the right-leaning Flavio Bolsonaro.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks to reporters following his White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington in May.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 26, 2026
Brazil blocks visas of U.S. envoys over election interference
The government saw the visit as election interference, according to two Brazilian officials.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last month
WORLD
Jun 3, 2026
U.S. tariff threats give Lula a new election attack on Bolsonaro
The move handed the Brazilian President a ready-made line of attack against his main challenger ahead of an election that polls suggest will be close.
Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro leaves the Federal Police headquarters where his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, is being held, in Brasilia, on Nov. 25, 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 11, 2026
Family name fuels Bolsonaro scion’s rise in Brazil election polls
Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of Brazil’s former president, is seeing a surge in support in opinion polls ahead of the country’s October elections.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets the crowd at a campaign rally in Guanare, Venezuela, on July 17, 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 25, 2025
Latin America’s new birth of democracy
First in Peru and Ecuador, and now in Bolivia, people are waking up to their populist rulers’ lies and misdeeds.
Brazilian Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia on Nov. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 6, 2025
Bolsonaro’s son touts father’s backing for 2026 Brazil presidential run
The senator wrote on social media that his father had chosen him for “the mission of carrying on our project for the nation.”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at his party’s headquarters in Brasília on Jan. 14
WORLD / Politics
Nov 26, 2025
Ex-President Bolsonaro starts serving 27-year sentence for Brazil coup plot
The Supreme Court formally concluded the case against Bolsonaro on Tuesday, making his conviction final.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2024. Bolsonaro, sentenced last September but not yet serving his term, was taken into police custody on Nov. 22.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 24, 2025
Bolsonaro says medications made him tamper with tracking device, triggering detention
A Brazil judge ordered Bolsonaro’s detention on Saturday, after more than 100 days of house arrest, citing potential flight risk.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to reporters in Brasilia in July.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2025
Brazil’s Bolsonaro detained for trying to break ankle bracelet and flee
In a video made public by the court, Bolsonaro admitted that he had used a soldering iron on the monitoring bracelet out of ‘curiosity.’
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2025
Lawyers for Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro request shorter sentence in coup plot
Last month, four of the five judges on a Supreme Court panel voted to convict Bolsonaro of five crimes.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the White House in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Trump seems to turn page on Bolsonaro in ‘very good’ Lula call
In a 30-minute conversation, the two leaders discussed lifting trade levies and U.S. sanctions on Brazilian officials, without mentioning former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Demonstrators protest against a constitutional amendment requiring criminal charges against lawmakers to first get congressional authorization, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025
Brazilians protest efforts to shield Bolsonaro and lawmakers from courts
The protest follows the ex-president’s conviction this month for a coup plot following his 2022 election defeat.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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