| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, June 11, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers, Peru's Castillo closes in on election win, and Detroit becomes 'Jeep City' | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden with first lady Jill Biden walk outside Carbis Bay Hotel, Cornwall, Britain, June 10, 2021 G7 MEETING After four tumultuous years for the transatlantic relationship under Donald Trump, U.S. President Joe Biden's words of friendship and promise that "America is back" as he meets Western allies this week and next are a welcome relief. But they're not enough, diplomats and foreign policy experts say.
From blimps of Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to activists dressed in Pikachu costumes, hundreds of protesters have targeted the summit in southwest England to demand action on the climate, poverty and COVID-19.
A plan to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries lacks ambition, is far too slow and shows Western leaders are not yet up to the job of tackling the worst public health crisis in a century, campaigners say.
What's on the summit agenda? (And what's on the dinner menu?). Here's our factbox.
|  FBI Director Christopher Wray is sworn in to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 10, 2021 U.S.
FBI Director Chris Wray suggested “serious charges” are still coming in the criminal investigation of the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. Meanwhile, prosecutors have obtained a conspiracy indictment against six California men associated with the Three Percenters right-wing militia.
Late on the night of April 24, the wife of Georgia’s top election official got a chilling text message: “You and your family will be killed very slowly.” Read our special report on the continuing barrage of threats and intimidation against election officials months after Trump’s defeat.
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators said it had reached agreement on a framework for a proposed infrastructure spending bill that would not include any tax increases.
The New York state assembly has passed a bill that would allow people who do not identify as either male or female to use "X" as a marker to designate their sex on drivers' licenses, as the LGBTQ community commemorates Pride Month.
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Socialist Pedro Castillo is closing in on victory in Peru's presidential election, holding a slim lead of some 63,000 votes over conservative rival Keiko Fujimori, who has yet to concede and has alleged fraud despite scant evidence.
Chilean health authorities announced a blanket lockdown across the capital Santiago following some of the worst COVID-19 case numbers since the pandemic began, despite having fully vaccinated more than half its population. The development will alarm authorities elsewhere who are debating how fast to reopen as vaccination campaigns gather steam.
The Hong Kong government on Friday enacted new guidelines that allow authorities to censor films on the basis of safeguarding national security, escalating concerns over freedoms in the former British colony. The top U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong said the imposition of a new national security law has created an “atmosphere of coercion” that threatens the city’s freedoms.
Two years after local emir Djibril Diallo fled his home in northern Burkina Faso following death threats from Islamist militants, he received an unexpected request: to return and take part in peace talks with the same people who wanted him dead. We look at how West African nations are quietly backing talks with Islamists.
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Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-hailing firm, made public the filing for its long-anticipated U.S. stock market listing, setting the stage for what is expected to be the world's biggest initial public offering this year.
The International Monetary Fund said it has economic and legal concerns regarding the move by El Salvador to make bitcoin a parallel legal tender, further clouding the outlook for an IMF-backed program and widening spreads on the country's bonds.
As the European Union readies bond sales for its pioneering COVID-19 recovery fund, the scale and duration of the borrowing program may disappoint those who had visualised last year’s deal for pooled debt as Europe’s Hamiltonian moment.
Inside the first new auto assembly plant built in the Motor City since 1991, the smell of hot metal hangs in the air as new Jeep Grand Cherokee L SUVs head down the welding line. For Stellantis, that is the smell of money. For the City of Detroit, it means nearly 5,000 jobs.
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