Trump's brush with death has fueled the growing fervor among the party faithful. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare |
- Five days after narrowly escaping assassination, Donald Trump will accept his presidential nomination. With most dissent quelled and his grip on the Republican party never tighter, Trump will be in a much stronger position than in his first term to follow through on his agenda if he wins the election.
- His vice presidential running mate, US Senator J.D. Vance, presented himself to the nation at the Republican National Convention as the son of a neglected industrial Ohio town who will fight for the working class if elected in November.
- Meanwhile, President Joe Biden, who tested positive for COVID, is pursuing a razor-thin path to reelection, with four of the seven key battleground states looking increasingly out of reach. Jarrett Renshaw joins today's Reuters World News podcast with insights.
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- Ursula von der Leyen's political fate will be decided today, when the European Parliament chooses whether to elect or reject her for another five-year term as president of the European Commission, the EU's powerful executive body.
- Two weeks after winning a large majority, Prime Minister Keir Starmer will use his role as host of a European forum to press his desire to reset Britain's post-Brexit relationship with the European Union and to reaffirm support for Ukraine.
- In Ukraine, a handful of startups are developing artificial intelligence systems to help fly a vast fleet of drones, taking warfare into uncharted territory as combatants race to gain a technological edge in battle. Follow the latest on the war.
- Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip's historic refugee camps in the center of the enclave and struck Gaza City in the north, killing at least 13 people, and tanks pushed deeper into Rafah in the south, health officials and residents said.
- Police fired tear gas to scatter protesters in Bangladesh, while authorities cut some mobile internet services as violent clashes that have killed six and injured hundreds showed no signs of slowing. We have an explainer on why students are protesting.
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- The European Central Bank is all but certain to keep interest rates unchanged today while signaling that its next move is still set to be a cut, even if this guidance is likely to be vague and carry caveats.
- Growth in wages in Britain slowed but remains at levels that would normally be too high for the Bank of England to keep inflation at its 2% target, adding to doubts about the possibility of an interest rate cut in two weeks' time.
- Chinese leaders pledged to modernize the country's industrial complex, expand domestic demand, curb debt and property sector risks, as well as implement financial and fiscal reforms, state media said after a key Communist Party meeting.
- PwC has asked its China-based partners to take a pay cut of up to 50%, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as a regulatory probe into the firm and the departure of some of its corporate clients prompts cost cuts and layoffs.
- Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, raised its full-year revenue forecast given surging demand for chips used in AI, and rejected the idea of a joint venture factory in the US.
- The Suez Canal's annual revenue dropped by almost a quarter in its latest financial year as some shippers switched to alternative routes to avoid attacks by Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea.
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In the Andes, mountain guides bear witness to shrinking glaciers. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado |
Chile's towering 5,400-meter El Plomo mountain is crumbling. Rising global temperatures due to climate change have led the glacier to retreat and the permafrost to melt. New lagoons have formed and ruptured, landslides have injured climbers and massive sinkholes have opened up, breaking up the ancient path to the summit. |
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Japanese scientists make robot face 'smile' with living skin. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon |
Say cheese. Japanese scientists have devised a way to attach living skin tissue to robotic faces and make them "smile," in a breakthrough that holds out promise of applications in cosmetics and medicine. The result, though eerie, is an important step towards building more life-like robots, a researcher said. |
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