: Brazil's workers' party leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defied all odds to become the first president to win the second round of elections after losing in primaries. Though his adversary has failed to acknowledge defeat, EU leaders and pro-democracy groups expressed relief at the unexpected
: While US secretary of state Marco Rubio publicly echoes Vladimir Putin’s inflated claims about Russian gains in Donetsk, Ukrainian crews on the ground are using scarce drones to snatch back their own wounded from territory Moscow says it
: The impact of the EU's new pact on migration and asylum is clearly visible from an Italian port quay on the day of a migrant disembarkation. First touching land after having survived a sail aboard an overcrowded dinghy in a storm, 28 migrants were trooped through a sped-up "tick-boxing" screening, which experts worry will not accurately measure the vulnerabilities they're up