BRASILIA -- Brazilian incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, candidate of the ruling Workers' Party, won Sunday's presidential runoff, according to results released by Brazil's Superior Electoral Court on Sunday night.
With 99.99 percent of the votes counted, Lula received 51.79 percent of the valid votes, compared with 48.21 percent for Flavio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate and son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, according to the official tally. (Brazil-election)
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KINSHASA -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded nearly 10,000 confirmed Ebola cases since the outbreak began in May, as deadly attacks on health workers pose further challenges to efforts to contain the epidemic, according to health authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The latest report released Monday by the country's health authorities that the cumulative number of confirmed cases had reached 9,964, including 4,841 deaths, as of Saturday, with a case fatality rate of 48.6 percent. The outbreak has affected 66 health zones across eight of the country's 26 provinces. (DRC-Ebola-Health)
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RAMALLAH -- A total of 488 Palestinian families have been affected by an ongoing Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron since the operation began on Friday, Palestinian official sources said Monday.
In a statement, the Hebron Municipality said Israeli forces had forcibly displaced about 3,171 people from their homes, particularly in the Deir Baha and Al-Jalda areas. Hundreds of residents in nearby neighborhoods remain trapped inside their homes and are being prevented from leaving, it added. (West Bank-Israeli Operation-Displacement)
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CAIRO -- Egypt's parliament on Monday approved authorizing President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to take measures to support Saudi Arabia, according to a statement by the parliament's general secretariat.
The parliament approved the authorization by a two-thirds majority during a plenary session, the statement said. (Egypt-Saudi Arabia-Authorization) ■
