Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin, July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Vincent Alban |
- Vice President Kamala Harris assailed Donald Trump at her first campaign rally since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate, while a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed her taking a marginal lead over her Republican rival.
- Harris has a major, immediate decision: she has to pick her running mate. White House reporter Trevor Hunnicutt runs through the veepstakes on Reuters World News daily podcast - listen now.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be greeted by deep divisions among US lawmakers, a distracted US public and large protests as he addresses Congress for a record fourth time.
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- New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon apologized and promised reforms after a public inquiry found some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and religious care over the last 70 years.
- At least 18 people were killed when a regional passenger plane belonging to Nepal's Saurya Airlines crashed and caught fire while taking off from the capital Kathmandu, officials said. Mountainous Nepal has a sorry history of deadly air crashes.
- Monday, July 22 was again the hottest day on record, according to preliminary data from a European Union monitoring agency, inching past Sunday, July 21 which had just taken the title.
- Taiwan hunkered down for the arrival of a strengthening Typhoon Gaemi, with financial markets shut, flights cancelled, and one person killed, while the military went on stand-by amid torrential rain.
- North Korean balloons carrying trash have landed near South Korea's presidential office, the Presidential Security Service said. The objects in the balloons contained no contaminants or other risks, it added.
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Employees move media used in the manufacturing process at Gilead unit Kite's manufacturing facility in Maryland, March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo |
- Pharmaceutical companies making personalized cancer treatments are working to cut the manufacturing turnaround time by as much as half in coming years, as they try to deliver them sooner in a patient's disease course.
- While it sits atop the world's eighth-largest natural gas reserves and the biggest in Latin America, Venezuela's output fell to 4 billion cubic feet per day this year from almost 8 bcfd in 2016. Sign up for the Power Up Newsletter, for everything you need to know about the global energy industry.
- The Bank of Japan is likely to debate whether to raise interest rates when it meets next week and unveil a plan to roughly halve bond purchases in coming years, sources said, signaling its resolve to steadily unwind its massive monetary stimulus.
- Tesla reported its lowest profit margin in more than five years and missed Wall Street earnings targets in the second quarter, as the electric vehicle maker cut prices to revive demand while it increased spending on AI projects.
- Samsung's fourth-generation high bandwidth memory or HBM3 chips have been cleared by Nvidia for use in its processors for the first time, three people briefed on the matter said.
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NATO finds gaping holes in defenses of Europe |
German army Eurocopter Tiger helicopter flies during Quadriga 2024 military exercises, Lithuania May 29, 2024. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo |
The war in Ukraine and the looming US presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance's military planners have been focused on assessing the enormous cost of fixing Europe's creaking defenses. NATO leaders agreed plans last year for the biggest overhaul in three decades of its defense capabilities, amid growing fears of Russian aggression. |
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Angelina Jolie at the Tony Awards in New York, June 16, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid |
Stars will bedeck this year's Venice Film Festival, as the beach-lined Lido bounces back from the 2023 actors' strike that deprived the red carpet of its usual glamour. |
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