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Author: bbc.co.ukPublished on: October 25, 2026Country: International

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The BBC News homepage features several international stories, including Brazil’s presidential run-off between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Other headlines cover SpaceX restoring Starlink service in Ukraine after restrictions, elections in Serbia and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s return to the country. The page also reports a deadly shooting in a Paris suburb, a tragedy in the Bahamas and deadly attacks in north-east Nigeria.

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