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Rescuers race against time to find survivors in the rubble after Morocco's deadly earthquake, Ukraine reports its troops have regained more territory, and activist investors eye food and consumer goods.

Plus, the best images from the US Open.

By Kate Turton

Today's Top News

Emergency crews work, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Amizmiz, Morocco, September 10, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

Rescuers raced against time to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours after Morocco's deadliest earthquake in more than six decades, with more than 2,100 killed. Correspondent Alexander Cornwell tells Reuters World News daily podcast what the situation is like on the ground in villages hit by the quake.
In Vladivostok, residents said they were anticipating a visit by Kim Jong Un. The US fears the North Korean leader's visit could lead to more weapons supplies for Russia's military in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine reported its troops had regained more territory in its military counteroffensive against Russian forces.
US President Joe Biden said he held his highest level talks with Chinese leadership in months, adding that Beijing's economic wobbles would not lead it to invade Taiwan.
The Group of 20 major economies reached a hard-fought compromise over the war in Ukraine and papered over other key differences in a summit declaration at the weekend, presenting few concrete achievements in its core remit of responses to global financial issues.
Israel's Supreme Court will hear petitions to quash an amendment by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition that curbs its very own power, in a historic session which has already inflamed the country's judicial crisis.
When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see detained US dual nationals leave Iran and Iranian prisoners held in the US fly home, according to eight Iranian and other sources familiar with the negotiations.
Brazil's president said there was a need to review the country's accession to the International Criminal Court. It would be up to Brazil's judiciary to decide whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would be arrested if he attends next year's G20 summit in Brazil.

Business & Markets

Activist shareholder campaigns worldwide eased up during the Covid-19 pandemic but are so far in 2023 ahead of where they were in 2019. The consumer goods industry accounts for about a fifth of all campaigns.
Nvidia's supremacy in building computer chips for artificial intelligence has chilled venture funding for would-be rivals, investors said, with the number of US deals this quarter falling 80% from a year ago.
Embattled developer Country Garden faces a new round of voting by creditors to extend several debt maturities, after having avoided default at the last minute twice this month to bring some respite to the crisis-hit Chinese property sector.
Novo Nordisk's decision to launch its weight-loss drug Wegovy in Britain last week despite severe supply constraints may partly have been motivated by a desire to get ahead of rival Eli Lilly's own similar drug, industry sources said.
DuckDuckGo, which has long complained that Google's tactics have made it too tough to get people to use their search engine on a mobile phone, will be one of many of the search giant's rivals eyeing a once-in-a-generation antitrust trial.
The idea that investment opportunities in China have met their demise is probably overhyped, said Jenny Johnson, president and chief executive officer at global investment management firm Franklin Templeton.
BMW will make a multimillion-pound investment in its electric Mini production in Britain, the business ministry said, a move which secures 4,000 jobs.

In 'macho' Mexico, stage set for first female president

Mexican senator of the National Action Party (PAN) Xochitl Galvez in Mexico City, Mexico September 3, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero

When Mexican presidential contenders Claudia Sheinbaum and Xochitl Galvez entered politics at the start of the millennium, more than four in five senators in the country were men.

Today, the majority are women.

Polls indicate that Mexico is ready for a female president

And Finally...

Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates with the trophy after winning the US Open REUTERS/Mike Segar. Flushing Meadows, New York, September 10, 2023

Novak Djokovic would not let Daniil Medvedev spoil his date with history a second time as he battled past the Russian 6-3 7-6(5) 6-3 to win the US Open and equal Margaret Court's record haul of 24 Grand Slams. They day before, American teenager Coco Gauff fought back to beat Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka and claim her first Grand Slam title.

The best pictures from the tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows.

Read more: Djokovic wins US Open for record equalling 24th Grand Slam

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