Brazil entered a new era yesterday after electing its next president, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman who vowed a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country.

Americans witnessed a series of crimes and violent acts past week. A white man with a history of violence shot and killed two African-Americans at a Kentucky Kroger store following a failed attempt to barge into a black church.

Brazil began voting yesterday in a divisive presidential run-off election whose front-runner, far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, is vowing to rescue the country from crisis with a firm grip. Bolsonaro faces leftist Fernando Haddad, a former Sao Paulo mayor, who is trailing Bolsonaro by at least 10 points margin. The results are expected around 2300 GMT.

A Florida fan of Donald Trump was arrested and charged Friday with mailing 13 bombs to opponents of the US president in a brazen, week-long spree that inflamed the country ahead of key elections.

A gunman opened fire on Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh yesterday, leaving 11 people dead according to US media, in what appeared to be one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks in American history.

Facebook on Friday said it had taken down accounts linked to an Iranian effort to influence US and British politics with messages about

US President Donald Trump says he is watching developments in a shooting incident in Pittsburgh where it looked like there were "multiple fatalities."

US President Donald Trump complains that Twitter is removing some of his followers and has made it harder to join, an apparent critique of the social network's efforts to weed out fake and abusive accounts.

The White House has formally invited President Vladimir Putin to Washington, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said yesterday, returning to an idea that was put on hold in July amid anger in the US over the prospect of such a summit.

The US government yesterday announced a suspect had been arrested in connection with 12 suspicious packages and pipe bombs sent to critics of Donald Trump in a days-long spree that has inflamed the United States ahead of key midterm elections.

Federal agents search a US mail facility near Miami racing to find who sent 10 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of US President Donald Trump as leads pointed to Florida as the possible origin of the packages.

The eldest son of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi arrives in Washington with his family from Saudi Arabia, according to two sources close to the family, after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushes for his return.

Chinese spies often eavesdrop on President Donald Trump when he uses his unsecure cellphone to gossip with old friends, and Beijing uses what it learns to try to sway US policy, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing current and former US officials.

Former US vice president Joe Biden and Hollywood megastar Robert De Niro were the latest targets yesterday of a spree of suspicious packages and pipe bombs sent to opponents of Donald Trump as the US president lashed out at the media for stirring up "anger."

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday renewed calls on Pakistan to curb extremists fighting in Afghanistan, saying Washington was holding its uneasy war partner accountable.

A single winning ticket has been identified in the record-setting $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot, organizers said yesterday.

Washington will press ahead with a plan to quit a landmark nuclear arms control pact despite objections from Russia and some European countries, senior US official John Bolton said on Tuesday, after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Federal authorities are investigating suspicious packages sent to former US President Barack Obama and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the US Secret Service and a person familiar with the matter said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia's crown prince yesterday denounced the "painful" murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and vowed justice would prevail, in his first public comments on the case, without addressing US accusations of a monumental cover-up.

A severe viral outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation center for “medically fragile children” has left six youngsters dead and 12 others sick, the state Health Department said Tuesday.