| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Tuesday, October 11, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. G7 leaders meet on Ukraine, a fire-fighting Bank of England is forced to act again, and the U.S. Supreme Court mulls the line between art and theft | | | | | Today's biggest stories  A woman with a cat shelters inside a subway station during a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will ask the leaders of the G7 group of nations to urgently supply Ukraine with air defense weapons, after Russia rained down cruise missiles in its latest escalation of its unraveling invasion.
Ukrainians woke up to the wailing of new air raid sirens, with parts of the country left without power. Officials said 19 were killed yesterday in cruise missile strikes across the country, the biggest air raids since the start of the war.
Britain would expect to see indicators if Russia was starting to consider deploying its nuclear arsenal in its war with Ukraine, Britain's top cyber spy said. After more than seven months of war, Jeremy Fleming, director of the GCHQ spy agency, told BBC Radio that Russia was running short of munitions, friends and troops.
The United Nations and other aid organizations in Ukraine said that Russia firing missiles at cities across the country had disrupted their humanitarian work on the ground, while blackouts after the strikes have deepened Ukrainians' concerns ahead of winter.
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|  A view of Chinese national flags in an old neighborhood in Beijing, October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
WORLD
Shanghai and other big Chinese cities, including Shenzhen, have ramped up testing for COVID as infections rise, with some local authorities hastily closing schools, entertainment venues and tourist spots. The moves come days ahead of a Communist Party congress where Xi Jinping is expected to extend his leadership.
Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz and now intends to go further than previously planned, a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report seen by Reuters showed.
Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic agreement demarcarting a disputed maritime border between them, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said. A deal would mark a significant compromise between states with a history of war, opening the way for offshore energy exploration.
Venezuelans in the town of Las Tejerias, in the country's Aragua state, waited amid a rising death toll as rescuers searched for the more than 50 missing persons who were swept away on Saturday by devastating floods following heavy rain.
The death toll from storm Julia rose to at least 25, with most victims in El Salvador and Guatemala, as the weakening storm dumped heavy rain on a swath of Central America and southern Mexico.
U.S.
An FBI agent will testify today in the trial of the founder of the anti-government Oath Keepers group and four others accused of plotting to use force on January 6, 2021, to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election victory.
A Georgia prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election is seeking testimony from a police chaplain featured in a Reuters investigation into efforts to pressure an election worker to falsely admit to voter fraud, court filings show.
A Los Angeles city councilwoman resigned as president of the council after the release of an audio recording in which she makes racist and other disparaging comments, including remarks about the Black son of a colleague.
The Supreme Court is set to ponder in a case centering on paintings by the late artist Andy Warhol a question as philosophical as it is legal: what is the line between art and copyright theft when artwork is inspired by other material?
Mexico's government filed a lawsuit against five Arizona gun dealers accusing them of participating in illicit weapons trafficking, a Mexican official told Reuters, in an ongoing push to hold retailers responsible for the deadly trade.
|  People cross Waterloo Bridge with skyscrapers of the City of London financial district seen behind, October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville BUSINESS & MARKETS The Bank of England acted again to stem a sharp sell-off in Britain's government bond market by announcing the purchase of inflation-linked debt until the end of this week. Britain's unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 1974 at 3.5% in the three months to August, but the drop was driven by a record jump in the number of people leaving the labor market, adding to the BoE's headaches.
Germany can weather a winter energy shortage caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine provided companies and households pull together, the German chancellor said before European Union ministers meet again on the energy crisis. Here's why the Russian gas supply gap is casting a chill in Europe as winter nears.
Nissan will hand over its business in Russia to a state-owned entity for 1 euro, it said, taking a loss of around $687 million and exiting the country months after it was forced to halt production there.
U.S. drug inspectors recently recorded several new quality-control problems at an Eli Lilly plant that is already the subject of a federal investigation over manufacturing lapses, according to a government report reviewed by Reuters.
U.S. chip toolmaker KLA will cease offering some supplies and services to China-based customers including South Korea's SK Hynix in compliance with recent U.S. regulations, a source familiar with the situation said.
Elon Musk's banks, faced with huge losses on their commitment to finance the $44 billion buyout of Twitter, may not be able to back out of the deal easily but they might have a way to minimize the hit they take.
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