Where Harris and Trump stand on key issues

Plus, what caused deadly floods in Spain?

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Lebanon's prime minister hopes Lebanon and Israel will agree to a ceasefire within days, our graphic compares Harris and Trump on the issues, and Pro-Trump poll watchers are primed for Election Day action in a key state. Plus, the Reuters World News podcast hears from scientists who have resurrected the face of a woman buried in Poland as a 'vampire', 400 years ago. Listen now, if you dare... Today's Top News   US election Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are sharply divided on the role the government should play in American lives and the world at large and on issues from abortion rights to immigration to trade. The Reuters graphics team took a brief look at their policies. Elon Musk has been ordered to attend hearing in a prosecutor's lawsuit to block the billionaire's $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered swing state voters ahead of the US election on Nov. 5. In other news North Korea said it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, upgrading what it called the "world's most powerful strategic weapon", as Seoul warned Pyongyang could get missile technology from Russia for helping with the war in Ukraine. Here's everything you need to know about solid-fuel missiles. In related news, more than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a Seoul-based human rights group said. Lebanon's prime minister expressed hope that a ceasefire deal with Israel would be announced within days as Israel's public broadcaster published what it said was a draft agreement providing for an initial 60-day truce. Canada's deepening dispute with India over its alleged campaign of violence against Sikhs in Canada could intensify Indian-based cyber espionage and hold back immigration, but analysts and experts see no immediate impact on trade. As Spain issued another storm warning for part of the Valencia region devastated by floods that have killed at least 95 people, rescuers scoured flooded fields and stranded cars for those still missing. The catastrophic flash floods are caused by a destructive weather system known locally as DANA. The phenomenon is unlike common storms or squalls in that it can form independently of polar or subtropical jet streams. German police are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station and ran away after being stopped by federal officers, according to police. Business & Markets   They're Wall Street's big guns. Stocks with so much swagger that they earned a nickname conjured from Hollywood's golden age. This live dashboard updates with the latest market data, offering a real-time view of what comes next for the sizzling US technology stocks. Meet the analyst who coined one of the most memorable neologisms of recent years: The Magnificent Seven. Big tech including Microsoft and Meta are stepping up spending to build out AI data centers in a rush to meet vast demand, but Wall Street is hungry for a quicker payday on the billions invested. The cryptocurrency industry has spent years clashing with Democratic President Joe Biden's administration over regulatory issues, but executives expect an easier ride from Washington, regardless of who wins the White House next week. Sitting on an ever-growing pile of savings, Europeans are confounding hopes that spending can boost the economy as it falls yet further behind the US. Rising savings when consumers are enjoying strong income growth goes against textbook wisdom on consumer behavior, prompting questions about a possible paradigm shift that bodes ill for Europe's future growth. China's manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in six months and services picked up in October, indicating that Beijing's latest stimulus measures are helping the battered economy turn a corner. Shell reported third-quarter profits of $6 billion that exceeded forecasts by 12% as higher liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales offset a sharp drop in oil refining and trading results. Lenders on both sides of the Atlantic are doing relatively well, despite concerns over the effect of shifting rates. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists debate what is driving growth, and why CEOs are simultaneously bemoaning increased scrutiny from watchdogs. Pro-Trump poll watchers primed for Election Day action in key state   Poll watcher, Jefferson Davis sits in his home in Menomonee Falls, ahead of the US presidential election in Milwaukee, October 19, 2024. REUTERS/Daniel Steinle With days to go until the presidential vote, opinion polling shows the election is on a knife-edge, and few places as pivotal as the battle ground state of Wisconsin. Thousands of observers may be deployed in Wisconsin on Nov. 5, after July action by pro-Trump activists which was seen as a 'dry run' for action on voting day. The Democrats are also set to mobilize volunteers on Election Day. Read more And Finally... Remains revealed by Polish archaeologists from Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, October 27, 2023. REUTERS/Lukasz Glowala/File Photo Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead. Entombed in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland, the young woman was one of dozens feared by her neighbors to have been a "vampire". Read more Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. 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Floods kill dozens in Spain

And US swing state officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton In US election news, Harris warns of the dangers of another Trump presidency, swing state officials brace for election violence, and we take a look inside the lawn-sign wars. Elsewhere, an Israeli strike kills dozens in a north Gaza residential block, and floods in Spain kill at least 51 people in the Valencia region. Plus, stunning scenes from Iceland's otherworldly landscape. Today's Top News   Harris in Milwaukee, August 20, 2024, and Trump in New Jersey, August 15, 2024, are seen in a combination of file photographs. REUTERS/Marco Bello, Jeenah Moon/File Photo Democrat Kamala Harris warned tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington at her biggest rally that her Republican opponent Donald Trump was seeking unchecked power as their tightening race for the presidency entered its final week. Donald Trump said the European Union would have to "pay a big price" for not buying enough American exports if he won the Nov. 5 election. From surveillance cameras and GPS trackers to low-tech solutions like glitter and hot peppers, people across the US are going to great lengths to deter would-be lawn-sign thieves. Correspondent Andy Sullivan has been on the ground for the campaign sign skirmishes - hear about the turf wars on the daily Reuters World News podcast. As Harris and Trump enter the final days of their close-fought White House contest, Europe is jittery about the potential impact of the US election on the war in Ukraine and the continent's security. At least 51 people have been killed in flash floods sweeping the eastern Spanish region of Valencia following torrential rains that left roads and towns under water, local authorities said. The Canadian government alleged that Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, a close ally of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was behind the plots to target Sikh separatists on Canadian soil. At least 93 Palestinians were killed or missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, the Gaza health ministry said, and the US called the incident "horrifying". Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and allies have committed "staggering" levels of sexual abuse, raping civilians as troops advance and abducting some women as sex slaves during the more than 18-month war, a UN mission said. China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats. Business & Markets   China's planned fiscal package targets damaged property and local government balance sheets that weigh on the economy and fuel deflationary pressures, thus acting as a stabilizer rather than the instant growth booster markets craved. Britain's new finance minister Rachel Reeves will announce what may be the biggest tax hikes in three decades in a bid to fix the country's sagging public services, alongside billions of pounds of extra borrowing to overhaul the economy. Follow our UK budget live blog. Workers at Volkswagen threatened strikes unless management backed down from planned factory closures in Germany, spelling more trouble as profits at Europe's biggest carmaker plunged to a three-year low. Ford Motor stock has tumbled about 8% so far this week after the company faltered on CEO Jim Farley's mission to improve efficiency in its traditional gasoline-engine operations, whose profits the company needs to fund its expensive electric vehicle plans. GSK said its vaccine sales would fall this year, after a weaker-than-expected performance for its RSV and shingles vaccines in the third quarter, sending its shares 4% lower in early trade. Google-parent Alphabet's breakout cloud sales in the July-September quarter bode well for top cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon.com, and signal that the market for AI-aided computing power is only growing. In US swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence   A vote challenger watches as election clerks process absentee ballots for the presidential election. Huntington Place in Detroit. October 28, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook With the US election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence. In Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, three of former President Donald Trump's favorite targets for false claims of voter fraud, officials have fortified their operations against a repeat of the chaos of 2020. Philadelphia's ballot-counting warehouse is now surrounded by fencing topped with barbed wire. In Detroit and Atlanta, some election offices are protected by bullet-proof glass. Read more Land of Fire and Ice: Surreal photos of Iceland's otherworldly landscape A general view shows Jokulsarlon, a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov View gallery Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. 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