Kenya's youth-led protest movement leaves President William Ruto fumbling for a response, Julian Assange lands in Australia after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law, and NATO picks Netherlands' Mark Rutte as its next boss.
Police use tear gas to disperse protesters during a demonstration against Kenya's proposed finance bill. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi
Kenyan protesters vowed to keep up their demonstrations against new tax hikes, a day after police opened fire on crowds trying to storm parliament, leaving at least eight people dead. Giulia Paravicini joins the Reuters World News podcast with the latest.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors in a Russian court where he is accused of spying. Gershkovich is one of at least a dozen US citizens held in Russian prisons while awaiting trial or serving sentences.
NATO selected Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next boss, amid the war in Ukraine on its doorstep and uncertainty over the United States' future attitude to the transatlantic alliance.
Gaza remains at high risk of famine as the war continues and access to aid is restricted, though delivery of supplies had limited the projected spread of extreme hunger in northern areas, a global monitor said. Follow the latest coverage.
Elections around the world
US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are already drawing distinctions over their economic records. And there are surely fundamental differences between them. These graphics break them down.
French prime minister Gabriel Attal accused his far-right and leftwing political opponents of "promising the moon" in a three-way televised debate ahead of next Sunday's first round of early parliamentary elections.
Candidates in Friday's Iranian presidential election have vowed to revive the flagging economy, but voters see little prospect of relief from a cost of living squeeze without an end to sanctions and an easing of Iran's international isolation.
Business & Markets
Britain's pound has bounced ahead of an expected election win for the Labour Party but the currency's future depends on the next government convincing skittish investors that its plans to fix a stagnant economy are credible.
None of the countries that have yet to join the euro meet all accession criteria and many have even diverged from the long-set rules of euro membership, the European Central Bank said in a report on prospective members.
German automaker Volkswagen will invest up to $5 billion in US electric-vehicle maker Rivian as part of a new, equally controlled joint venture to share EV architecture and software. For more on the industry, sign up to the Auto File newsletter.
Congestion at Singapore's container port is at its worst since the COVID pandemic, a sign of how prolonged vessel re-routing to avoid Red Sea attacks has disrupted global ocean shipping - with bottlenecks also appearing in other Asian and European ports.
Makers of the Chinese liquor baijiu are reformulating the fiery grain liquid to appeal to a wider client base, including cocktail drinkers in New York, Los Angeles and London, as sales at home slow.
In Pictures
A drone view shows debris accumulating on the Rapidan Dam, southwest of Mankato, Minnesota. REUTERS/Ben Brewer
Local residents and officials expressed concern for the Rapidan Dam as southern Minnesota battles an onslaught of rain and severe flooding.
Emily Eavis, co-organizer of the annual Glastonbury Festival, officially opens the gates at Worthy Farm. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Thousands of people began arriving to Worthy Farm in southwest England as the Glastonbury music festival kicked off, with hundreds of artists including Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain set to enthrall fans.
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Julian Assange agrees to plead guilty to one charge of violating US espionage law, bringing a 14-year legal saga to an end. Elsewhere, Donald Trump is handed a plan to halt US military aid to Kyiv unless it talks peace with Moscow, and Israel court ends draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Plus, a special report on Apple supplier Foxconn rejecting married women from jobs at its iPhone assembly plant in southern India.
Today's Top News
Assange boards a plane at a location given as London, in this still image from video released June 25, 2024. @wikileaks via X/Handout via REUTERS
Free speech organizations welcomed the news but said the case had still set a bad precedent by punishing Assange for this long. His wife Stella said she was "elated" and it was "incredible" her husband was set to be freed.
War in Ukraine
Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end the Ukraine war if he wins the election - that involves telling Ukraine it will only get US weapons if it enters into peace talks. Gram Slattery discusses the plan on Reuters World News podcast.
Western supplies of artillery shells, slowed by months of political wrangling in Washington, have started to reach Ukrainian units, relieving pressure on forces outnumbered by the Russians. Meanwhile, the EU is set to open membership talks with Ukraine.
Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash, with the outcome expected to influence the succession to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's top decision-maker. Meet the candidates.
Business & Markets
Morning Bid: Nvidia has recoiled by almost 20% since last Thursday's record high - lopping more than $430 billion off its market value in the process. The artificial intelligence champion chip behemoth remains up almost 140% for the year to date.
Novo Nordisk said its popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved in China, paving the way for sales in the world's second-largest economy. The company said in March that it would initially target Chinese patients willing to pay out-of-pocket for the drug.
China's Premier Li Qiang used his address at a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian to hit back at accusations from the US and EU that Chinese firms benefit from unfair subsidies and are poised to flood their markets with cheap green technologies.
EU antitrust regulators charged Microsoft with illegally bundling its chat and video app Teams with its Office product and say that recent moves by the US tech giant to unbundle the package were insufficient and more needed to be done.
FTX will ask a judge to allow customers of the bankrupt crypto exchange to vote on a liquidation plan that would pay them back in cash, over the objections of some customers who have demanded higher repayments.
The Bank of Japan is dropping signals its quantitative tightening plan in July could be bigger than markets think, and may even be accompanied by an interest rate hike, as it steps up a steady retreat from its still-huge monetary stimulus.
A Reuters Special Report
Job aspirants talk with a hiring agent outside the Foxconn iPhone plant in Sriperumbudur, in Tamil Nadu state, in April. REUTERS/Palani Kumar
Foxconn, a major manufacturer of Apple devices, has been excluding female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship Indian smartphone plant because they are married. Both companies' codes of conduct state that workers shouldn't be discriminated against on the basis of marital status.
The world is racing to meet a goal to protect wildlife. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of plant and animal extinctions, according to a study. It aimed to identify the highest value areas in hope that they be included in protection plans.
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