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      <title>Israel's opposition leaders agree to pick next prime minister only after election</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Five Jewish opposition leaders met at Yair Lapid's home on Saturday evening and signed a joint declaration agreeing to decide their candidate for prime minister only after the election, and to refrain from attacking one another during the campaign.</description>
      <author>Sarah Whitfield</author>
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      <title>Lula bans online betting in Brazil days before election</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Brazil's President Lula signed an executive order banning online betting nine days before the Oct 4 election, pairing it with a household debt relief plan as polls show a tight race against Flavio Bolsonaro.</description>
      <author>Sarah Whitfield</author>
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      <source url="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-bans-online-betting-operations-reelection-race-tightens-2026-09-25/">Reuters</source>
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      <title>Healey appoints manifesto writer Ravinder Athwal as senior adviser, fuelling election speculation</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>John Healey has poached Ravinder Athwal, the economist behind Labour's 2024 manifesto, as his senior special adviser ahead of the October budget — a move the Guardian says is likely to fuel talk of an early general election.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
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      <title>Israel's elections committee votes to bar both main Arab-led lists from October election</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to disqualify Ra'am and the Joint List from next month's election, putting Palestinian citizens' representation before the Supreme Court weeks before polling day.</description>
      <author>Sarah Whitfield</author>
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      <source url="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/israel-moves-to-bar-both-main-arab-lists-from-october-election">Al Jazeera</source>
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