The 'Axis of Upheaval'

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un join Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Audio Articles now available! Download the Reuters App. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Linda Noakes Hello. China's President Xi Jinping showcases his diplomatic clout in what some Western analysts have dubbed an 'Axis of Upheaval.' The Afghan earthquake toll crosses 1,100, while more than 1,000 have been killed as a landslide wipes out a Sudanese village.  Plus, thousands protest in Chicago against Trump's federal troop threats. Today's Top News   Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting in Beijing. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool A milestone meeting in China China's President Xi Jinping convened his Russian and North Korean counterparts together for the first time, a show of solidarity with countries shunned by the West over their role in Europe's worst war in 80 years. Xi will host his country's largest-ever military parade tomorrow, as he seeks to recast Beijing as the custodian of a post-US international order at a time of deep geopolitical uncertainty. Greater China Bureau Chief Kevin Krolicki joins the Reuters World News podcast to talk about one of the strongest ever weeks of Xi's presidency.  Kim Jong Un's trip to Beijing offers the reclusive young North Korean leader an unprecedented opportunity to gain implicit support for his banned nuclear weapons and expand his diplomatic circle. In other news The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years jumped to over 1,100 with thousands more injured, as difficult terrain hindered rescue efforts in isolated villages of the country's mountainous eastern region. At least 1,000 people were killed in a landslide that destroyed a village in the mountainous Jebel Marra area in the Darfur region of Sudan, leaving only one survivor, the armed group that controls the area said. Indonesian police fired tear gas into crowds of protesters near two universities in the major regional city of Bandung, student groups and authorities said, ratcheting up tension around protests that have killed eight since last week. Tens of thousands of reservists started to report for duty ahead of a new Israeli offensive in Gaza City, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to speed up, despite warnings from senior ranks. The Japanese ruling party's secretary general Hiroshi Moriyama, a close aide to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, said he intends to resign from his post, potentially affecting the fate of Ishiba who has resisted calls to quit over an election loss. Thousands of protesters packed the streets near downtown Chicago, singing, chanting and waving signs protesting President Donald Trump's threats to flood the city with National Guard troops and federal immigration agents. Business & Markets   Laurent Freixe addresses the Nestle AGM. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo Nestle has fired its CEO Laurent Freixe after just one year in the job after an investigation into an undisclosed "romantic relationship", ousting its second chief in a year and throwing the Swiss food giant into the deepest leadership chaos in decades. Meanwhile, Suntory CEO Takeshi Niinami has resigned from the beverage group following a police investigation into his purchase of a supplement that may have breached the country's strict drug laws. Kraft Heinz said it would spin off its grocery unit into an independent public company as the US packaged goods maker aims to revive growth after years of muted sales. Curtailing the US Federal Reserve's independence could backfire and push up borrowing costs rather than lower them while disrupting the entire global financial system, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel told Reuters in an interview. In markets news, gold sailed past $3,500 per ounce to a record high, as a weaker dollar and mounting expectations of a US Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September boosted the precious metal's appeal. Long-dated bond yields in Britain and France hit their highest in over a decade as investors grow increasingly worried about the state of the countries' finances. Vietnam celebrates independence day   Vietnamese troops take part in a parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of independence. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/Pool  Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of its declaration of independence from colonial rule with its largest military parade in decades, unprecedented cash handouts and the release of nearly 14,000 prisoners. Tens of thousands of people crowded the streets of the capital Hanoi, most of whom were wearing red shirts and holding Vietnamese flags, in a strong show of nationalism in the Communist-run country. Read more And Finally... An exhibition in Italy is expanding traditional ideas about taste by exploring how sound influences the way people experience their food. Hosted at the MUSE science museum in Trento, Food Sound examines how auditory cues – from the crunch of an apple to the sizzle of a pan – affect appetite, perception of flavor and emotional response. Read more Get full access to Reuters.com for just $1/week. Subscribe now. Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you've engaged with its contents. 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Xi, Putin share vision for new global order

Plus, earthquake in Afghanistan kills over 800.

Audio Articles now available! Download the Reuters App. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Anisha De Hello. Today we are covering the final day of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in China and a deadly earthquake in Afghanistan. Elsewhere, US tariffs' impact on factory activity across Europe and Asia. Plus, a German town's refugee integration efforts under threat.  Today's Top News   Xi Jinping welcomes Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China August 31, 2025. Sputnik/Sergei Bobylyov/Pool via REUTERS Chinese President Xi Jinping urged leaders at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit to leverage their "mega-scale market", while Russian President Vladimir Putin showed support for Xi's ambition for a new global security and economic order that poses a challenge to the United States. Follow our live updates. One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said, as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospital after they were plucked from the rubble of homes being combed for survivors. Hundreds of students gathered in major Indonesian cities, defying fears of a crackdown on protests after deadly riots on the weekend left eight dead in the worst violence in the Southeast Asian nation in over two decades. Gibran Peshimam joins today's Reuters World News podcast to dicuss where the turmoil is headed.  The biggest party in Thailand's parliament is due to meet to decide whom it will back to form the next government, as two rival camps jostled for its votes following the sacking of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister last week. More than two million people have been affected in Pakistan's Punjab and more than 2,000 villages inundated, by what officials are calling the worst flood in decades. Farmers and exporters have warned that the impact on agriculture will be staggering. Israel pushed tanks deeper into Gaza City and detonated explosives-laden vehicles in one suburb as airstrikes killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. The GPS system of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane was jammed by suspected Russian interference while en route to Bulgaria, an EU spokesperson said, confirming earlier media reports. Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will kick off a series of talks with France's political parties, seeking to stave off the collapse of his government in a confidence vote next week that opposition leaders said is bound to fail. Brazil's Supreme Court goes into final deliberations in its trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro this week. Read our story on Justice Alexandre de Moraes's pursuit which has led Trump to impose a 50% trade tariff on Brazil, visa restrictions and individual financial sanctions. Business & Markets   An employee works on a production line manufacturing steel structures at a factory in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China May 17, 2020. China Daily via Reuters/File Photo Euro zone factory activity expanded for the first time since mid-2022 as domestic demand offset the impact from US tariffs while the Asian manufacturing sector saw shrinkage, private surveys showed.  The Trump administration is continuing its talks with trading partners despite a US appeals court ruling that most of Trump's tariffs are illegal, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said. For more tariff news, sign up for the Tariff Watch newsletter. Shares in SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics dropped after Washington revoked authorisations that allowed them to secure US semiconductor manufacturing equipment for their chip plants in China. India plans to cut consumption tax by at least 10 percentage points on nearly 175 products ranging from shampoos and hybrid cars to consumer electronics, said two sources, revealing new details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's major tax overhaul. Tesla's sales rout in some European markets extended to an eighth month in August amid mounting competition, as well as a backlash against CEO Elon Musk's courting of far-right parties.The company lowered the price for its Model 3 rear-wheel drive version in China by 3.7% to $36,278.99, its website showed. Eric Trump took the stage in Tokyo to throw his support behind Japanese bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet, as the US president's family expands its crypto ventures internationally. An Australian government-commissioned report said selfie-based age guessing software could enforce a teen social media ban, but noted that some groups experienced "unacceptable" levels of inaccuracy, raising concerns about the December rollout. A German town hoped migration could turn its fortunes around. It was no panacea   Iraqi refugee Humam al-Gburi, 34, and retired nurse Ursula Panke, 85, pose for a picture in Altena, Germany, July 15, 2025. REUTERS/Riham Alkousaa/File Photo A decade ago, as Germany was grappling with an influx of more than a million migrants, the small town of Altena saw an opportunity to reverse years of population and economic decline. The industrial town in Western Germany made national headlines in 2015 when it volunteered to take in 100 more migrants than required, becoming a model of Chancellor Angela Merkel's pledge: "Wir schaffen das" - "We can do this." But while there have been benefits for both sides, three current and former town officials told Reuters migration wasn't a panacea. Read our story And Finally... A baker holds up trays of baguettes at the Hoan Boulangerie bakery shop in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 30, 2025. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha Baguette? No, banh mi. As Vietnam celebrates the 80th anniversary of its declaration of independence from colonial rule this week, French cultural influence remains ubiquitous, but not many people in the Southeast Asian nation are aware of its prevalence. Read more Get full access to Reuters.com for just $1/week. Subscribe now. Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you've engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions © 2025 Thomson Reuters. 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