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Weekend Briefing
Weekend Briefing
From Reuters Daily Briefing
By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor
Welcome to the Weekend Briefing. Before leaping into the day's news from Iran, I recommend this Bollywood item number about Indian cinema's embrace of artificial intelligence. Our space reporter Joey Roulette joins the On Assignment podcast to talk about the Artemis II voyage to the moon. And in our latest edition of Culture Current, Russian artist Pavel Otdelnov reflects on his exile from Moscow and the inspiration he receives from London's fragile urban utopias.
The latest: Iranian forces were hunting for a missing U.S. pilot from one of two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, while two airmen were rescued. President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say U.S. forces have control of the skies.
Default sentence: Palestinians in the occupied West Bank fear that their jailed relatives could be hanged without due process if they are convicted of lethal attacks. The new law, which experts said Israel's Supreme Court likely will strike down, applies to Israelis as well, but its language ensures that it likely never will be used against Jewish Israeli citizens.
And in Ukraine: Russia's state oil and gas companies Rosneft and Gazprom supported wartime camps where more than 2,000 Ukrainian children were taken, Yale University research says. Ukraine lawmakers expect to vote next week on legislation to avert a funding crisis, help fight the war against Russia and enact changes required to join the EU. Rheinmetall's CEO dismissed Ukraine's drones as tech put together by housewives. A hashtag inevitably surfaced.
El Paso: ICE's office of detention oversight found 49 deficiencies at the Texas facility, including nearly two dozen related to "use of force and restraints." A Mexican immigrant died in Los Angeles in March, bringing the number of deaths in ICE custody to at least 14 this year. Customs and Border Protection officials violated a court order on warrantless arrests, the judge said. Local officials ruled the death of a nearly blind Myanmar refugee in New York as a homicide.
Quirky: That was the word Chief Justice John Roberts used while quizzing a government lawyer over the Trump administration's argument against birthright citizenship. Most of the Supreme Court justices seemed unwilling to let Trump proceed with his attempt to deny the right to the hundreds of thousands of babies born each year on U.S. soil.
Elbow room: The Middle East war and other conflicts are creating problems in the form of drones and straitened flight corridors, Europe's top aviation regulator said. One of the tight spots includes routes over Azerbaijan and central Asia because of fighting in Ukraine as well as between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Transportation: Absences among U.S. airport-security officers fell sharply after they started drawing pay again following six weeks of congressional wrangling over spending. A U.S. appeals court refused to stand in the way of the Justice Dept.'s dismissal of a case against Boeing that stemmed from two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes.
Too much spice: The $65 billion deal's structure, timeline and potential for antitrust scrutiny are not sitting well with investors. McCormick's CEO said flavor will matter more to customers in the long run as people cook more often at home and use more protein and produce as they consume fewer calories.
A funeral director in Hull, England pleaded guilty to deceiving families over cremations and stealing from mourners' donations to charities. Robert Bush gave some families ashes that were not those of their loved ones, including four fetuses.
Italians have long worried about population decline and incoming migrants. It turns out that migrants are the reason the country's population stabilized for the first time in 12 years.
Mark Carney has a military plan for Canada's far north. Residents say they'd like Ottawa to meet more urgent needs, like somewhere for women to deliver babies that doesn't require flying by plane for several hours.
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Trump said the US "hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran," reiterating his intent to increase the ferocity of attacks on its infrastructure. Dozens of countries still are seeking ways to restart energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Kremlin is pushing Russians to use state-backed messenger service MAX, but some are wary about the service and say they do not want to download it at all.
Beijing's national-security law has reshaped Hong Kong's political landscape, silencing the city's democratic opposition. Our graphics team takes a deeper look.
Pam Bondi positioned herself as a staunch Trump ally during her time leading the Justice Department. But that loyalty wasn't enough. Business of Law Reporter Andrew Goudsward tells the Reuters World News podcast the president had grown increasingly frustrated with her handling of the Epstein Files.
Trump's address to the nation, in which he vowed more aggressive strikes on Iran, has put consumers on course for record fuel prices at the pumps just ahead of the summer travel season, market experts said.
TotalEnergies and Shell are among companies eyeing a majority stake in one of the Gulf's most promising sites as interest in North American energy prospects rises due to the Middle East conflict.
New Delhi wellness clinic Klarity Skin Clinic touts a "Mounjaro bride" package, while other clinics weave weight-loss injections into "pre-wedding" packages typically focused on skin treatments and hairstyle makeovers.
Weddings in India are grand affairs for families that can afford them, and many marriages carry expectations around physical appearance and financial status.
Half a dozen brides, one groom and eight doctors spoke to Reuters about weight-loss drugs before weddings.
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