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Brazil's Lula Undergoes 2nd Procedure to Stop Brain Bleed

Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
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Brazil's Lula Undergoes 2nd Procedure to Stop Brain Bleed

Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
Dr Roberto Kalil (L) speaks next to Dr Ana Helena Germoglio (C) and Dr Marcos Stavale during a press conference at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a second procedure on Thursday morning to stop a brain bleed, his doctors said.
Lula, 79, first had surgery at the hospital on Tuesday for a kind of slow bleeding that resulted from a fall at home in October. Thursday's procedure was to plug an artery that continued to leak blood onto the surface of the brain, according to his doctors at the Sirio-Libanes hospital, The Associated Press reported.
The president is awake and fine, they said, and is expected to leave the hospital and return to Brasilia at the beginning of next week when he will be able to slowly resume his activities.
Marcos Stavale, one of the doctors on the medical team, said Thursday's procedure was low risk. “He’s neurologically perfect. He’s fine, he’s talking,” Stavale said of Lula.
“He didn’t have any brain damage,” said Dr. Roberto Kalil, who has been monitoring the president’s health for years.
After the accident, his office said Lula canceled a trip to Russia for a summit of the so-called BRIC alliance of nations.
It left him with a visible cut on the back of his head, slightly above his neck.

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Australia, Britain Sign 50-Year AUKUS Submarine Partnership Treaty

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) poses with Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L), Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy (2nd-L), Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey (2nd-R) and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Richard Marles (R) before the start of the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) meeting in Sydney on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) poses with Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L), Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy (2nd-L), Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey (2nd-R) and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Richard Marles (R) before the start of the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) meeting in Sydney on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
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Australia, Britain Sign 50-Year AUKUS Submarine Partnership Treaty

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) poses with Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L), Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy (2nd-L), Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey (2nd-R) and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Richard Marles (R) before the start of the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) meeting in Sydney on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) poses with Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L), Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy (2nd-L), Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey (2nd-R) and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Richard Marles (R) before the start of the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) meeting in Sydney on July 25, 2025. (AFP)

Australia’s government said on Saturday it signed a treaty with Britain to bolster cooperation over the next 50 years on the AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership.

The AUKUS pact, agreed upon by Australia, Britain and the US in 2021, aims to provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines from the next decade to counter China’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. US President Donald Trump’s administration announced a formal review of the pact this year.

Defense Minister Richard Marles said in a statement that the bilateral treaty was signed with Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey on Saturday after a meeting in the city of Geelong, in Victoria state.

“The Geelong Treaty will enable comprehensive cooperation on the design, build, operation, sustainment, and disposal of our SSN-AUKUS submarines,” the statement said.

The treaty was a “commitment for the next 50 years of UK-Australian bilateral defense cooperation under AUKUS Pillar I,” it said, adding that it built on the “strong foundation” of trilateral AUKUS cooperation.

Britain’s ministry of defense said this week that the bilateral treaty would underpin the two allies’ submarine programs and was expected to be worth up to 20 billion pounds ($27.1 billion) for Britain in exports over the next 25 years.

AUKUS is Australia’s biggest-ever defense project, with Canberra committing to spend A$368 billion over three decades to the program, which includes billions of dollars of investment in the US production base.

Australia, which this month paid A$800 million to the US in the second instalment under AUKUS, has maintained it is confident the pact will proceed.

The defense and foreign ministers of Australia and Britain held talks on Friday in Sydney on boosting cooperation, coinciding with Australia’s largest war games.

As many as 40,000 troops from 19 countries are taking part in the Talisman Sabre exercises held from July 13 to August 4, which Australia’s military has said are a rehearsal for joint warfare to maintain Indo-Pacific stability.

Britain has significantly increased its participation in the exercise co-hosted by Australia and the United States, with aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales taking part this year.