Israel and Iran exchange attacks

Plus, Broadway's Tony Awards winners.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Claire Beers Hello. Israel and Iran have attacked each other for the first time since the ceasefire, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off southern Philippines and tumbling tech puts the brakes on the AI rally. Plus, ‘Schmigadoon!’ wins best musical on Broadway's biggest night. Today's Top News   Israeli settlers stand next to part of a missile protruding from the ground, following strikes from Iran, in the central Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Naama Stern War in the Middle East Israel said it hit a petrochemical plant in Iran's southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, in the first hit on an energy site inside Iran since the April 8 ceasefire. Follow our live page for the latest. The strike came after Iran launched missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel hitting Lebanese targets over the weekend, defying pressure from US President Donald Trump who insists he's the one calling the shots on how Israel responds. The Reuters World News podcast breaks down the rift between the two allies. In other news At least 32 people are feared dead in the southern Philippines after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the island of Mindanao, triggering tsunami warnings across several countries. The leaders of Britain, Germany and France said they supported a proposal for talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to secure a ceasefire, and Europe would play a role. Iran’s national soccer team arrived in Tijuana ahead of three World Cup matches in the United States, amid tensions that have turned the world’s biggest sporting event into a soft-power contest between the warring countries. Ties between China and North Korea are at a "new historical starting point", President Xi Jinping said as he arrived in ‌Pyongyang for a rare summit with leader Kim Jong Un. Over a million people filled the streets near one of Madrid's main squares to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, likely to be the largest event of his week-long visit to Spain. Business & Markets   A pedestrian stands in front of a stock quotation board showing the Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Global stocks declined as fresh hostilities in the Middle East pushed up oil prices and as investors rushed out of the hottest AI-linked shares on fears that the bull run has gone too far, too fast. SpaceX's long-awaited initial public offering, expected to fetch a $1.75 trillion valuation, has set off a frenzy among retail investors clamoring for a share of Elon Musk's rocket, satellite and AI empire. Nvidia announced a series of deals in South Korea with tech giants, including SK Hynix and ‌Naver, as it looks to secure crucial memory chips to power its AI ambitions and entice new customers. Workers, unions and politicians voiced concerns over job losses and industry consolidation on the first show of a three-city “Main Street vs. The Merger” tour to oppose Paramount Skydance's plan to absorb Warner Bros. Discovery. Just three ‌large Asian tech firms, TSMC, Samsung and Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, now account for almost a third of MSCI's Asia Pacific ex-Japan Index, creating concentration risks that many active portfolio rules deem too high. Epstein abused them. The Justice Department exposed them. Now they’re under attack   Jena‑Lisa Jones says a wave of harassment followed after she spoke out about Epstein, including a message urging her to kill herself. REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona For at least 23 women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, speaking out or having their identities exposed in the Justice Department’s Epstein files has brought a new trauma: threats, harassment and intimidation. Four of Epstein's accusers told Reuters that they reported threats to police, but that didn’t lead to prosecutions because authorities couldn’t identify suspects or determine whether a crime had occurred, according to the women and police records. One case remains under active investigation, police said. Other women said they chose not to contact law enforcement, citing distrust rooted in what they saw as past failures to act on their abuse claims. Read our special report And Finally... Producer Lorne Michaels receives Best Musical award for Schmigadoon! during the 79th Annual Tony Awards. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid “Schmigadoon!” won the Tony Award for best musical, while more socially driven works dominated other top categories, with “Liberation” taking best play, “Ragtime” best musical revival and John Lithgow ‌best leading actor for “Giant.” Read more   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   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. 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AI is going to drink even more water

And more on the screwworm’s new U.S. tour

Stay informed with Reuters. Subscribe for $1/week. Weekend Briefing Weekend Briefing From Reuters Daily Briefing   By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor Thanks for reading the Weekend Briefing. The U.S. struck Iranian radar sites, complicating efforts to reach a ceasefire. The screwworm outbreak isn’t doing Texas’ cattlemen any favors. SpaceX’s upcoming IPO has drawn demand of about $150 billion from investors, twice the amount it’s seeking to raise. And I’m having trouble getting my work done because the On Assignment podcast on Turkmenistan is commanding my attention. Please do have a look. AI is going to drink even more water   REUTERS/Noah Berger Thirst: Data centers likely will consume twice as much power and water by 2030, U.N. researchers said. Japan’s digital minister defended a bill to change the country’s privacy law to use medical and criminal records for model training without people’s consent. China wants to use AI to promote Xi Jinping’s thinking among its people. Target: Florida sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing the company’s GPT platform of harming children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on self-harm and addicting young people. A British lawmaker sued xAI, saying people used it to create fake sexualized images of her. The world’s largest instrumental musicians union sued Warner Music Group and Universal for licensing members’ work to tech companies for AI training without their permission. Trump undercuts Netanyahu at a critical moment Rebuke: Trump called his Israeli counterpart crazy, modifying the word with an adjective that I can’t print here, illustrating their strained ties. Israel’s finance minister plans to expand three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank by more than 2,000 homes. And in Ukraine: NATO chief Mark Rutte warned young Russians that the chances are they’ll die in the Ukraine war if they join up. The EU is considering limiting protection for Ukrainian men of fighting age. Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin to invite him to face-to-face peace talks. Putin rejected the offer. NASA withdraws space-station evacuation alert Leak in space: Five astronauts prepared for evacuation for about two hours as Russian cosmonauts tried to fix a crack on its portion of the International Space Station. NASA disagreed with how they wanted to do the repair and withdrew the order after the Russians paused their efforts, an official with the agency said. Maps to the stars: A vast web of cold cosmic gas stretches across the heart of our galaxy with threadlike filaments flowing through space and converging into bright clouds where new stars form. And now we have a really nice map for it. The screwworm returns to the USA First case in decades: A calf at a ranch in La Pryor, Texas tested positive for the flesh-eating parasite, which left a gaping hole around its umbilical cord. The World Health Organization pledged more than $500 million to fight the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The CDC warned that the outbreak could match or surpass the outbreak a decade ago. Protein alert: A Florida mother and daughter sued Campbell’s after they said they found “worm-like organisms” in their SpaghettiOs. Sleep with one eye open all the time A somnolent duty: More than 20 police officers responsible for protecting the royal family were placed on restricted duties after being served with misconduct notices for falling asleep at Windsor Castle and leaving their posts unattended. Arrested: A Norwegian teenager traveled to Britain to carry out a murder for money after a Swedish crime group used by the Iranian government recruited him. Italy, sex education and consent Legal fluidity: Sex education in Italian schools will require parental consent under a bill whose sponsor said it aims to protect children from “the confusion of gender propaganda.” Put it away: Poland will ban children under 16 from using mobile phones in schools and will introduce stricter age-verification rules for access to pornography. Iran World Cup players get their U.S. visas A geopolitical contest: The team is staying in Tijuana and is scheduled to play against New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles, then against Egypt in Seattle. An own goal: About 60 people bought their cup tickets for free on FIFA’s website. The soccer body said it was a tech error and asked the fans to pay in full. FIFA banned vuvuzelas, whistles, air horns and other loud noise-making devices from the contest’s stadiums. It also banned reusable bottles and said fans can bring one factory-sealed disposable water bottle inside. Before I forget… It took 53 rescuers to free a man whose leg was trapped under a boulder nearly 400 feet inside a cave in northwestern Italy. Thousands of Albanians protested in Tirana against a plan by a company linked to Jared Kushner to build a resort on coastal wetland that is home to flamingos, seals and sea-turtle nesting sites. Ohio State University reached a $100 million settlement with nearly 300 survivors of sex abuse from 1978 to 1998 at the hands of the school’s former campus doctor.  Four migrants working as fruit pickers in slave-like conditions in southern Italy were burned to death in a van. Dozens of people died after a truck carrying them from Mali to Niger broke down in the Sahara Desert. This is not a dead parrot: An expedition spotted a rarely seen blue-fronted lorikeet on the island of Buru in Indonesia. More interesting fauna: Scientists also discovered a new species of dragonfly as well as a grasshopper and a fluorescent spider on the Lisima plateau in Angola. 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