Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, September 28, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa |
- Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, with the US president pushing for a Gaza peace proposal as Israeli tanks thrust closer to the heart of Gaza City. In other news, Iran has executed 'one of most important spies' for Israel.
- China's new visa programme aimed at attracting foreign tech talent kicks off this week, in a move seen to be boosting Beijing's fortunes in its geopolitical rivalry with Washington, as a new US visa policy prompts would-be applicants to scramble for alternatives.
- Moldova's pro-European Union ruling party won a resounding victory over its Russian-leaning rival in a key parliamentary election, results showed, in an endorsement of Moldova's bid to join the bloc and break free from Moscow's orbit.
- Russia said that it would carefully analyse whether any US Tomahawk missiles that might be supplied to Ukraine were fired using targeting data supplied by the United States, as US Vice President JD Vance said that Washington was considering a Ukrainian request to obtain Tomahawks.
- After the 2017 expulsion of the Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine state, the military destroyed villages and mosques and repurposed their lands for security outposts, according to a U.N.-backed investigation.
- Typhoon Bualoi tore through Vietnam's coast, killing at least 13 people and injuring 46, the government said, while accompanying strong winds and rains damaged homes, snapped power links and flooded roads.
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- With US government funding due to expire at midnight on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are showing no signs they will agree to a temporary spending fix that would avert a shutdown.
- Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has faced a federal bribery indictment and stunningly low approval ratings as the leader of the nation's largest city, has dropped his bid for a second term.
- The number of people charged with breaking US federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million court records found. Brad Heath joins today's Reuters World News podcast to discuss the implications.
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A view of cars on the road during rush hour traffic jam in San Francisco, California, US, August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo |
- President Trump frequently describes a booming US auto industry, fueled by new factories from Canada, Mexico and Europe that he says will soon be producing American-made vehicles for global markets. But there is little evidence of a construction binge. Instead, auto companies are making tactical moves at existing plants.
- Australian beef has replaced US supply in China since Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the US cattle industry into Australian pockets.
- New Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran's call for big interest rate cuts is based on faith that Trump's economic plans will quickly lower the rate of interest that would prevail in a healthy economy, something policymakers see as hard to estimate under the best conditions.
- Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has released its latest model which it said was an "experimental release" that was more efficient to train and better at processing long sequences of text than previous iterations.
- GSK's CEO Emma Walmsley will step down in December and be replaced by insider Luke Miels, the British drugmaker said, tasking the new leader to deliver shareholder value and prepare for the next wave of R&D.
- AstraZeneca plans to directly list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, instead of its current depositary receipts structure, to attract more global investors, the drugmaker said, but will remain listed and headquartered in London.
- British energy major BP will go ahead with developing a $5 billion offshore drilling project in the US Gulf of Mexico, it said, underscoring its commitment to the US region to rebuild its oil and gas business.
- Aluminum made with renewable power and from recycling is helping luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz cut CO2 emissions in the production of its new line of electric vehicles, part of a wider effort to decarbonise operations, executives told Reuters.
- After some six months as Canada's Prime Minister, former banker Mark Carney faces a tepid economy and mounting obstacles as he attempts to forge a new path for the country amid tariff disputes with its two largest trading partners.
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More soul-searching than celebration for Britain's Labour after year in power |
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy attend the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 28, 2025. REUTERS/Phil Noble |
Power has not been kind to Britain's Labour Party. Little over a year since a landslide election win, few at its annual conference in the northern city of Liverpool are celebrating: instead most are wondering where they went wrong. With the populist Reform UK party running way ahead in polls, several Labour lawmakers fear they have lost the support of many Britons and worry they have little chance of winning them back before the next election due, at the latest, in 2029. Adding to the internal conflict at the party's annual conference - the new interior minister is expected to announce tighter rules for migrants wishing to settle permanently in the country, while PM Keir Starmer's rival called out the party's leadership for presiding over a "culture of fear". |
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An early stage of an icy body being torn apart by the intense gravity of a white dwarf is seen in this handout illustration. Snehalata Sahu/University of Warwick/Handout via REUTERS |
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with implications regarding the likelihood of habitable planets beyond our solar system. |
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