Mario Nawfal

🇧🇷 Controversies are intensifying in the final hours of Brazil's presidential election, with Lula facing questions over welfare payments, financial transparency and allegations involving social media platforms. Lula agreed to disclose their financial and telephone records, including information involving family members and associated businesses. However, none of them have been made public. Meanwhile, his government increased payments under Bolsa Família, Brazil's welfare program for low-income families, by 15%, raising the minimum monthly benefit from R$600 to R$691 just days before the election. The timing has drawn scrutiny, particularly after documents showed the proposal was formally submitted to the presidency only one day before the increase was announced in September. Brazil's electoral court has also ordered Meta to explain how political content is distributed following accusations that the platform may have not acted impartially towards the candidates. Meta denies favoring either candidate, while Bolsonaro's campaign has raised complaints about content supporting Lula. Source: CNN Brasil / Writer: Mhedi

One wrong move and you're toast ☠️ Writer: Ian t.co/pgudM05646

🇫🇮 They decided harassing and threatening a man minding his own business in a mall was a great way to blow off steam Of course, they had ZERO FEAR of any consequences. This is what happens when the law loses its teeth, and the woke convince you to part ways with common sense. Writer: Mhedi t.co/Zei7Wmp8iQ

🇧🇷 This election simulator is predicting a WIN for Flávio Bolsonaro in today's presidential runoff in Brazil It claims he will get 52.3% of the votes cast, compared to Lula's 47.7%, with a ±1.0% margin of error The projection is based on published polling aggregates to simulate the final outcome Writer: Ian t.co/I6RY1GIlqK

There are lucky escapes... Then there's this Writer: Ian t.co/bPWiIUa40g

🇺🇸 Trump is reportedly considering sweeping preemptive pardons for thousands of administration staffers ahead of the midterms. The proposal comes due to rising concerns that Democrats would launch investigations against him if they regain control of Congress. White House attorneys are now said to be exploring protections for officials involved in Trump's immigration, trade and military policies, shielding them from potential legal battles. Trump says he hasn't seriously considered the proposal but insists he has the constitutional authority to issue such pardons. In a statement of the matter, he said, “I certainly don't want to see innocent people go through hell and lose all their money." Source: Daily Mail / Writer: Mhedi

🇧🇷 Brazilians are heading to the polls today for an extremely close presidential race between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro. The latest polls show the two candidates virtually tied, although Bolsonaro finished ahead in the first round earlier this month. Lula, 80, is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term, while Flávio, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, is campaigning to return the country's right wing to power. Both candidates made their final campaign appearances yesterday, with Lula rallying supporters in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, addressed a MASSIVE crowd of supporters in Belo Horizonte, in the crucial state of Minas Gerais, before heading to Rio. Source: Sky News / Writer: Mhedi t.co/144HW6SBe1

Somehow he managed to tackle himself 🤣 Writer: Ian t.co/tzaTbxhgD5

🇺🇸 Welcome to 2026, where your next-door neighbour is just as likely to steal your water (or record you doing it) as they are to invite you over for a cup of tea! 😂 Writer: Mhedi t.co/HhPLMjObtX

🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey is being accused of “political malpractice” after an intern job posting said they’ll basically hire anyone who isn’t an old, rich white man. An essay published in ‘The Atlantic’ said it was an open violation of civil rights law and wants the DOJ to look into federal charges. So, they want to lock him up for doing what Democrats do? This is getting a bit too petty at this point! Source: Fox News / Writer: Jamie

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Missile alerts have been issued in Khamis Mushait, home to King Khalid Air Base in southwest Saudi Arabia, believed to be caused by a Houthi missile launch No updates yet on whether it's been intercepted, but this follows a similar attack yesterday that was intercepted Source: War Front Witness on Telegram / Writer: Ian

In the Philippines, they've taken motorbike modding to a whole new level Up to 12 passengers? Yep Space for luggage? Yep Crash test rating? Not so good Writer: Ian t.co/ZYgOmELbjl

This is the wildest fight I've ever seen How the hell did that guy's pants come down, yet he carries on throwing hands? Insane Writer: Ian t.co/w4StKaBP9Q

🇧🇷 Councilwoman Iara Pimentel, from Lula's PT party, was hit in the head when her vehicle was attacked with bricks and bottles during a campaign event in Montes Claros, Brazil She was knocked out and taken to hospital Her condition is currently unknown Writer: Ian t.co/nflJfwPkAK

This train wasn't stopping for the crane that had fallen onto the tracks Brazil is wild Writer: Ian t.co/j2IssuyC3U

Tesla is building Megapacks as fast as humanly possible. That's exactly what the AI boom needs. Demand is through the roof, with almost all of 2027's production already sold out. The reason? AI data centres are hungry for electricity, and these giant batteries help keep the power steady when demand spikes. Tesla is ramping production to get more energy storage where it's needed, as quickly as possible. The AI industry wants more power. Tesla is working flat out to deliver it. @Tesla @TeslaEnergy / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

This is what modern warfare looks like now... Taking out drones with big sticks Writer: Ian t.co/NfUIBKVLv9

“When you’re hard, life gets soft!” OKAY! Now, I’m gonna have to watch “The Experts”. The teasers are fucking hilarious, and if you’re into shows like “The Office” and “Parks and Rec,” you'll probably like it. The comedy comes from the spot-on accuracy. We all know that guy! Source: @TheExpertsHQ (YT) / Writer: Jamie

Even in the 21st century, we're still fighting wars from trenches Writer: Ian t.co/vIbiL0YGf8

🇺🇸 NEW drug combo cuts the risk of dying by 58% in AGGRESSIVE lung cancers cases. Amgen’s drug Imdelltra was added to AstraZeneca’s drug Imfinzi. The patients had small cell lung cancer that had already spread beyond the lung. Half the patients on the combo lived at least 21 months. With Imfinzi alone, it was under 13. Nearly 80% were alive after one year. Without Imdelltra, it was 53%. It worked even when the cancer had spread to the brain or liver. That’s usually the worst news in this disease. About 31,000 Americans get this cancer every year. But these are early results. Everyone in the trial had already been through chemo with no sign of the cancer growing. Amgen says this could almost turn the cancer into something people live with for years. Investors noticed too, with Imdelltra sales up 115% in a year. Source: CNBC / Writer: Bri

🇧🇴Built like a TANK to deliver high speed healthcare on the toughest roads on earth When standard medics can't reach the mountains, you send in the steel fleet. Bolivia has levelled up 🔥 Source: @itsjacksworld / Writer: Bri t.co/BihNwI7o6H

🔥I walk significantly faster than everyone because I have places to go and people to see! PERIOD. Now GTFO the way! 🏃🏻 Writer: Jamie t.co/r6pe4NPoG5

🇺🇸 That pool is so white it could host a Diddy party and get a country club membership! Writer: Jamie t.co/jVJ8qG40Fz

🇨🇳 🇯🇵 China is already halfway through its own version of Japan’s lost decades, just without the crash that would make everyone notice. Monetary analyst Jeffrey Snider says every five year plan out of Beijing boils down to one question: “How do we get from where we are today, which is an economy that’s slowly, slowly being strangled and withering to sometime in the future where we’re leading the fourth Industrial Revolution?” Betting a whole economy on technology that doesn’t exist yet leaves Beijing hoping the future shows up before the bill does. @JeffSnider_EDU

🇺🇸 Am I the only one who had no idea what “Midnight Ballerina” means? She got me with, “I danced full-time up until I was 8 and a half months pregnant!” $20K a month?! Please tell me more about the gender gap and pay equity… Writer: Jamie t.co/y6ZyzjGqjc

🎃🦦🇺🇸 If this isn’t one of the cutest things you’ve seen all weekend, you incapable of being loved by anyone! Writer: Jamie t.co/Twr2tDVrMM

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Riyadh reopened two terminals at its airport Saturday night and the Houthis answered within hours: it's still a target, and anyone who flies from it does so at their own risk That is the shape of this war now. The Houthis hit what Saudi Arabia can't function without, the airport that killed 13 and wounded 300 on Oct. 10, the Aramco tower, the Dammam terminal, and Riyadh answers by trying to break the siege of Taiz and bombing fuel lines in Saada. Reuters has the kingdom betting on a ground counteroffensive after the Houthis grabbed Red Sea coastline last month; the WSJ has IRGC officers sitting in Yemen choosing the Saudi targets. Each side is going after the other's lifeline, and neither has cut it. Here's the problem for Riyadh. A capital whose airport reopens under a standing threat is a capital that has already lost control of its own airspace, and Patriots fired at $20,000 drones are a trade the kingdom cannot keep making with a US stockpile that won't recover before 2030. Britain's Typhoons just deployed to help, and CBS says Washington is only now weighing whether to fly cover for the Saudis. So the real forecast: the Houthis will keep hitting Riyadh's airport until either American jets show up over Saada or Riyadh's own offensive takes the Taiz-Aden road and gives Tehran a reason to stop. The first of those is a decision for Trump, and he's about to spend his carriers on Iran instead. Source: Reuters / WSJ / Writer: Daniel

🌦️🌪️ If you’re tired of all of the videos of humans causing destruction and chaos across the world, fear not! Here’s a video of Mother Nature destroying human shit in the most brutal ways. Writer: Jamie t.co/mi4Xexoa9m

🚨🇮🇱 Tuesday may be the most consequential election in Israel's history, and the 100,000 people in Hostages Square tonight know why: the world has stopped giving Israel the benefit of the doubt The rally was about an inquiry into Oct. 7 that Netanyahu has blocked for three years, and the voices were bereaved fathers and freed hostages. But the subtext in the square was bigger than one commission. It was the sense, said plainly by a first-time voter to AFP, that Israel has to change how the world sees it, and that Tuesday is the last clean chance to do that from the inside. Years of war in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran have done something no enemy managed: they turned ordinary public opinion in Israel's closest ally against it. AIPAC quit endorsing candidates this week because its name costs votes. A Democrat leading the Michigan Senate race calls Israel a friend who takes your money and starts your fights, and his numbers WENT UP. The prime minister is campaigning on finishing Iran "together" with a president at 31% whose own voters are done with the war. Fair or not, that bill doesn't stop at Israel's border. And as unfair as it is... Jews in Paris, London and on American campuses get judged for decisions made in Jerusalem that they had no part in, and they’re the ones who absorb the hostility when Israel’s conduct goes wrong. The world's message has been delivered loudly enough: change how you fight in Gaza, change how you treat Lebanon, change the assumption that Washington will always write the check. A Netanyahu win promises the “job to finish” with Iran and another year of the same verdict from the same crowds abroad, and that verdict falls on Jews who never cast a ballot in Israel. Tuesday is the day Israelis decide what the rest of the Jewish world has to answer for next. Source: Times of Israel / AFP

🇨🇳 Chinese banks have stopped lending and are piling into government bonds instead. Loans have shrunk to record lows this year, and Jeffrey Snider traces the slide back to 2008, when China bet everything on being the factory floor for customers who eventually stopped buying: “It’s no longer just an economic problem in China. It has become a banking problem in China.” Banks that won’t lend are telling you exactly how much they trust the economy around them. @JeffSnider_EDU