Narendra Modi meets Elon Musk in Washington, D.C., February 13, 2025. India's Press Information Bureau/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo |
- Elon Musk's social media platform X filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, challenging a sweeping crackdown on social media content. X argues India's actions trample free speech by empowering scores of government agencies and thousands of police officers to suppress legitimate criticism of public officials.
- US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin in Russia as it becomes more likely that Putin is unwilling to bow to a sanctions ultimatum expiring this Friday from US President Donald Trump, and still aims to capture four regions of Ukraine in their entirety, according to sources close to the Kremlin.
- Even as global attention has turned to starvation in Gaza, the water crisis is just as severe, according to aid groups. Most of the water is drawn from wells in a brackish aquifer that has been further polluted by sewage and chemicals seeping through the rubble, spreading diarrhoea and hepatitis.
- The escalating political fight over the Texas congressional map is spreading across other states in the US, triggering an unprecedented mid-decade, redistricting arms race with the balance of power in Washington at stake.
- Trump said the federal government could take control of Washington D.C. if the local government "doesn't get its act together," in a social media post complaining about crime in the US capital.
- Britain said it will start work within days to implement a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France. The move is a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration, after a treaty on the arrangement was ratified.
- Firefighters in southern France are battling to control the country's biggest wildfire so far this year that has killed one person and burnt down at least 25 houses.
- South Korea will offer visa-free entry to tourist groups from China, for a temporary period from September through June 2026, to boost foreign tourism ahead of an Asia-Pacific summit, the government said.
- Gunmen abducted at least 45 women and children in an overnight raid on five villages and Boko Haram militias abducted at least 15 people, witnesses said, in the second mass kidnapping in northern Nigeria within days.
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Trump looks on as a member of the media raises their hand, at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 1, 2025. REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak/File Photo |
- Trump said he believes that banks, including JPMorgan and Bank of America, discriminate against him and his supporters, as he prepares to act against banks for allegedly dropping customers for political reasons. Andrea Shalal tells the Reuters World News podcast what this could involve and how the banks have reacted.
- Trump also said he will decide on naming a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors by the end of the week, and had separately narrowed the possible replacements for Fed Chair Jerome Powell to a short list of four.
- After five rounds of trade negotiations, Indian officials were so confident of securing a favourable deal with the United States that they even signalled to the media that tariffs could be capped at 15%. The announcement never came. Read our story on how the India-US trade talks collapsed.
- As Trump's tariffs kick in, hundreds of small and medium companies in Canada are facing a direct hit for not being compliant with the USMCA trade deal from 2018. For more tariff news, sign up for the newsletter.
- OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5 model is set for an imminent release. The company is also in early-stage discussions about a stock sale that would allow employees to cash out and could value the company at about $500 billion, a source familiar with the matter said. Watch our daily market rundown for more.
- Elon Musk and Tesla were sued by shareholders who accused them of securities fraud for concealing the significant risk that the company's self-driving vehicles, including the Robotaxi, were dangerous.
- US Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about the chipmaker's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to Chinese firms and a recent criminal case involving his former company Cadence Design.
- South Korea's tax policies have thrown the outlook for Asia's best-performing major stock market into doubt, with investors assessing the impact of higher corporate tax and trading levies on the country's long-promised reforms.
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Ukraine's Catholics tend to faithful driven out by Russian occupation |
Sister Bernadeta Dvernytska of the Order of Saint Basil the Great attends to a girl at the order's monastery in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, June 1, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Peter |
About 25 miles from a slowly advancing Russian frontline, a community of Ukrainian Catholics is tending to people exiled from occupied territory to the country's eastern city of Zaporizhzhia. Church members deliver humanitarian aid to Ukrainian troops and villages near the frontline and nuns offer comfort to families and especially children fleeing the war. The monastery provides a cheerful environment adorned with Ukrainian flags and greeting cards from soldiers. As Catholic priests come under harsh treatment from occupying Russian forces, religion has become closely intertwined with the war. |
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Great Barrier Reef suffers record coral decline following mass bleaching |
An Acropora coral colony grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia October 25, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo |
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year, research showed, following a mass bleaching of its corals that was among the worst on record. The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences said that northern and southern regions of the reef has experienced a coral cover drop between a quarter and a third after several years of solid growth. |
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