From Reuters Daily Briefing
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By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor
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- It’s getting harder: Ukraine’s capital has survived many traumas since 2022 and its people have managed to impose a semblance of normality on their daily lives. With winter approaching and Russia’s attacks escalating, that’s becoming harder to maintain. Watch our video from the heart of the city.
- Drone strike: A Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine’s SBU security service in Kyiv. The vast and secretive agency is responsible for ambitious operations against Russia and is widely seen as a leading player in covert assassinations of senior Russian military and other figures Ukraine blames for carrying out war crimes.
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- Location data: Military officials say they made the decision after reports said commercially available location data had been used to target U.S. forces in the Middle East. The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln arrived at a Thailand port looking like it could do with a long vacation.
- Iran: U.S. forces struck an Iranian tanker near the Kharg Island oil hub, according to Iranian news agency Tasnim. JD Vance said the U.S. is investigating a deadly strike on an Iranian wedding after a Reuters analysis showed that it likely was because of a direct hit by a U.S. munition.
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- You do it my way: Trump said that he would stop trading with countries with which the U.S. has a deficit and demanded that the Federal Reserve cut interest rates. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh risks the president’s ire if he tightens monetary policy – and risks a hit to his credibility if he doesn’t.
- Jobs, now more than ever: U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in August while the unemployment rate held steady. Experts say that’s grounds for the Fed to raise rates, not lower them. Watch my colleague Carmel Crimmins’ video in which she explains how that works. And read Anna Szymanski’s roundup of the financial week in five charts as well as Karen Brettell’s history of American financing in six crises.
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- 36: That’s how many genes scientists identified that substantially raise the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders like Tourette’s syndrome. Subscribe to my colleague Nancy Lapid’s Health Rounds newsletters for more. And where does RFK Jr. come down on the measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania?
- Data dump: Ireland fined its health-service operator nearly $750,000 for storing medical records in “profound disarray” in areas including a turf shed and a disused bathroom that in some cases were contaminated by animal droppings. And from our Fact Check team: No scientific studies have concluded that folic acid increases the risk of miscarriage.
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- Repeated incidents: Several air-traffic controllers on duty when two Qantas aircraft nearly collided on the runway at Sydney airport in July were flagged as facing a high risk of fatigue. It was the first of six near-misses there in about a month.
- Investigation: An Air India A320 flying from Phuket to New Delhi in August issued a stall warning when seatbelt signs were off, and a rapid pitch up and down threw passengers and cabin crew against overhead bins, injuring 24 people.
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