| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Monday, October 18, 2021 by Farouq Suleiman | Hello Here's what you need to know. U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress, oil prices climb as COVID recovery stoke demand and Britain pays tribute to murdered politician. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  A man walks past an Amazon logo outside the company's collection point in Mumbai, India, March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas U.S. Five U.S. lawmakers have accused Amazon of possibly lying to Congress; the accusation follows a Reuters investigation revealing how the company ran a systematic campaign in India of copying products and manipulating search results.
A U.S. Christian aid organization said a group of its missionaries had been kidnapped in Haiti. The group was in Haiti to visit an orphanage when their bus was hijacked on Saturday outside the capital Port-au-Prince, according to accounts by other missionaries, amid a spike in kidnappings following the murder of President Jovenel Moise.
Community leaders in Brunswick, Georgia, are preaching unity ahead of the trial of three white men accused of racially motivated murder in the shotgun death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, anxious it does not stir racial tensions or violent protests in their small coastal city.
The Biden administration informed the Supreme Court that a suspected high-ranking al Qaeda figure held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay could provide limited testimony about his torture at the hands of the CIA.
One person died and seven others were injured in a shooting at Grambling State University in Louisiana early on Sunday, the second such deadly incident on campus in less than a week, the school said. |  Candles and a portrait of British MP David Amess, who was stabbed to death during a meeting with constituents, are seen at the church of St Michael's and all Angels, in Leigh-on-Sea, Britain, October 17, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Radburn WORLD British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead tributes to David Amess, the veteran lawmaker stabbed to death while meeting constituency voters, as police questioned a man for what they say could have been a terrorist attack.
Welcome to La Lloreria, or the Crying Room. "Enter and cry," one sign tells visitors. "I too have anxiety," glows another notice in pink. Anyone can drop in at the project, housed in a building in central Madrid, which aims to remove the stigma in society attached to mental health.
The European Union will discuss further economic sanctions on Belarus, including on airlines, to increase pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko, whom it accuses of helping undocumented migrants to enter Poland and the Baltic states.
The chair of the Venezuelan opposition's negotiating team at talks with the government urged President Nicolas Maduro's administration to resume dialogue as soon as possible, after the government suspended its participation this weekend.
Ethiopian mother Habtam Akele is among an influx of thousands of Amhara families fleeing to the town of Dessie from fighting further north. Officials warn the already overcrowded makeshift camps, where displaced people sleep in rows in school classrooms, will fill further after renewed clashes.
Thousands of people in El Salvador took to the streets in protest against President Nayib Bukele who has stoked concern that he is steadily concentrating power and who responded with changing his Twitter profile late in the day to "Emperor of El Salvador". | BUSINESS Oil prices hit their highest level in years as demand recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, boosted by more custom from power generators turning away from expensive gas and coal to fuel oil and diesel.
China's economy hit its slowest pace of growth in a year in the third quarter, hurt by power shortages, supply chain bottlenecks and major wobbles in the property market and raising pressure on policymakers to do more to prop up the faltering recovery.
The deepening problems at Upson's Soanes Poultry plant in east Yorkshire are a microcosm of the pressures building on businesses across the United Kingdom as they emerge from COVID to confront the post-Brexit trade barriers erected with Europe.
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said, to help build the so-called metaverse - a nascent online world where people exist and communicate in shared virtual spaces.
Sweden's dilemma encapsulates one of the challenges facing nations meeting in Glasgow for COP26 climate talks: how to show they are not cutting emissions by simply exporting the problem elsewhere - a phenomenon known as 'carbon leakage'.
Foxconn unveiled its first three electric vehicle prototypes, underscoring ambitious plans to diversify away from its role of building consumer electronics for Apple and other tech firms. | | | BREAKINGVIEWS Agenda-setting insight from the international commentary brand of Reuters
China Evergrande boss Hui Ka Yan has just had yet another of his bubbles burst. Last year he suggested in a leaked letter that his property-developing empire was too big to fail. On Friday, though, the country’s central bank decided the beleaguered company is a bad apple in an otherwise "healthy" industry. That’s too generous, but the regulator is right that the chance of a domestic systemic financial crisis is falling, writes Yawen Chen.
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