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A girl carries her rabbit for a pet blessing ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday. The Associated Press

Nation

Search ongoing for missing medical flight

A search remains ongoing off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston.

The Federal Aviation Administration told the Coast Guard on Saturday that it had lost contact with the Gulfstream G100 carrying four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals over the Atlantic Ocean. A "debris field" was found later Saturday off the coast of Nantucket.

Lawyer: Pike remains unconscious

Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Tennessee hospital after a failed execution attempt.

Her lawyer, Stephen Ferrell, said Sunday that her prognosis might not be known for days. Pike, now 50, was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder. Tennessee officials gave her two doses of a lethal injection drug Wednesday night, but it didn't kill her.

World

Brazil

Voters head to polls to choose next president

SAO PAULO -- Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro and Brazil's veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America's powerhouse economy.

The country's electoral court in Brasilia said neither candidate will reach the 50% or more of the total vote needed for a first-round win.

Nolo turns typhoon by crossing dateline

Nolo is no longer a hurricane. The powerful storm remains about as strong, but it changed names Sunday to a typhoon as it crossed the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean.

Typhoon Nolo had maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported.

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