A member of the media inspects the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City August 11, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa |
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won diplomatic backing from Europe and the NATO alliance ahead of a Russia-US summit this week where Kyiv fears President Vladimir Putin and Trump may try to dictate terms for ending the 3-1/2-year war.
- US President Donald Trump has spent days escalating his rhetoric on crime in Washington, calling the US capital "totally out of control," pledging to evict homeless people and ordering a federal law enforcement surge ahead of a press conference to outline a sweeping crackdown.
- A landmark trial kicks off over the Trump administration's use of National Guard troops to support its deportation efforts and quell protests in Los Angeles, in a legal challenge highlighting the president's break from long-standing norms against deploying soldiers on American streets. Jack Queen joins the Reuters World News podcast to explain the significance of this case.
- Dozens of Indian opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi of the main opposition Congress party, were detained in New Delhi as they shouted slogans, jumped barricades and marched to the Election Commission in a rare public protest against what they say are electoral malpractices.
- South Korea's military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the country with the world's lowest birthrate, a report said.
- A wildfire broke out on Arthur's Seat, the extinct volcano overlooking Scotland's capital Edinburgh, spreading extensively across the landmark which is popular with walkers and tourists and producing smoke visible from miles around.
|
|
|
The logo of Nvidia Corporation is seen during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo |
- Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of revenue from sales to China of advanced computer chips, a US official said, in an unusual move likely to unsettle US companies. Watch our daily market rundown for more.
- Nearly 20 years after the first commercial flight powered partly by biofuels made the short hop from London to Amsterdam, Reuters found that the airline industry's plans to go green before regulators start penalising them are little more than a pipe dream.
- In Novo Nordisk's legal fight against dozens of US pharmacies and companies selling cheaper copies of its weight-loss drug Wegovy, one name remains conspicuously absent: Hims & Hers. The telehealth company continues to sell compounded versions of Wegovy at lower prices, testing the limits of federal restrictions on such copies
- The US Postal Service has cracked down on distributors of unregulated vapes using its services for business shipments, letters reviewed by Reuters show, in a blow to a multi-billion dollar industry that has dented Big Tobacco's sales.
- The new White House order directing regulators to expand access to alternative investments in 401(k) plans, like crypto or privately owned companies adds a new layer of risk to the retirement portfolios for ordinary investors that they may not fully understand, investment professionals say.
- Japan's deepening political uncertainty risks prolonging policy paralysis that could affect the drafting of next year's budget and the timing of the central bank's next interest rate hike, analysts say, clouding the outlook for the fragile economy.
- From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, US-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India as business executives and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supporters stoke anti-American sentiment to protest against US tariffs.
- The operator of Wikipedia lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements for online platforms but has been criticised for potentially curtailing free speech.
|
|
|
Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for Trump golf club |
A farmer works at the site designated for a future Trump golf course in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, July 30, 2025. REUTERS/Khanh Vu |
Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return. The golf resort, for which construction is scheduled to begin next month, is offering thousands of villagers such compensation packages to leave the land that has provided their livelihood for years or decades, according to six people with direct knowledge and documents seen by Reuters. The project is the first partnership for the family business of Trump in Vietnam. They will run the club once completed, but are not involved in the investment and in compensation to farmers. |
|
|
Stone tools are pictured at a site in Soppeng, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, August 6, 2025. REUTERS/Abd Rahman Muchtar |
Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia's Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known humans in the Wallacea region. The findings could transform theories of early human migrations, according to an article the archaeologists published in the journal Nature in August. |
|
|
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. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you've engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions |
|
|
|
