🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- President Trump makes yet another geopolitically ignorant statement and assumes the Taiwan file's importance is simply its chip industry:

"Look, if we had smart presidents, the Taiwan problem with China wouldn't exist. Nobody would care. They stole our chip business."

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding a strike on Iran before Tuesday’s elections but is currently being refused by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Zamir is demanding evidence and justification for resuming the war with Iran. This is an unprecedented dispute, according to Channel 13.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli security officials are urgently warning that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his leadership could push for a dramatic escalation against Iran in the coming days, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Rerum Novarum assessed the major tensions between Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and IDF officials and military leadership in late September, before any dispute was publicly known.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The left will not eliminate the nuclear weapons, Iran will destroy us." - Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Channel 14.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Polls have closed in Brazil and the first results of the runoff election have come in.

Lula takes an early lead with 57.7% of the vote.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- The Supreme Court has ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting at the request of Lula, who claims that multiple municipalities lack the public transportation to vote in time.

🇷🇸⚡- Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat in Serbia's parliamentary elections.

The Student List has won the elections.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Multiple Brazilian Regional Electoral Courts have rejected Brazil's Supreme Court extension of voting by now.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- The Brazilian Superior Electoral Court has issued a document demanding that the Regional Electoral Courts respect the decision to extend the voting time by 2 hours.

At least five Regional Electoral Courts have refused to apply the Supreme Court's extension of voting so far.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Polls closed in Brazil. Allegedly.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 1.78% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 48.5%
Lula: 51.5%

🇧🇷🗳 - Note: counting in the north-eastern regions seems way faster than the reported pace during the first round. It is unsure if all polling stations remain open in all regions at this time.

🇧🇷🗳 - For example, the left-leaning region of Paraiba has already reported 14% of its votes, while the right-leaning region of Sao Paulo has only reported 0.05% of its votes.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 4.68% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 48.81%
Lula: 51.19%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 7.28% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 49.2%
Lula: 50.8%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 9.98% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 49.52%
Lula: 50.48%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- Regions of Amazonas and Tocantins surprisingly flipped in favor of Bolsonaro, at 37.8% and 59.1% votes reported.

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 12.90% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 49.8%
Lula: 50.20%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- BREAKING: At 13.65% counted, Flavio Bolsonaro takes the lead

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.01%
Lula: 49.99%

🇧🇷🗳⚡️- At 16.38% counted:

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.21%
Lula: 49.79%