Lula da Silva wins Brazil's presidential election

Lula da Silva is the first Brazilian to win the presidency four times -- and the first to win a run-off vote after coming second in the initial round. The right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro by more than four million votes. The eighty-year old left-wing leader told cheering supporters that Brazilians had voted to 'guarantee democracy'. But Mr Bolsonaro has refused to concede and says his lawyers will seek to have the result annulled.

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(Photo: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Workers' Party (PT) candidate for re-election, holds his hands up; Credit: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters)