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Brazil's Rousseff Wins Narrow Re-Election

Brazil's Rousseff Wins Narrow Re-Election

<p> <b>Top news: </b>Brazilians narrowly <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm1A9199 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">re-elected</a> President Dilma Rousseff to a second term with a narrow margin following a fierce and unpredictable campaign season. Rousseff's 51.6 percent victory against center-right candidate Aécio Neves is a triumph for her left-wing Workers' Party and its popular social welfare policies and proven record of reducing poverty in Latin America's largest country. But the close race divided the country along class and geographical lines, with poor Brazilians overwhelmingly backing Rousseff and the wealthy supporting Neves. </p><br><p> In her victory speech Rousseff thanked her predecessor, Lula Ignacio de Silva, who tapped her to run in 2010. Many believe Silva will stand for a third term in four years. Rousseff also <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm2Adaec style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">promised</a> to fight corruption and introduce reforms. Foreign investors and Brazil's business community have generally <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm3Af8fc style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">disapproved</a> of how Rousseff and Silva's party has handled the economy. Neves promised to bring pro-market reforms to Brazil. However, as Michael Shifter <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm4A5b51 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">wrote</a> in Foreign Policy recently, there may have been less distance between Rousseff and Neves than many were led to believe. </p><br><p> <b>Ukraine: </b>Early results suggest that pro-Western political parties, including President Petro Poroshenko's, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm5A925f style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">dominated</a> Ukraine's parliamentary election. A victory for the pro-West, pro-reform parties will likely push Ukraine further toward Europe and away from Russia. Ukrainian voters also appear to want an end to the months-long separatist conflict in the country's east that has left thousands of people dead. But Poroshenko and the other pro-Western parties face numerous challenges putting the country back together. </p><br>

Asia

<ul><p> • American and British combat operations formally <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE43TMPorzy8QU1YA21a9 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">came</a> to an end in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. The withdrawal of British troops marked the end of the U.K.'s 13-year-long commitment to the war in Afghanistan. </p><br> <p> • The head of the Chinese Communist Party's anti-corruption commission <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm6A6c16 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a> that the party's crackdown on graft would continue indefinitely. </p><br> <p> • South Korean prosecutors will <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm7Af654 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">seek</a> the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people. </p><br> </ul>
Africa

<ul><p> • Samantha Power, the United States' ambassador to the United Nations, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm8Afe2a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">condemned</a> the global response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa while on a visit to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, the three countries hardest hit by the virus. </p><br> <p> • Suspected Boko Haram militants <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm9Af2f6 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">abducted</a> some 30 children in northeastern Nigeria, despite claims from the government in Abuja that a truce has been reached with the extremist group. </p><br> <p> • The captain of South Africa's national soccer team was <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vm_Ab89e style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">shot</a> and killed in what appears to be a botched robbery. His murder highlights the rising crime rate in South Africa. </p><br> </ul>
Americas

<ul><p> • The Mexican state of Guerrero <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnAAac68 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">appointed</a> an interim governor following the resignation of the previous governor due to a crisis over the disappearance of 43 students who clashed with police over a month ago. </p><br> <p> • Canadian law enforcement authorities <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnBAf905 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">said</a> they have a video made by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau days before he launched his deadly attack on the Parliament that left one soldier dead. The video demonstrates that Zehaf-Bibeau was motivated by ideology, according to Canadian authorities. </p><br> <p> • New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnCA9745 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">relaxed</a> a quarantine that his office put in place on health workers returning from West Africa. The strict quarantine, intended to stop the spread of the Ebola virus, was criticized as excessively stringent. </p><br> </ul>
Europe

<ul><p> • Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to a group of foreign policy experts in Russia, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnDAd38e style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">accused</a> the United States of endangering global security by forcing "unilateral diktat" on the rest of the world. Putin blamed Washington for the recent crisis in Ukraine. </p><br> <p> • Riot police in Cologne, Germany <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnEA79c8 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">clashed</a> with some 2,500 neo-Nazi soccer hooligans who had gathered to protest "against Islamic extremism." At least 13 police were injured. </p><br> <p> • Twenty-four banks <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE43TcPorzy8QU8MAeb1d style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">failed</a> a "stress test" conducted by the European Banking Authority to check their finances. The remainder of the 123 banks passed the test, however. </p><br> </ul>
Middle East

<ul><p> • Tunisians <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnFA836e style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">voted</a> in their country's first parliamentary elections since the revolution began there in 2011. Turnout was estimated at 60 percent. </p><br> <p> • In Yemen, Shiite Houthi fighters, alongside government forces, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45acPoUmX2-vnGAea88 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">pushed</a> into Sunni areas controlled by al Qaeda affiliates. At least 10 civilians were killed. </p><br> <p> • Kurdish forces near the strategic Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71xnzy.zfo/VE45asPoUmX2-vnHA17ae style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">pushed</a> back Islamic State fighters. An estimated 815 people have died in the battle for the town. </p><br> </ul>
- By Max Strasser

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