A child looks at demonstrators from inside a bus during a protest against federal immigration sweeps, in Atlanta, Georgia, June 10, 2025. REUTERS/Megan Varner |
- Several cities braced for protests against President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids, as parts of Los Angeles spent the night under curfew in an effort to quell five days of unrest. Listen as Mike Blake joins the Reuters World News podcast from LA with the latest.
- Trump says he sent in the National Guard and Marines to "liberate" Los Angeles from the violence of protesters, but some residents say "no thanks" Mr President.
- Elon Musk said he regretted some of the posts he made last week about Trump as they had gone "too far". Trump said on Saturday his relationship with Musk was over.
- The US Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which influence school lunches, medical advice and nutrition standards, are expected to be released as soon as June, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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- A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed three people and injured 64, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said.
- Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena, in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.
- Austrian authorities were seeking clues to why a 21-year-old gunman shot dead 10 people in a rampage at his former high school before killing himself, one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country's modern history.
- French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in eastern France, the latest such violent attack that left the country reeling.
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- US and Chinese officials said they had agreed on a framework to get their trade truce back on track and remove China's export restrictions on rare earths while offering little sign of a durable resolution to longstanding trade tensions.
- US importers are increasingly relying on customs brokers to keep up with Trump's ever-changing trade policies. But booming demand for help in processing foreign goods has made these services more expensive, adding another cost to the tariff burden, industry players told Reuters.
- The latest trade truce between China and the US offered investors the hope of an eventual deal that the feuding superpowers can live with, though the possibility of another tariff flare-up remained a risk for markets. For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets.
- Blueberry growers in Peru are looking for new markets as production rises and their best customer, the US, is waging a trade tariff war on partners around the world.
- Quantum computing technology is at an inflection point, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reiterated at the VivaTech conference in Paris.
- Japan's Nintendo said it had sold more than 3.5 million Switch 2 units in the first four days after its launch, making the console the company's fastest-selling gaming device to date.
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Egypt's crackdown drives Sudanese refugees on new route to Libya and beyond |
Sudanese migrant Bahr el-Din Yakoub at an open park in Athens, Greece, June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas |
Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends. But economic hardship and a crackdown on refugees in Egypt pushed him onwards, first along dangerous desert smuggling routes into northeastern Libya, and then on the perilous sea crossing to the Greek island of Crete. Yakoub is one of a small but growing number of Sudanese refugees who are giving up on Egypt and taking their chances in Libya |
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Amy Siewe, a professional hunter of Florida's invasive Burmese python species, holds a python in Ochopee, Florida, June 6, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Bello |
Amy Siewe was a successful real estate agent - but her life changed after she captured her first python in Florida's Everglades. Within two months she had sold her business in Indiana and moved to Florida to become a python hunter. |
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