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📌🇮🇷Iran's presidential election is heading to a runoff after a reformist candidate won the most votes A reformist candidate won the most votes in the first round of Iran's presidential election and will face a conservative hardliner next week. According to Mohsen Eslami, a spokesman for the election commission, reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian and ultra-conservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, who received the most votes, will face each other in the second round. Pezeshkian led with 42.5% of the vote, followed by Jalili with 38.6%, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Of the 60 million eligible voters, 24 million cast their ballots, a 40% turnout, Eslami said.

📌🔹NATO picks Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next chief NATO has named Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next head of NATO, while the war in Ukraine rages on its doorstep. Rutte's nomination became a formality after his only rival for the post, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, announced last week that he had withdrawn from the race. Rutte will take over on Oct. 1 from Jens Stoltenberg of Norway, who is stepping down after a decade in the post. Ambassadors from the alliance's 32 members took the decision at a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

📌🇧🇴Bolivian general arrested after failed coup attempt Forces led by army chief General Juan Jose Zuniga seemed to take control of the government of Bolivian president Luis Arce as they vowed to “restore democracy”, but the President pledged to stand firm and named a new army commander who immediately ordered the troops to stand down. The soldiers soon pulled back, along with a line of military vehicles, ending the rebellion after three hours, and hundreds of President Arce’s supporters rushed the square outside the palace, waving Bolivian flags, singing the national anthem and cheering. The apparent coup attempt came as the nation of 12 million people faced months of tensions between Mr Arce and his one-time ally, former leftist president Evo Morales, over control of the ruling party. It also came amid a severe economic crisis.

📌🇩🇪German cabinet agrees tighter deportation rules for praising terrorism The German government agreed on a draft law to make it easier to deport people for praising or promoting "terrorist crimes", the interior ministry said. Under the draft law, condoning or glorifying a single terrorist offence - even on social media - will be sufficient to consider a "serious interest in deportation," the ministry said. "We are taking tough action against Islamist and anti-Semitic hate crime online," said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. The government aims to get the draft law passed by the Bundestag lower house of parliament quickly, the ministry said.

📌🇵🇭🇨🇳Filipino soldiers fight off 'armed' Chinese coastguard with 'bare hands' in disputed South China Sea Philippines soldiers used their "bare hands" to fight off Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives in the disputed South China Sea, the country's top military commander has said. General Romeo Brawner accused Chinese vessels of ramming Philippine boats, then boarding them and seizing weapons. The skirmish happened as the Philippine navy and coast guard were delivering supplies to Filipino troops stationed in the Second Thomas Shoal. "We saw in the video how the Chinese even threatened our personnel by pointing their knives at our personnel," Gen Brawner said.

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📌🇹🇭🇲🇾Malaysia and Thailand declare intent to join BRICS In an interview with Chinese media outlet Guancha, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said his government would soon begin the process of joining the bloc, once it had received feedback from South Africa to its expression of interest. “We have made the right decision. Soon we will begin the official process.” Last month, Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa has said the Southeast Asia’s top second economy is “willing” to join the BRICS “as soon as possible.” The statement comes after Thai PM Cabinet approved a government draft letter, indicating Bangkok's intention to become a member of the bloc. “Thailand is willing to join the BRICS mechanism as soon as possible, (and) play a more active role in South-South cooperation, and strengthen coordination and cooperation with China on multilateral platforms,” Maris declared on the sidelines of BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Summit.