The Brief

Exit polls after Israel's first election since the Hamas-led attacks of 2023 show no clear winner. CBS News reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have won fewer votes than his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, but both sides are likely to struggle to assemble a coalition. PBS reports opposition parties won more seats than Netanyahu's coalition but not enough for a majority, which could mean weeks of negotiations. Al Jazeera notes that final results may differ from the exit polls.

Al Jazeera reports Arab parties could win 18 seats, with turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel at around 80 percent, and that exit polls suggest the far-right parties of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich lost support. Eisenkot said millions of Israelis voted for change. President Isaac Herzog is expected to task the candidate he considers best placed to form a government once results are in.

Brazil's electoral court announced that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held an insurmountable lead over Flávio Bolsonaro with all votes counted. Lula, who turns 81 soon, will begin a fourth term as president.

Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger aligned with President Trump, has refused to concede, although NPR reports his party has accepted the defeat. NPR reports Trump called the vote "rigged" without offering evidence. A State Department official told CBS News and PBS that Bolsonaro and his family will receive U.S. visas, and Al Jazeera reports Bolsonaro left Brazil a day after the Supreme Court ordered him to hand over his passports in a money-laundering probe. Lula called his departure "shameful."

A student-backed movement won Serbia's parliamentary election, ending more than a decade of dominance by Aleksandar Vučić. The populist right-wing leader of 12 years said it is "clear" his party lost a vote billed as a referendum on the country's future.

Celebrations followed in the streets as the student movement's supporters marked the result. Al Jazeera reports that protesters later stormed a pro-Vučić TV station, which Vučić called an attack on free speech and the freedom of journalism.

A localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect early Tuesday in Oleshky, a step secured by U.S. first lady Melania Trump. It is meant to allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians. BBC reports the truce has been extended across Ukraine's Kherson region, and that Russia and Ukraine say no breaches have been reported.

Russia had said it would open a humanitarian corridor to the town, where residents trapped by minefields, shelling and drones have been eating weeds and pickles to survive. NPR reports missile attacks resumed in Kyiv. Al Jazeera reports Russia struck Kyiv multiple times Monday night, hours before the ceasefire took effect, and that strikes hit a major bridge in the capital. Al Jazeera also notes competing claims over who brokered the truce, with the Vatican among those mentioned.

A drone strike killed at least 21 people and injured 40 in Nyala, in the Darfur region. A resident said the attack hit a market in the north of the city on Monday evening.

Separately, the US, the EU and 30 other countries warned of a famine risk in Sudan and called for aid, urging the warring parties to lift all impediments on humanitarian assistance. BBC reports millions face acute hunger as conflict, drought and funding cuts aggravate the crisis.

NPR reports that the current Ebola outbreak, first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now counted 10,000 patients, a grim milestone in an outbreak NPR describes as record-breaking.

NPR says the outbreak has spread with great speed and examines how it might be stopped.