Protest at the El Capitan Entertainment Centre, where "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was recorded for broadcast. REUTERS/David Swanson |
- President Donald Trump celebrated the suspension of talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves and said TV broadcasters should lose their licenses over negative coverage of his administration, adding fuel to a national debate over free speech.
- A CDC panel has voted to change the recommendations on childhood vaccine schedules. It's recommending splitting a single vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox into two shots. Global Health and Pharma Editor Michele Gershberg tells the Reuters World News podcast the move could impact insurance coverage and availability of the combined shot.
- The US Senate confirmed dozens of Trump nominees for diplomatic, military and other administration positions in one bloc after Republicans changed Senate rules to make it easier to confirm his picks.
- Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will seek an agreement to help keep the video app TikTok online in the US and ease tensions between two superpowers locked in a standoff over trade.
- For Keir Starmer, securing record levels of US investment into Britain has validated his offer of an unprecedented second state visit to Trump, a high-risk gamble that was designed to keep the unpredictable president on side.
- A senior British couple who were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan in February have been released and flown to Doha following Qatari mediation, an official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
- British spies are to use the digital shadows of the dark web to recruit informants and allow them to receive secret information from agents in Russia and worldwide, Britain's foreign ministry said.
- Spix's macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, was declared extinct in the wild in 2019. For more than two years, officials on three continents have been agitating over why 26 of the creatures ended up at a private zoo in India run by a philanthropic venture of Asia's richest family, the Ambanis.
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Gold prices surge this year amid Trump's trade war, Fed threats. Above you see daily gold bullion prices in 2025, up to September 18 |
- Gold hit record highs this week, buoyed by expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut that were confirmed when the US central bank shaved a quarter of a percentage point off borrowing costs. View our chart of the week for more.
- Threats to the global economic order have come at a furious pace during Trump's first eight months in office. But the reaction in terms of world equity and bond markets and economic activity has been a somewhat remarkable shrug: The global economy has kept growing, stock prices have surged and inflation fears remain muted.
- Britain's borrowing has shot past the official forecasts that underpin the government's tax and spending plans, compounding the already big challenge facing finance minister Rachel Reeves in her November budget.
- Nvidia's deal with Intel could put the struggling chipmaker's next-generation manufacturing technology on a stronger footing, even without a direct commitment from the AI chip leader to use that technology to make its own chips, analysts said.
- Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for US rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing's place in the race to develop artificial intelligence. Sign up for the Reuters Artificial Intelligencer newsletter.
- Watch our daily market rundown for more.
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- A memorial service for Charlie Kirk will be held in Arizona on Sunday
- This year's UN General Assembly opens in New York City on Monday
- Thursday sees the Commerce Department issue final US GDP numbers with revisions
- Here's all you need to know about the week ahead in global markets
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Special Report: Syria's Euphrates River is a simmering frontline |
The city of Deir Ezzor is split along the waterway between the new Damascus government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and Kurdish-led forces. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi |
Syria is hardening into two parts, controlled by rival armed groups. The Euphrates River is their frontline. A Reuters journey over hundreds of kilometers shows how a cold war is heating up between the Islamist factions that dominate the government, including Syria's major cities and coast, and Kurdish militants who hold its oil wealth and hydroelectric dams. What happens in coming months along the Euphrates will decide whether the country will unify, partition, or descend back into civil war. |
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A demonstrator is pushed back by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a protest outside an ICE facility in Illinois. REUTERS/Octavio Jones |
A selection of our best photography from around the world this week. |
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