{
  "id": 8277093,
  "title": "Brazil’s Lula announces higher welfare payments and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/brazils-lula-announces-higher-welfare-payments-and-free-weight-loss",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T17:10:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/brazil-lula-welfare-payments-weight-loss-jabs-election"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free weight-loss jabs, prompting criticism from opponents who say the moves are electorally motivated just two weeks before the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}