Early exit polling and results show incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc in a near neck-and-neck race with the opposition, with neither group securing enough seats to form government.
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The intervention by GoldBod in the foreign exchange market in the last three weeks has given the cedi a modest reprieve. As part of its October 2026 programme, GoldBod planned to supply US$1 billion to commercial banks and provide an additional US$500 million to the Bank of Ghana for reserve accumulation.
Governor Dauda Lawal and 19 other governorship candidates would scramble for 2.3 million votes in the February 2027 governorship election in Zamfara state. The Zamfara INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mahmuda Isah, disclosed this during the election stakeholders’ meeting on the 2027 general elections and PVC collection on Wednesday in Gusau, Zamfara.
Failed presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has fled Brazil for the United States, which has confirmed it will grant him and his family entry visas.
Rock veteran Neil Young has filed a $10m lawsuit against a fundraising committee supporting US President Donald Trump, citing the “unauthorised” use of his 1989 song Rockin’ in the Free World. Through his company, Silver Fiddle Music, Young alleges the song was played without a license or Young’s permission at a political event in Youngstown, Ohio, on 12 October.
Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived in the US, hours after Brazil cancelled his passports, sources have told the BBC. Sources told BBC Brasil and BBC Mundo that Bolsonaro met with his younger brother, Eduardo, in Florida – though his exact travel route from Brazil to the US is unclear.
Naomi Osaka says she is “not far off” the form that brought her four Grand Slam titles, but admits she has thought about quitting and often ponders her future. Osaka is on the opposite side of the draw in Tokyo from Kazakhstan’s world number one, Rybakina, who enters the tournament after winning her fourth title of the year at the Ningbo Open in China.
Former world number one Venus Williams lost her 16th straight singles match, beaten by an opponent 28 years younger at the Guangzhou Open. Williams won six of her Grand Slam singles titles – plus 30 WTA tournaments – before Austria’s Tagger was born in February 2008.
Former NDC MP for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, has warned that the rising cost of politics is shutting women and young people out of public life. Mr Fuseini said the recommendations would undergo further scrutiny before being presented to a special congress for constitutional amendments.
Brazilian politician Flavio Bolsonaro left his country on Tuesday for the United States, US media reported, after he refused to accept defeat in the presidential runoff election held over the weekend. Bolsonaro, who faces multiple legal challenges, had his passports cancelled but had not surrendered the documents as of Tuesday afternoon.
Former Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lacks a clear constitutional mechanism to punish electoral inducement, leaving disciplinary action open to challenge. He explained that the constitution did not expressly empower the Functional Executive Committee (FEC), National Executive Committee or Council of Elders to address such cases.
Defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil and is traveling to the United States despite a court order banning him from exiting the country, US media reported Tuesday. US President Donald Trump, a close ally of Jair Bolsonaro, on Monday said Brazil’s elections were “rigged” following the defeat of Bolsonaro junior.
The Federal Government has approved a ₦70,000 transport intervention for workers across all levels for six months, beginning in November 2026, following a conciliation meeting with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The resolutions were contained in a press statement issued by the Ministry of Labour and Employment after the meeting, which was chaired by the Minister, Dr Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, with NLC President Joe Ajaero leading the labour delegation.
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