В Бразилии прошел первый тур президентских выборов: действующий президент Луис Инасиу Lula da Silva получил около 45% голосов и уступил бразильскому сенатору Flavio Bolsonaro, сыну бывшего президента Жаира Bolsonaro, у которого около 47%. Второй тур назначен на 25 октября; для победы кандидату нужно набрать не менее 50% голосов.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday signed a provisional decree that bans online betting and online casinos. For it to remain in force, Congress must approve the document within 120 days; the measure was announced a little more than a week before the first round of the presidential election.

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Nucor Corp., the largest steel producer in North America, imported at least 18 shipments of pig iron from six Brazilian suppliers over three years. These shipments accounted for about 5% of the company’s average annual pig iron purchases; Bloomberg writes that Brazilian authorities linked the suppliers to charcoal purchases in camps where working conditions fall under the local definition of modern slavery.

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The Brazilian National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) fired Russian mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky on August 26 after the administration became aware of his blog posts. This is stated in a letter from the institute’s director, Marcelo Viana, from Brazil.

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