Brazilian President Lula da Silva met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to implement new bilateral agreements.

Brazilian President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Brazil's promise to reach "zero deforestation" by 2030 in his speech at the COP-27 Climate Summit hosted in Egypt.

After a tense month of campaigning in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected President a third time with 50.9 percent of the votes.

Brazil held a second round of presidential elections after no candidate won an outright majority in the first round on Oct. 2. The runoff race was between the incumbent far-right Jair Bolsonaro and leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

On Sunday, Oct. 2, Brazil held its first round of presidential and congressional elections. With 99.98 percent of the votes counted by Sunday evening, the ballots showed that top contenders Lula and Bolsonaro came in first and second place with 48.4 percent of the electorate and 43.2 percent, respectively.