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Brazil's electoral court calls the run-off for Lula just after our window closes, and Flávio Bolsonaro says he will call for it to be annulled
On Sunday 25 October Brazilians voted in the presidential run-off between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, who had come top in the first round on 4 October (BBC). Brazil has 212.0 million people (World Bank, 2024). The result came after our window had closed: Al Jazeera's live page reports that the Superior Electoral Court called the race for Lula at about 9:13pm Brasília time (00:13 GMT) (Al Jazeera, live page). Nineteen independent reports from newsrooms based in seven regions carried the story in our sources.
Sunday, before the polls closed. Lula said on Sunday that many people had been "barred from voting" because buses were taken off the roads, and that 40 per cent of buses had been pulled in São Paulo; the president of the Superior Electoral Court, Kassio Nunes, said there were transport difficulties in some places that were "already being resolved" (Express Tribune). A Bahia court ordered the arrest of a transport official: Reuters says a senior official in Salvador, over an alleged cut to the city's bus fleet; the Express Tribune says the local transport secretary, for failing to offer free transport (The Straits Times, carrying Reuters; Express Tribune). France 24's live page reports that at around 5pm Brasília time (8pm GMT), when polls were due to close, Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin extended voting by two hours, to 7pm (10pm GMT), granting a request from Lula's campaign; AP says he ruled three minutes before the scheduled end (France 24, live page; PBS, carrying AP). AP and Al Jazeera say both campaigns had asked, and Reuters that Bolsonaro sought extensions in at least three states, citing bad weather (PBS, carrying AP; Al Jazeera, live page; The Straits Times, carrying Reuters). Reuters reports that the electoral court paused the count for two hours (The Straits Times, carrying Reuters).
Sunday evening, the count, and after the window. The stations still open closed at 7pm Brasília time and the count resumed, France 24's live page reports (France 24, live page). Bolsonaro led early in the count: with over 14 per cent of tallies reported he had 50.02 per cent to Lula's 49.98 per cent, according to Reuters (The Straits Times, carrying Reuters). When the court called the race, Al Jazeera reports, Lula had 51 per cent and Bolsonaro 48.68 per cent, as Al Jazeera gives the figures, with more than 80 per cent of ballots counted (Al Jazeera, live page). After our window closed, France 24's live page, last modified on Monday 26 October, gave the court's official count as 51.79 per cent for Lula and 48.21 per cent for Bolsonaro (France 24, live page). AP reports that, also after the window, with 100 per cent counted the court announced a lead for Lula of nearly 4.4 million votes, and calls it a victory "if confirmed by electoral authorities" (PBS, carrying AP). Al Jazeera says no candidate in Brazil's modern history had lost the first round and won the second (Al Jazeera, live page); AP puts it as none since military rule ended in 1985 (PBS, carrying AP).
The Bolsonaro camp. On Sunday, before the result, Bolsonaro's brother Eduardo questioned the Supreme Court's ruling on a YouTube live stream: "It doesn't inspire credibility," he said, according to Reuters (The Straits Times, carrying Reuters). Campaign coordinator Rogerio Marinho called the extension "shameful" and said he hoped no "judicial coup" would succeed; Al Jazeera's live page gives no time for his posts (Al Jazeera, live page). After the result, and so after our window, Al Jazeera's live page reports that Bolsonaro told supporters he would call for the results to be annulled, citing the extension; France 24's live page reports that he spoke briefly in Brasília and said it was difficult to acknowledge the results in the current context (Al Jazeera, live page; France 24, live page). Neither page gives the time of the speech or quotes him directly, and an earlier entry on Al Jazeera's page said he and his camp had yet to offer any official reaction (Al Jazeera, live page). Also after the window, in São Paulo, Lula said he would govern for all Brazilians (Al Jazeera, live page; France 24, live page), and, by Al Jazeera's account, that "Brazil is no one's back yard" (Al Jazeera, live page).
This thread opened in issue four. Issue nine, from headlines only, reported Datafolha's final poll putting the two level at 50 per cent of valid votes each.
Why it matters beyond this week. AP says the result goes against a run of wins in Latin America for right-of-centre candidates allied with Donald Trump, and leaves Mexico and Brazil with left-of-centre leaders (PBS, carrying AP). AP says the extension may lead Bolsonaro to take legal action, and Al Jazeera's correspondent Monica Yanakiew pointed to divisions inside the judiciary, including the Supreme Court (PBS, carrying AP; Al Jazeera, live page).
Congo starts a trial of vaccine candidates against the Bundibugyo virus, and Kenya records a second death
The first participants in a trial of vaccines against Bundibugyo, the Ebola virus behind the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were vaccinated in Bunia, capital of Ituri province, on Friday 23 October, the WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X (Al Jazeera; The Hindu). There is still no approved vaccine against the strain, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said (Realnews Magazine, carrying NAN). The same day Kenya's health ministry announced the country's second Ebola death (Al Jazeera). Newsrooms based in four regions carried the trial in our sources; for Kenya's death the record's region count includes a Kenyan paper placed in North America, so it is not given here. Congo has 109.3 million people and Kenya 56.4 million (World Bank, 2024; World Bank, 2024).
The trial. CEPI calls Tumaini ("hope" in Swahili) a Phase 2/3 trial of the safety, immune response and effectiveness of candidate vaccines, co-led by Congo's Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale and the University of Antwerp's Global Health Institute under Congo's health ministry; CEPI funds it and the WHO advises (NAN). The first vaccine in it is Ervebo, licensed against the Zaire species of Ebola virus, whose effectiveness against Bundibugyo in humans "remains unknown", CEPI said (NAN). Two experimental candidates designed for Bundibugyo, from Moderna and from the University of Oxford with the Serum Institute of India, are expected to join "shortly", CEPI said, or "as they become available" in the version of its statement NAN carries; SCMP writes they could be tested "within weeks" (Al Jazeera; SCMP). CEPI's statement says candidates will be tested by ring vaccination, aimed at the contacts most at risk of infection (NAN); Al Jazeera reports that the trial will include pregnant women and children aged 12 and older (Al Jazeera). None of our sources says how many people it will enrol. Richard Hatchett, CEPI's chief executive, said in an interview reported by SCMP that there was a window to run the trial because the outbreak is "not being brought under control"; SCMP adds that establishing whether Ervebo works will take at least several months, depending mainly on how fast it can enrol enough people exposed to confirmed cases (SCMP).
The count in Congo. The figures differ. CEPI's statement gives 9,552 cases and 4,602 deaths confirmed as of 21 October (NAN). Those are the same figures issue nine reported from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on data to 18 October, and they are lower than the WHO's count dated a day earlier, below; our sources do not explain the difference, and the date in CEPI's statement may be the statement's own rather than the data's. SCMP, citing the WHO, gives 9,704 confirmed cases and 4,687 deaths as of 20 October; Sunday World attributes those figures to Congo's health authorities (SCMP; Sunday World).
Kenya, Friday 23 October. The ministry, in a statement from the director-general for health, Patrick Amoth, said a 65-year-old woman, a close relative of the first patient and Kenya's third confirmed case, died that evening, having developed symptoms in quarantine on 13 October (Daily Nation; Premium Times). It said the other seven of nine confirmed patients were in two isolation facilities and that all cases "remain within one cluster of known contacts, and there is no evidence of community spread" (The Standard). On contacts there are two accounts, each in near-identical words in the outlets that carry it: Al Jazeera and Reuters say all 135 were quarantined, The Hindu and SCMP that 118 of some 135 were (Al Jazeera; The Straits Times, carrying Reuters; The Hindu; SCMP).
The Nigeria link. Nigeria's health minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, said on Friday that the Nigerian patient's infection "appears to be closely related" to that of Kenya's first case, adding that this might or might not change what is understood about how it was transmitted (The Hindu). The BBC reports him saying nothing so far showed the Kenyan patient had been to Nigeria, and that more tests were under way (BBC). The Africa CDC had earlier said both passed through Uganda's Entebbe airport on 3 October; Premium Times reports no direct link has been established (The Hindu; Premium Times). Uganda's health ministry said people who had been to Congo could no longer transit the country; the BBC dates the announcement to Friday, Al Jazeera to Saturday (BBC; Al Jazeera). Uganda has 50.0 million people (World Bank, 2024).
Why it matters beyond this week. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the WHO's emergencies director, said success would give the first clear evidence of a vaccine working against Bundibugyo (The Hindu).
Ukraine says its satellite links stayed capped after Trump said Musk had restored them; Musk says Kyiv broke Starlink's terms
On Friday 23 October Ukrainian defence officials said speed limits on SpaceX's satellite services had not been fully lifted, a day after US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk had "put it back"; on Saturday 24 October Ukraine said speeds were back to normal, and hours later Musk said SpaceX had throttled Starlink because Ukraine's military had broken its terms of service (BBC; Euronews; PBS, carrying AP). Twenty-eight independent reports from newsrooms based in eight regions carried the story in our sources. Ukraine has 37.9 million people (World Bank, 2024).
Which service. Euronews, the BBC's ministry sources, Zelenskyy as TASS quotes him, and France 24 speak of both Starlink and Starshield, the military-grade version; Reuters, in the copy Korea Herald carries, says Starshield (Euronews; BBC; TASS; France 24; Korea Herald, carrying Reuters). Meduza and France 24 say the restrictions were first reported on 14 October, and VnExpress that terminals stopped working above 160 km/h from the night of 13 October (Meduza; France 24; VnExpress, in Vietnamese). Ukraine's defence minister, Yevhenii Khmara, spoke of "Starlink/Starshield" (Euronews). Musk's admission covers only civilian Starlink: he wrote that Starshield "is controlled by the US government", and the BBC says he denied responsibility for the Starshield problem (Al Jazeera; BBC).
Thursday 22 October, before the window. Trump said Starshield was "back", after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had asked Musk to restore it; he would not say who had called whom (The Hindu).
Friday 23 October. Ministry sources told the BBC drones were still losing connection at 161 km/h and that there was "currently no confirmation" the limits had gone (BBC). Serhii Beskrestnov, a defence technology adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote that he saw "no indication that the Starlink restrictions have been lifted" (Euronews; CNBC). Meduza, citing an AP report quoting a senior European official, said the military version was still restricted (Meduza). TASS, in a report dated 23 October that does not say when he spoke, quoted Zelenskyy telling a Hudson Institute audience that Starlink was capped at 161 km/h in both the civilian sector and at the front; TASS calls him "the head of the Kiev regime" and notes the institute is deemed undesirable in Russia (TASS). Trump said that if there was a problem he would get it "straightened out" (BBC). In a call that evening, the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, told him Ukraine needed "full access" to Starlink, his office said (BBC; Anadolu).
Saturday 24 October. Khmara said monitoring showed speeds above 400 km/h and a stable connection, and Zelenskyy said Starlink and Starshield were back at pre-restriction speeds after a restoration that began overnight; France 24 notes the ministry did not say whether service was fully restored (France 24; Al Jazeera). Musk then wrote on X that Ukraine's military had "violated Starlink terms of service" by using it "for offensive drone strikes to kill people", a "loophole" closed the week before (PBS, carrying AP). He added that violations "will result in end of service" (Punch, carrying AFP).
A presidential adviser's answer. The BBC said Kyiv had not officially commented on Musk's claim, nor had the defence ministry (BBC). Beskrestnov wrote that drones on civilian Starlink in Ukraine were already limited to 70-90 km/h and that it does not work over Russia, so Ukraine "physically cannot use commercial Starlink" for deep or medium-range strikes; CNBC dates the post to Sunday, though Al Jazeera quoted it on Saturday 24 October (Al Jazeera; PBS, carrying AP; CNBC). On Sunday Zelenskyy told NBC that SpaceX had acted on a "message from [the] American government", NPR reports (NPR).
Who ordered it. Reports differ: the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk ordered the Starshield slowdown, Reuters that the order came from inside the White House (The Guardian; Korea Herald, carrying Reuters). The Guardian says the Journal's sources disagreed on whether Musk acted together with Trump (The Guardian). Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied administration involvement, while Vice President JD Vance hinted at coordination (PBS, carrying AP). The Japan Times, citing six former senior US officials, reports that the Biden and Trump administrations had earlier asked SpaceX several times to switch Starlink on or off; four said requests during Joe Biden's presidency included cutting it for Iranian proxy militias in Yemen and Lebanon (Japan Times).
Why it matters beyond this week. Euronews says the episode exposed Ukraine's heavy dependence on Starlink; on Thursday, before the window, its defence ministry signed an early-stage letter of intent with ICEYE and Nokia on a sovereign system (Euronews). CNBC notes the European Union does not expect the first launches of its IRIS² constellation until 2029 (CNBC).
Israel orders preparations for a full closure of the West Bank after an attack near Hebron, and families are forced from their homes
On Friday 23 October two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on soldiers at a checkpoint outside Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, and were killed after a firefight the Israeli military told NPR lasted about 20 minutes (NPR). The military said two soldiers were killed and three lightly wounded (PBS NewsHour, carrying AP). Earlier, Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency medical service, said five people were wounded, two of them critically, and Dawn reported that the attack wounded at least five Israelis (Dawn); Al Jazeera reported the ambulance service's initial count as at least five soldiers injured, two of whom later died (Al Jazeera). The same day the office of Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it had instructed security forces to cordon off Hebron immediately and to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank, starting Friday (NPR; PBS NewsHour, carrying AP). The West Bank and Gaza together have 5.3 million people (World Bank, 2024); Israel has 10.0 million (World Bank, 2024). The story reached nineteen independent reports from newsrooms based in eight regions in our sources.
Who ordered what. Netanyahu's statement, as our sources quote it, told forces to "prepare" for a full lockdown (Al Jazeera; NPR). Some outlets summarised that as an order: Al Jazeera in its opening line, and Egypt Independent, carrying CNN, which also says he later appeared to scale back to "a cordon" around Hebron and Halhul (Al Jazeera; Egypt Independent, carrying CNN); Middle East Eye wrote that he ordered preparations for one (Middle East Eye). Netanyahu held an emergency Security Cabinet meeting (NPR) and, in Hebron, said he and Defence Minister Israel Katz were considering an operation on a scale not carried out since the 1967 war (The Straits Times, carrying AFP). Katz said: "The Jenin refugee camp model arrives in Hebron" (The Guardian). Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he had ordered immediate demolitions beside the attack site (The Hindu). Late on Friday the military and Shin Bet announced an operation in the Hebron area expected to last several days, including demolition of what they called illegal structures (The Straits Times, carrying AFP). Then the army said most Palestinian workers would be barred from settlements from Sunday, and all land crossings closed on election day, Tuesday 27 October (BBC; Euronews). The BBC, Al Jazeera and The Hindu date the announcement to Sunday; Middle East Eye, and Al Jazeera's live page carrying the army's post on X, to Saturday; both days are inside the window (BBC; Al Jazeera; The Hindu; Middle East Eye; Al Jazeera, live page). That closure falls after this issue's window.
Hebron. The military said civilians were permitted to leave temporarily through screening points and "no civilians were forced to evacuate" (Euronews). Katz said about 2,000 residents had been displaced (BBC). Palestinian counts differ: the Hebron municipality estimated about 1,500 evicted by Saturday afternoon (The Guardian); the mayor, Yousef al-Ja'bari, said on Saturday that 2,200 had been forced out (Al Jazeera); and the office of the Palestinian prime minister, Mohammad Mustafa, citing municipality data, said on Sunday more than 2,670 (Al Jazeera). Counts of families differ too: the BBC gives the governor's and deputy mayor's figure as at least 200 (BBC); Korea Herald, carrying AFP, has the governor at 150 and the mayor and the activist Issa Amro at 250 (Korea Herald, carrying AFP); a municipality spokesperson told the Guardian about 300 (The Guardian). The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said about 70 people were arrested across the West Bank from Friday to early Saturday (Al Jazeera); the army said it apprehended approximately 40 suspects in 40 areas (Korea Herald, carrying AFP). An entry on Al Jazeera's live page, citing Wafa, reported two people injured on Saturday evening when soldiers assaulted people at checkpoints in Jenin governorate and two more in separate incidents nearby (Al Jazeera, live page). A UN human rights office spokesperson said the lockdown "follows a pattern of collective punishment" (NBC News).
The election. The mayor said the operation was "driven by the elections" (BBC). Danny Citrinowicz of the Institute for National Security Studies told NPR that Netanyahu was taking harsh measures to show he is Israel's protector (NPR); H.A. Hellyer of the Royal United Services Institute told NBC News the link was not clear, though Netanyahu could be showing a "strong arm" before the vote (NBC News).
Why it matters beyond this week. Netanyahu said the larger operation was "on the way", with timing to be set (The Hindu); the BBC said it was unclear whether the Hebron operation is part of it (BBC). Katz said displaced residents would not return until Israel had "finished dealing with all the Hamas issues in Hebron" (Al Jazeera).
Still happening
María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela
María Corina Machado, the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, announced on Sunday 25 October that she was back in Venezuela, writing on X: "I am here. With you." (BBC; Al Jazeera). It was carried by thirty-eight independent reports from newsrooms based in nine regions in our sources. Venezuela has 28.4 million people (World Bank, 2024). Issue eight reported the opposition coalition confirming her as its leader while she was in exile in Panama; issue nine carried this thread on headlines only.
Euronews says she left covertly in December 2025 to receive the prize (Euronews). Most of our sources put her time away at ten months or a little more (Al Jazeera; CNN; NPR); Euronews and the Guardian also call it nearly a year (Euronews; The Guardian).
Lara to Caracas. She first appeared at the Church of Santa Rosa in Barquisimeto, in Lara state, which Clarín calls the sanctuary of the Divine Shepherdess (Divina Pastora); the Guardian uses the sanctuary's name and NPR the church's (Clarín, in Spanish; The Guardian; NPR). The Guardian and the South China Morning Post, in near-identical accounts that SCMP credits to Reuters, say the drive to Caracas took eight hours because of crowds of tens of thousands; NPR reports hundreds swarming her car in the capital (The Guardian; SCMP; NPR). The BBC says she entered Caracas late on Sunday night, local time (BBC); there she shouted: "This country is giving lessons to everyone" (The Guardian).
The authorities. The interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, did not immediately react, Euronews reports (Euronews). CNN reports the National Assembly posting that restored political guarantees must let "all exiles" return (CNN). US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the conditions for her safe return were "the direct result of the U.S. supported reconciliation talks"; President Donald Trump said "I don't know anything about it" and that he hoped she was safe (PBS, carrying AP).
Elections. No date is set; Machado has said a vote should be held by July 2027 (The Straits Times, carrying Reuters). Al Jazeera and CNN report that Rodríguez has promised elections (Al Jazeera; CNN); AP reports that in September, at the UN General Assembly, she said the "right moment" was for Venezuelans to determine, and that Rubio has argued Venezuela must first stabilise its economy and rebuild its institutions (PBS, carrying AP).
The slow story
None in this issue. All eleven indicators on the watchlist were read during this run, and one moved: IOM's count of people recorded dead or missing on migration routes this year, from 4,985 to 5,018 (IOM Missing Migrants Project). The rise of 33 is late entries only. The file's latest incident is still dated 19 October, as it was when issue nine read it. Twelve rows were added, for incidents from 21 August to 19 October, among them seven rows in Djibouti in September recording ten dead and missing, and eleven dead and missing at sea west of Ensenada, in Mexico's Baja California, on 16 October. The Samos sinking of 19 October, where issue nine reported a search for three missing passengers, now records nine dead and missing rather than six (IOM Missing Migrants Project). Issue nine made this indicator its slow story three days ago, and a file filling in behind itself is not a second one. So the slot is empty, which is what the charter asks for, rather than padding it.
Pattern watch
- Brazil's presidential run-off. From issue four. Brazil voted on Sunday 25 October, and the electoral court called the run-off for Lula just after the window closed, while Flávio Bolsonaro's side says it will seek to annul the result; see above. Closed in this issue, because its question, who would win the run-off, is answered; a challenge to the result that reaches the pool would reopen it with its history.
- Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. From issue three. Vaccine trials against the Bundibugyo virus begin in Ituri, and Kenya records a second death; see above.
- Venezuela's transition. From issue two. María Corina Machado's return; see "Still happening".
- Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. From issue one. Seen in headlines only, not read: further Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and Saudi interceptions of drones and a missile, tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz with an oil spill reaching beaches in the United Arab Emirates, and oil prices rising on the attacks.
- Displacement out of Yemen. From issue one. Seen in headlines only, not read: UN agencies warning that aid is blocked from entering Taiz, a hospital there warning of collapse within days under the Houthi siege, and drinking water running short in the city.
- Ethiopia and Tigray. From issue two. Seen in headlines only, not read: the TPLF's commander saying Tigray is still at war and claiming tactical victories, calls for the rebels to disarm, state media reporting that schools in Tigray reopen on 26 October under the caretaker administration, and Ethiopia's army chief accusing Eritrea, Egypt and Sudan of backing the TPLF.
- The El Niño projection. From issue two. Seen in headlines only, not read: the Philippines' agriculture secretary backing a call for a state of calamity, a warning of new famine risk in Sudan from El Niño drought, and Tanzania preparing for heavy rains. NOAA's index, which the thread will be checked against, was unchanged since the previous issue's reading.
- India's voter rolls. From issue four. Seen in headlines only, not read: marches against the chief election commissioner in Delhi, Bengaluru and other cities on Friday 23 October, with protesters detained in Delhi, the Delhi High Court dismissing a protest leader's plea against a peace bond, and the Lok Sabha speaker setting out the procedure for a fresh impeachment motion.
- Attacks on civilians in Sudan's war. From issue six. Seen in headlines only, not read: the UN reporting deaths from drone strikes over three weeks and its rights chief condemning a surge in them, a year since the fall of El Fasher, and the United Kingdom and partners warning of rising famine risk.
What this issue does not contain, and why
A fifth story in What moved. The European Union's new trade defence tools against China, the so-called kill switch, scored seven, level with the Starlink and West Bank stories and with Kenya's half of the Ebola piece, and was researched. It was pulled after reading: the decision its headlines point to came from the EU leaders' summit that ended late on 16 October, before this window opened, which authorised the European Commission to create new trade defence tools, and the one report in the packet from inside the window is the trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič's remarks on Friday 23 October, after a meeting of trade ministers, with nothing decided (Euronews); the other three report or analyse the summit and the reactions earlier in the week (The Straits Times; SCMP; SCMP). It was carried by three newsrooms in our sources. Rather than fill the slot, What moved has four stories.
Other stories passed over. A shooting at a church funeral in Jordan was carried by twenty independent reports from newsrooms based in seven regions. Its headlines give death tolls from six to nine; it scored five and touches fewer people than the four above. That is the same total as María Corina Machado's return, which runs under Still happening as the read for an open thread, not on its marks. A local ceasefire in one occupied Ukrainian town, which the White House says Melania Trump brokered, scored four; Kim Jong Un's return from China scored four; an earthquake in Tibet, in China, and a building collapse in Nairobi scored three each; Typhoon Champi in Taiwan scored two. Among the most widely carried stories in the pool were El Clásico, the football match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, with forty-four independent reports, and the allegations against the father of Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, twenty-five independent reports; both scored nothing for scale. All counts are of our own sources, and every candidate is on the scorecard below with its marks.
How this issue was made
Researched and written by an AI system working to a published rubric, with every source linked. The issue covers three days, Friday to Sunday, and was written on the Monday. The window is set by when our sources published, in universal time, so it closed at midnight universal time on Sunday, shortly before Brazil's electoral court called the run-off, at about 00:13 GMT by Al Jazeera's live page. The window's 18,018 headlines were sorted into 11,400 clusters; 39 candidates were carried forward and merged to 31 stories, each marked by one AI and checked by a second that saw only the marks. Seven were researched; six were written up, two of them as one piece, and one was pulled after reading, as set out above. Every figure above was fetched and read during this run.
The second AI disputed three marks, and the first AI's marks stand with the disputes printed beside them. It would have given Brazil's run-off no mark for attention, where the first AI gave it two for being thinly covered: by the pool's own standard Brazil was in its top quarter for coverage, and the second AI is right about that. Without those two marks the run-off would still have scored seven, level with three of the stories that ran, and it leads this issue on its other marks. It would also have given a football match between Liverpool and Brighton no mark for attention, where the first AI gave two, and the allegations against the father of Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, three, very wide coverage for the smallest story, where the first AI gave one. Neither of those two changes what ran. Headlines the software had attached to the wrong story were set aside by hand, on the word of the first AI: a report on Kenya's Ebola quarantine grouped with the Nairobi building collapse, a piece on a proposed merger of SpaceX and Tesla grouped with the Hunter's Moon, and two Indian reports grouped with a Delhi concert permit. Each is listed on the scorecard, where its label reads "set aside by the grouping check".
The second AI also noted two Al Jazeera live-page headlines about the war with Iran, the Houthis and the Gulf, left in the West Bank group. They share one web address with that group's own report on the Hebron operation, so setting them aside by address would have removed the story's report as well; they stay in the count, and the West Bank piece uses only the live page's dated West Bank entries. And it repeated a standing note, that newsrooms not on our own list are placed in the region of the Google News edition that surfaced them, not where they are based. That is a known problem, listed on the how stories are chosen page; it did not decide any story that ran, but it is why the Ebola piece gives no region count for Kenya's death: the record places a Kenyan paper, the Daily Nation, in North America. The trial's newsroom count would also count Premium Times NG and Premium Times Nigeria separately, as in issue nine, so it is not given.