Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after defeat in Brazil's presidential election

🔮 - Published With less than a week to go until the US midterm elections, which will determine which party controls Congress for the next two years, more than 43 million Americans have already voted.

🔮 The US has said it would grant visas to Bolsonaro and his family, who travelled with him.

🔮 "With every case closure may we stomp the memory of Ted Bundy out," he said.

🔮 Democrats are also aggressively hitting the campaign trail, with close elections taking place on 3 November which will decide which party controls Congress for the rest of Trump's presidency.

🔮 Later, he will appear in Michigan to push for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

🔮 Their attorney Daniel Weiner said in a statement to the BBC that, "they are confident that they will prevail on the claims asserted against them".

🔮 His lawyer added he had received death threats since his arrest. Testifying in his defence, Fairbarn, 34, said he thought it would be "funny" to take the bird.

🔮 It comes days after Trump said the US would import Russian diesel in an effort to bring down US energy prices before the midterm elections in November, which will decide which party controls Congress.

🔮 But when the Canadian government rejected its plan to sell them to China over concerns about animal welfare, the park's operations said they would have to be euthanised.

🔮 "We ask the President, our Congressional representatives, and our fellow citizens to act to prevent this barbaric abuse of authority," they wrote in a letter where they also argued the livestream would turn the mass killer into a "martyr".

🔮 The Carter Center, which had sent independent observers to Venezuela, also said that the election "could not be considered democratic".

🔮 In the letter, he alleges, without offering evidence, that he was the victim of "electoral fraud" and says that he will lead the opposition from the US.

🔮 The US has said it would grant visas to Bolsonaro and his family, who travelled with him.

🔮 His passports were cancelled on Tuesday after he missed a deadline to hand them over to authorities, prompting widespread speculation that he may have left Brazil.

🔮 But the showdown was marked by personal attacks and analysts have warned that its aggressive tone may increase the abstention rate further.

🔮 - Published Brazil's Congress has approved a constitutional amendment that will cut the working week from 44 hours to 40 and give employees two days off per week without cutting their salary.

🔮 The incumbent, veteran left-wing leader Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, will be challenged by 11 candidates, the most prominent of whom is right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro.

🔮 - Published People living on the northern Pacific coast of Mexico are bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Polo, which is forecast to make landfall later on Monday or early on Tuesday. The category three storm, with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph (185 km/h), is expected to move over the state Baja California Sur, a region popular with tourists and home to the resort destination of Los Cabos. Meteorologists at the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) have warned of heavy rainfall which could lead to life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in areas of steep terrain. Residents on Sunday stocked up on essentials such as drinking water and food as the storm approached.

🔮 More than three million people live in Sinaloa and many say that the war between the two rival factions - known as Los Chapitos and La Mayiza - has blighted their lives.

🔮 - Published The Argentine government has said that it would file criminal charges against oil company Navitas Petroleum for operating in seas off the Falkland Islands.

🔮 Facing voter frustration over rising prices, particularly fuel, Trump sought to tamp down such concerns and shift focus on attacking Democrats, saying they would "bankrupt" families if elected.

🔮 The US has said it would grant visas to Bolsonaro and his family, who travelled with him.

🔮 - Published "Brazil will not accept being anyone's backyard," Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared in his election victory speech, a message squarely aimed at Washington.

🔮 Bolsonaro's supporters were jubilant at his final campaign rallies, confident that he would bring change to Brazil through his promised tough crackdown on organised crime, as well as tax and public spending cuts.

🔮 "A lot of people didn't vote, they thought it wouldn't change anything," says one supporter, Leila.

🔮 On 25 October, Lula will face Bolsonaro's son Flavio in the run-off, with polls suggesting a neck-and-neck race.

🔮 Meyer said he would like to have a conversation with Trump about the reality of the situation, saying that as a "born Afrikaner", he has the "legitimacy" to speak about the subject.

🔮 In the off-the-cuff moment, he said as a "special treat" the Chinese leader and his wife could be the first to enter the ballroom, which is still a year away from completion.

🔮 - Published Warning: This story contains distressing details and discussion of attempted suicide A Massachusetts judge has declared a mistrial in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy after jurors conceded they would not be able to unanimously decide whether she should be held criminally liable for killing her three young children after a week of deliberating.