Brazil votes Sunday in a tight first-round contest between President Lula and senator Flavio Bolsonaro, a race analysts say could determine whether Latin America’s largest economy joins the region’s conservative shift and realign its relationship with Washington.

Police divers conducting a routine underwater safety check off Olbia, Sardinia, uncovered ancient Roman terracotta artifacts, including an intact amphora, likely dating to between the 1st century B.C. and 1st century A.D.

US officials say delays from China’s anti-corruption purges and Beijing’s interest in Taiwan’s 2028 election have made an invasion before 2028 increasingly unlikely, despite Xi Jinping’s 2027 military readiness order.

President Lula’s remark that girls learn to “get touched” from a young age has triggered a political firestorm days before Brazil’s October 4 election, with his party saying he meant cancer screening and opponents calling the comments sexist and alarming.

Russia has warned NATO it would consider using nuclear weapons if the alliance tried to isolate the Kaliningrad exclave, a claim NATO has rejected as baseless.

Vietnam says an Australian and a Norwegian citizen were arrested trying to enter the country illegally with forged documents; the pro-democracy group Viet Tan says the two men were instead abducted from Cambodia and now face fabricated terrorism charges.