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Brazil elections: Bolsonaro to face off with Fernando Haddad in second round Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro will face leftist Fernando Haddad in the second round of Brazilʼs presidential election, scheduled for October 28. Bolsonaro got roughly 46 percent of the first-round votes — more than 46 million ballots — while Fernando Haddad from the Workersʼ Party was in second place with just under 29 percent. A candidate needs more than 50 percent to win outright. The first-round results increase the possibility that the ultra-conservative Bolsonaro could become president of Brazil, which has not had a powerful right-wing political force since the end of military rule in 1985. Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has spent the last 27 years as a congressman, has campaigned on promises of cracking down on violence and corruption, but has also included praise for Brazilʼs former military dictatorship, derogatory comments about women and gay people, and wants to fight crime by loosening controls on already deadly police forces.
Spanish court clears ʼbaby-stealingʼ doctor of charges Eduardo Vela, an 85-year-old former gynecologist, was found guilty by a court in Madrid on Monday of having taken Ines Madrigal, now 49, as a newborn baby from her biological mother and given to another woman. The incident allegedly took place in 1969 while he was working at the now-disused San Ramon Clinic in Madrid. Vela,whose trial opened three months ago, was found guilty of falsifying official documents, illegal adoption, unlawful detention and certifying a non-existent birth. Prosecutors had demanded he be jailed for 11 years. However, the court cleared the 85-year-old of the charges because the statute of limitations had expired. Madrigal described the verdict as "bittersweet," and said she planned to appeal it at the Supreme Court.
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China rebukes US during tense Pompeo visit The tense exchange came during a visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences goes to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm has given the 50th Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, both from the US, for "integrating climate change and technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis." The two economists will share the 9 million Swedish kronor ($1.01 million, €860,000) prize. Nordhaus, from Yale University, and Romer, from New York Universityʼs Stern School of Business, were honored for their contribution to what the academy called "some of our timeʼs most fundamental and pressing issues: longterm sustainable growth in the global economy and the welfare of the worldʼs population."
Vaclav Havel Prize goes to jailed Russian activist
Chinaʼs foreign minister has called on the US to stop its "groundless attacks" on the Asian giantʼs global and domestic policies. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a Monday meeting in Beijing that "a shadow has been cast over the future of China-US relations." In a direct response to US Vice PresidentMike Penceʼs attacks on Chinaover military aggression, commercial theft and human rights violations last week, Wang said the US had also "stepped up rhetoric over trade tensions" after severaltariffs were slapped on billions of dollars in mutual trade. He also accused the US of making "a series of moves" onTaiwan and "other issues" that he said hurt Chinese sovereignty."These actions have affected the mutual trust between both sides and have cast a shadow over the prospect of China-US relations, which completely go against the interest of our two peoples," Wang said. "We require that the US stop such misguided actions." China and the US have
also been at odds over trade and Beijingʼs militarization of islands it claims as its own in theSouth China Sea. "On the issues that you characterized, we have fundamental disagreements," Pompeo told Wang. "We have great concerns over the actions that China has taken and I look forward to having the opportunity to discuss each of those today because this is an incredibly important relationship." Read more: US-China trade row: Should American worry? Pompeo also mentioned Beijingʼs cancellation of a meeting between US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Chinese counterpart in Beijing later in October. Pompeo, on the final leg of an Asian trip focused on theNorth Korean nuclear issue, told Yi that "significant progress" had been made during his visit to North Korea toward an agreement that would see Pyongyang give up its nuclear weapons.
The Council of Europe has honored Oyub Titiev with its prestigious annual human rights award. The former head of the Chechnya branch of rights group Memorial has been in prison since January. The sixth annual Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize was awarded to Chechen activist Oyub Titiev on Monday. The prize was handed out in absentia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), as Titiev has been imprisoned since January. Titiev was the head ofthe Memorial Human Rights Centerin Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Memorial has offices throughout the Russian Federation, and works to document the historical wrongs on the Soviet Union, but also to monitorrights abuses in modern Russia and former Soviet states.
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