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Daily Briefing

By Kate Turton

Hello. South Africa's Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who led the teamthat concluded last year that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Plus, the US announces that an Army firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

Today's Top News

A woman reacts during a wildfire in Peristeria area, Salamina island, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas/File Photo

The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet. Read about the deadlock at the world's top climate science body.
The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented ‌broadcast of a US execution.
Some 78% of Americans blame President Donald Trump's policies for rising prices that are outpacing their earnings, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that found majorities of Republicans and Democrats cite the cost of living as their top concern ahead of next month's midterm elections.
Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge who oversaw a UN report that concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, ‌won the Nobel Peace Prize "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused the US of being unwilling to help Ukraine after a Russian bomb attack killed at least 35 people in the east, sending the two-day death toll ‌from Russian strikes to over 70.
Russian health officials are pushing back on fears of a second plague case after a worker died at a Siberian research lab. Global Health Correspondent Jennifer Rigby tells the Reuters World News podcast those reports have no credible sourcing to back them up.
Attacks on Riyadh airport killed three people, Saudi authorities said on Friday, as Yemen's Houthi group stepped up missile strikes on the kingdom and tried to shut down its airspace in an escalating war ‌triggered by the US-Iran conflict.

Business & Markets

The US suspended Microsoft, major IT outsourcers and software maker Adobe from a key green-card program while opening probes into nine top universities, widening a crackdown it says targets fraud and protects American ‌jobs.
US Treasury yields have risen sharply since the war with Iran began in February, with the 10-year yield up some 135 basis points to 5.23% and the 30-year yield up around 110 basis points from its March low to 5.614%. Both are trading at levels last seen more ‌than two decades ago. Here are four signs it is about to get uglier in the bond market.
US companies are likely to deliver another earnings surge for the third quarter, and like the rally in the stock market, AI-related players are fueling most of those gains.
The view from Indian engineer Tushar Shetty's Mumbai apartment captures a tension playing out around the world as the artificial intelligence boom fuels an unprecedented data-center building spree. Resistance to the spread of AI data centers is gaining ground in India.
Thomas Barrack, a top US diplomat in the Middle East, advocated for a firm run by his business partner to take part in the development of an oil pipeline from Iraq to Syria, three people said, activities which appear to violate federal ethics rules.

The Week Ahead

The leader of India's "Cockroach" youth movement said a major planned protest would go ahead in New Delhi on ‌Saturday.
The IMF and World Bank annual meetings take place in Bangkok next week.
The midterms kick off in earnest next week with early voting beginning in North Carolina and two days later in Georgia.
Here's all you need to know about what's coming up in financial markets.

Wealthy French quit failing state schools squeezed by pensions and austerity

Protesters clash with French gendarmes, as French high school and university students attend a demonstration. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Clemence Remy moved to the French city of Nantes in 2020 and enrolled her two girls in the local state school. The teachers were good, but she grew so exasperated by rolling staff strikes that she eventually put them in a private school.

Those concerns about state schools have helped fuel some of France's most violent protests in decades. They began last ‌month at high schools in Paris' poor northern suburbs, where anger over teacher absences and shabby facilities quickly morphed into a nationwide movement against inequality, weak public spending and falling standards.

France's public schools have long been held up as a crucible of the republican ideal, a place where children from rich and poor families alike can receive a top-notch education imbued with the values of "liberty, equality and fraternity."

But performance has been slipping for years.

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And Finally...

REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

I'm not saying I plan to trade in my jeans and t-shirts, but some of the skirts at Chanel's Spring/Summer 2027 women's ready-to-wear show were very pretty indeed.

Check out our gallery of the best style, celebrities and backstage scenes from Paris Fashion Week.

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