The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent an official plane to evacuate people from the Gaza Strip who had even remote connection or relatives in Brazil.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado held an overwhelming lead in the vote count on Monday evening for the South American country's opposition presidential primary with 92.56% support, according to opposition officials. Nearly 65% of ballot boxes have been counted, they added. Machado declared victory overnight after an initial count of about a fourth of the ballots cast in the Sunday contest showed she had won by a similar margin.