A military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Beijing. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang |
- Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war at a massive military parade in Beijing, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un in an unprecedented show of force.
- From an upgraded, nuclear-armed missile with near-global reach, to air defense lasers, hypersonic weapons and sea drones, China sent a broad message of deterrence.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing in her first public outing overseas, fueling speculation that she may be his potential successor in the family's dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state.
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- The US military killed 11 people in a strike on a boat which President Donald Trump said was carrying illegal drugs and crewed by members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Listen to the Reuters World News podcast for more on this story.
- As a federal judge blocked Trump's administration from using the military to fight crime in California, the president said he would deploy National Guard troops to Chicago.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will press for stronger pressure on Moscow as he meets allies in Denmark and France after Russian forces launched a sweeping air attack on Ukraine, damaging energy and transport infrastructure.
- The Israeli military moved deeper into Gaza City, with soldiers and tanks pushing into Sheikh Radwan, one of the urban center's largest and most crowded neighborhoods.
- The leader of Thailand's Bhumjaithai Party said he had enough votes to become prime minister after winning over the biggest group in parliament, as the ruling party moved to block his path by petitioning the king to approve a snap election.
- Australia has agreed to pay the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru A$2.5 billion over three decades to host deported non-citizens, with accommodation for the first deportees already prepared.
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- A global slide in long-dated bonds extended, sending Japan's government borrowing costs to record highs, as mounting concerns over government debt sustainability and long-term inflation also rattled investors in Europe.
- Holiday spending by US consumers is set for its steepest drop since the pandemic as shoppers — particularly Gen Z — pull back amid economic uncertainty, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey showed.
- Google won't have to sell its Chrome browser, a judge in Washington said, handing a rare win to Big Tech in its battle with US antitrust enforcers, but ordered Google to share data with rivals to open up competition in online search.
- Kraft Heinz will split into two companies, one focused on groceries and the other on sauces and spreads, dismantling a packaged goods giant that never achieved the growth expected when it was formed a decade ago.
- Elliott Management disclosed a $4 billion stake in PepsiCo and urged the beverage maker to revive its soda business, boost its share price and become more competitive.
- A US judge dismissed an antitrust lawsuit accusing 10 large banks of conspiring to rig corporate bond prices at the expense of ordinary investors, after the original judge recused himself because his wife owned stock in one of the banks.
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Citizens are tracking ICE in real time to warn migrants |
Volunteers with immigrant rights advocacy group Union del Barrio patrol in South Los Angeles. REUTERS/Daniel Cole |
In Los Angeles, immigration activists were out before dawn on a recent summer morning, gathering near an ICE staging area so they could tail the immigration agents' vehicles and send alerts over social media on the officers' whereabouts. In Austin, a technology worker created an app to report sightings of agents - it has over 1 million users. On Long Island, New York, another activist developed a similar app to report immigration enforcement raids in local areas. As Trump ramps up his mass deportation efforts, civilian surveillance of federal immigration agents is becoming increasingly assertive. |
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Pop group Abba pose after winning the Swedish branch of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. Olle Lindeborg/TT News Agency/File Photo |
Pippi Longstocking, IKEA and the Nobel Prize are among 100 works, brands and ideas deemed to define what it means to be Swedish, according to a cultural heritage list unveiled by the government. All items in the canon must be at least 50 years old, meaning it does not include the pop group ABBA, one of Sweden's most famous cultural exports, but also rules out most contributions made by the roughly one in five Swedes born abroad. |
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