1 UNITED STATES
Clinton recalls 9/11 unity as she warns of extremism
Hillary Clinton seized the opportunity presented by Sunday’s 21st anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington to make a thinly-veiled attack on the extremism and divisiveness stoked by Donald Trump, as she called for a return to national unity.
The former US secretary of state and first lady invoked the bipartisan mood of the country in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. “We were able to come together as a country at that terrible time, we put aside differences. I wish we could find ways of doing that again,” she told CNN in an interview for the State of the Union politics show.
Clinton’s lament for the passing of such national togetherness then led her to make an impassioned attack on the turn towards extremism in American politics, albeit without mentioning Trump, the former Republican president who may yet run again in 2024, by name. She said that 9/11 reminded Americans “about how impossible it is to try and deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals”.
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2 BRAZIL
Lula supporter killed amid rising election tensions
A supporter of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro stabbed to death a backer of leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the latest instance of rising political tensions in the buildup to this year’s election. The violence happened in the west-central state of Mato Grosso, after tempers frayed during an argument over support for the two candidates. Bolsonaro trails Lula in the polls in an election riven by intense polarisation.
According to police, Rafael Silva de Oliveira, 24, killed Benedito Cardoso dos Santos, 42, with a knife. The suspect later confessed and was charged.
In July, a local official from Lula’s Workers’ party was shot dead by
