Harris in Milwaukee, August 20, 2024, and Trump in New Jersey, August 15, 2024, are seen in a combination of file photographs. REUTERS/Marco Bello, Jeenah Moon/File Photo |
- Democrat Kamala Harris warned tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington at her biggest rally that her Republican opponent Donald Trump was seeking unchecked power as their tightening race for the presidency entered its final week.
- Donald Trump said the European Union would have to "pay a big price" for not buying enough American exports if he won the Nov. 5 election.
- From surveillance cameras and GPS trackers to low-tech solutions like glitter and hot peppers, people across the US are going to great lengths to deter would-be lawn-sign thieves. Correspondent Andy Sullivan has been on the ground for the campaign sign skirmishes - hear about the turf wars on the daily Reuters World News podcast.
- As Harris and Trump enter the final days of their close-fought White House contest, Europe is jittery about the potential impact of the US election on the war in Ukraine and the continent's security.
- At least 51 people have been killed in flash floods sweeping the eastern Spanish region of Valencia following torrential rains that left roads and towns under water, local authorities said.
- The Canadian government alleged that Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, a close ally of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was behind the plots to target Sikh separatists on Canadian soil.
- At least 93 Palestinians were killed or missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, the Gaza health ministry said, and the US called the incident "horrifying".
- Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and allies have committed "staggering" levels of sexual abuse, raping civilians as troops advance and abducting some women as sex slaves during the more than 18-month war, a UN mission said.
- China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats.
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- China's planned fiscal package targets damaged property and local government balance sheets that weigh on the economy and fuel deflationary pressures, thus acting as a stabilizer rather than the instant growth booster markets craved.
- Britain's new finance minister Rachel Reeves will announce what may be the biggest tax hikes in three decades in a bid to fix the country's sagging public services, alongside billions of pounds of extra borrowing to overhaul the economy. Follow our UK budget live blog.
- Workers at Volkswagen threatened strikes unless management backed down from planned factory closures in Germany, spelling more trouble as profits at Europe's biggest carmaker plunged to a three-year low.
- Ford Motor stock has tumbled about 8% so far this week after the company faltered on CEO Jim Farley's mission to improve efficiency in its traditional gasoline-engine operations, whose profits the company needs to fund its expensive electric vehicle plans.
- GSK said its vaccine sales would fall this year, after a weaker-than-expected performance for its RSV and shingles vaccines in the third quarter, sending its shares 4% lower in early trade.
- Google-parent Alphabet's breakout cloud sales in the July-September quarter bode well for top cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon.com, and signal that the market for AI-aided computing power is only growing.
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In US swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence |
A vote challenger watches as election clerks process absentee ballots for the presidential election. Huntington Place in Detroit. October 28, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook |
With the US election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence. In Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, three of former President Donald Trump's favorite targets for false claims of voter fraud, officials have fortified their operations against a repeat of the chaos of 2020. Philadelphia's ballot-counting warehouse is now surrounded by fencing topped with barbed wire. In Detroit and Atlanta, some election offices are protected by bullet-proof glass. |
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Land of Fire and Ice: Surreal photos of Iceland's otherworldly landscape |
A general view shows Jokulsarlon, a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov |
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