Mounting debt and entrenched structural problems could complicate leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s fourth ​term, which begins in January.

After an evening of chaos at polling booths across Brazil and a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours, the veteran politician has beaten his Trump-backed challenger.

A federal judge in Mexico has ruled that a former state attorney general will face trial after being accused of treason

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street, while oil prices have fallen more than 1%

Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to Serbia's student-backed movement after nearly two years of anti-corruption protests. Sparked by the deadly Novi Sad station canopy collapse, the movement mobilised voters nationwide, defeating his bid to return as prime minister in a snap parliamentary vote.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's return puts her back at the centre of the country's notoriously stormy politics.

The result, which defied all projections, comes as a big relief to critics of widening US influence in Latin America.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that trilateral talks involving the United States, Russia and Ukraine will take place "very soon," signaling renewed diplomatic efforts to address the conflict, while Moscow and Kyiv have outlined their positions on the proposed negotiations.