Israel issues warnings. September 23, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher |
- US Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in an NBC News poll that found respondents have come to see her more favorably since she emerged as the Democratic candidate for president.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy travels to the US to set out a "victory plan" to his closest ally this week, in an urgent attempt to influence White House policy on Ukraine's war with Russia no matter who wins the US elections in November.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats staved off the far-right in a regional election, likely providing him only a brief reprieve from growing criticism of his leadership within his own party.
- Correspondent Udita Jayasinghe joins the Reuters World News podcast with the latest from Sri Lanka as leftist Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president.
- The head of South Africa's flagship Black economic empowerment programme plans to introduce additional incentives and potential fines to improve corporate participation and curb exploitation of the system meant to tackle the country's gross inequality, he said.
- The United Nations General Assembly adopted a "Pact for the Future", which U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement that is a "step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism."
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US election uncertainty clouds UN climate finance progress |
Urgency in climate fight as global temperatures rise. September 20, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo |
Countries have a chance to use this week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the US election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next U.N. climate summit in November. Negotiators told Reuters that countries were reluctant to stake out their positions before knowing who might win the Nov. 5 US presidential vote and be setting climate policy for the world's largest economy – and biggest historical polluter – for the next four years. |
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Red Bull's Max Verstappen during a post race press conference after finishing second place in the Singapore Grand Prix REUTERS/Caroline Chia |
Max Verstappen suggested he could turn his back on Formula One sooner than expected if the sport's governing body stopped him having fun and being himself. Red Bull's triple world champion was ordered by stewards to do "work of public interest" with the FIA after he used a swear word in a press conference at the Singapore Grand Prix. |
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