The Brief

Brazil's electoral court declared incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of Sunday's presidential runoff. With 100% of the vote counted, he held a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over Flávio Bolsonaro, according to PBS NewsHour. Lula had trailed Bolsonaro in the first round, the BBC reports.

Bolsonaro refused to concede and asked for the results to be annulled, following an evening of disorder at some polling places after a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours. Al Jazeera reports the Brazilian real fell sharply on investor concern over spending and fiscal challenges.

PBS NewsHour reports President Trump called the outcome "rigged." Al Jazeera reports Bolsonaro posted a video saying police ordered him to surrender his passports.

Aleksandar Vučić, the Putin-endorsed leader who held near-absolute power in Serbia for years, conceded that his party lost the parliamentary elections to a student-led protest movement. He had denounced the movement as a foreign-led attempt to unseat him.

PBS NewsHour reports that Vučić blamed his defeat on foreign interference. NPR describes the result as ending more than a decade of dominance by the populist leader, and Al Jazeera notes it is unclear who will be prime minister or when a government will be formed.

Israel holds its first parliamentary election since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Tuesday. CBS News reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is lagging in the polls, and NPR describes a center-right former general as the main challenger.

Ahead of the vote, the Israeli military is closing West Bank crossings in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three. PBS NewsHour reports the operation is focused on Hebron, the site of Friday's attack, and that Netanyahu denies allegations he is escalating tensions with Iran before the vote.

Iran says indirect negotiations with the U.S. continue but rules out bending to President Trump's demands, even if he orders new strikes, CBS News reports. Trump has said he is deciding between an agreement and action to "finish them off." PBS NewsHour reports a third aircraft carrier and thousands of troops are heading to the region, eight months after the war began.

Delegations, including members of a Mecca-based defence alliance, have arrived in Tehran for security talks, with Al Jazeera reporting a focus on Yemen and Houthi advances. UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned of devastating consequences from any military escalation in the Gulf.

Jordan says security forces arrested three men on Monday in connection with an attack on a Greek Orthodox church that killed nine people and wounded more than two dozen, according to CBS News. Al Jazeera, which places the attack in Karak, reports a toll of eight dead and says the three arrested are relatives.

Al Jazeera later reported that Jordan's air force carried out strikes in southern Syria in response to the attack, hitting two provinces and killing at least seven people. Syria denied prior coordination with Jordan.

A church official says more than 60 Christians were killed in what he described as a massacre in Ethiopia.

One resident, whose 75-year-old father was killed, described the attack to the BBC as an ambush in which they were surrounded.