Overview

• Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize, with the committee citing her role uniting rivals behind free elections and rule of law.
• Reports say Hamas declared a permanent halt to fighting in Gaza and that the ceasefire has begun with forces starting to withdraw, with implementation still unfolding.
• Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Russian forces shot down an Embraer aircraft over Kazakhstan, a rare public admission of responsibility for the deadly crash.
• Brazil’s government suffered defeat on a key tax measure and, after the setback, Lula signaled a new proposal to tax fintechs as earlier warnings included a freeze of up to R$10 billion in congressional earmarks.
• In public safety coverage, authorities reported multiple fatalities in a large Rio police operation, uncovered a clandestine methanol-tainted alcohol site in São Paulo with an arrest, and investigated a deadly restaurant ceiling collapse in São Paulo.