Iran’s proxy war with Israel in the West

'They grab young girls and they slice them up'

Sign up for Reuters newsletters Weekend Briefing Weekend Briefing From Reuters Daily Briefing   By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor Welcome to the first Weekend Briefing in October. More than half a million school-age migrant children have arrived in the U.S. since 2022. Our survey of school districts offers the most extensive view to date of how public schools are coping. You'll want to read this one, whether or not you have children or live in the United States. Inside Iran's proxy war with Israel in the West   Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA Special Report: Tehran is roiling the West with attempted hits and kidnappings against targets in Europe and the U.S. Since 2020, there have been at least 33 assassination or abduction attempts in which local or Israeli authorities allege an Iran link. A year of war: Monday will mark the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. We're expecting commemorations as well as protests against Israel's year-long retaliation. 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Khamenei says Iran will not back down

Plus, US emails discussed risk of Israeli war crimes at the start of Gaza offensive.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says Iran and its allies will not back down from Israel, while Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border with Syria. Dock workers and port operators in the US reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a crippling three-day strike, and the European Commission will impose tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese electric vehicle imports. Plus, a gallery of our best photos from around the world this week. Today's Top News   People flee Lebanon at Masnaa border crossing with Syria, October 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Middle East Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria, hours after an intense Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs, while Khamenei made a rare appearance leading Friday prayers in Tehran. Follow our live coverage. A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq a decade ago has been freed from Gaza. Listen to Timour Azhari on the Reuters World News podcast with insights into the secret rescue operation that involved the US, Israel and Iraq.  In other news Elon Musk said he will attend Donald Trump's rally in Butler in support of the Republican presidential candidate, while rock legend Bruce Springsteen officially endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. A federal jury in Tennessee convicted three former Memphis police officers of witness tampering stemming from the beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols but cleared them of the most serious charges that could have resulted in life in prison. Mexican authorities arrested soldiers who were part of a patrol that opened fire on a pickup truck killing six migrants, federal prosecutors said, two days after the incident. Ukraine's armed forces commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said he had ordered defenses to be strengthened in the eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv forces announced they had withdrawn from the town of Vuhledar. British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, in the first parliamentary move to legalize assisted dying in almost a decade. Business & Markets   In US Federal Reserve officials' latest projections and recent public commentary, the overall economy is seen remaining in solid shape but the job market seems to be weakening and a subject of increasingly intense concern. US dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a crippling three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the East Coast and Gulf Coast, the two sides said. 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It's a packed week ahead in the markets with US inflation data, the start of Q3 earnings, a French budget and possibly a big rate cut from New Zealand. With just a month until the US presidential election, campaigning is kicking into high gear. Former President Barack Obama will campaign on behalf of Kamala Harris in Pittsburg on Thursday.  Emails show early US concerns over Gaza offensive, risk of Israeli war crimes  People survey the destruction at Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, following Israeli strikes on the enclave, October 14, 2023. REUTERS/File Photo As Israel pounded northern Gaza with air strikes last October and ordered the evacuation of more than a million Palestinians from the area, a senior Pentagon official delivered a blunt warning to the White House. The mass evacuation would be a humanitarian disaster and could violate international law, leading to war crime charges against Israel, Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, wrote in an Oct. 13 email to senior aides to President Joe Biden. Stroul was relaying an assessment by the International Committee of the Red Cross that had left her "chilled to the bone." Read our special report Pictures of the Week   A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River, Brazil. September 30. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly Take a look at a selection of our top photography from around the world. See gallery Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com 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. 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