Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent camp sheltering displaced people, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, October 15, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled |
- Canada expelled six Indian diplomats including the high commissioner, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in Canada. Here's what led to Canada and India expelling top diplomats.
- North Korea has blown up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, South Korea's military said, ratcheting up tensions on the peninsula.
- Over the last few months, heavy rains have flooded every one of Chad's 23 provinces, burst a dam in northern Nigeria, and killed more than 1,460 people in the countries on the fringes of the Sahara, according to UN aid agency OCHA. And experts say there is worse to come.
- Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could sit down for an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, whose audience leans heavily towards young men, as she works to shore up support with male voters, sources said.
- K-pop star Hanni, a member of the group NewJeans, made an emotional appeal for young artists to be treated better in the multi-billion dollar industry, as she relayed her experience of workplace bullying during a parliamentary hearing.
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- Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by an annual 30.5% in September, as China surpassed its record numbers recorded in August and Europe resumed growth, market research firm Rho Motion said.
- China may raise an additional $850 billion from special treasury bonds over three years to stimulate a sagging economy, local media reported, a figure that failed to revive sentiment in the country's stock market.
- Thousands of Boeing staff will get layoff notices within weeks, a union and industry sources said, as a senior US official flew to Seattle to try to ease a crippling strike and a major airline issued a warning over the planemaker's deepening turmoil.
- Citigroup has struggled to adequately train employees in risk, compliance and data roles, according to the bank's own assessment, shedding light on why it is taking it years to fix regulatory issues even as billions are spent on an overhaul.
- UnitedHealth reported a better-than-expected profit for the third quarter, due to an increase in the number of members served by its insurance and Optum businesses.
- Rio Tinto's purchase of lithium miner Arcadium may herald more to come as cash-rich investors seek entry to the energy transition sector, where valuations have been battered by tumbling prices for the metal.
- Starlink boss Elon Musk said a move by India to auction satellite broadband spectrum, and not allocate it, would be "unprecedented", reacting to a Reuters story that rival billionaire Mukesh Ambani was lobbying for the auction route.
- Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT depend on chips and energy. But a $1 trillion rush to build data centers faces constraints on planning and power. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Morgan Laughlin of asset manager PGIM explains the virtual frenzy's physical limits.
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Some US voters head to court before they head to the polls |
Erika Worobec successfully sued to compel Washington County officials to notify voters if their mail-in or absentee ballot had a clerical error, October 11, 2024. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki |
A growing number of voters are going to court to ensure that they have access to the polls and their ballots are counted in the Nov. 5 US presidential election. There are roughly 95 election-related lawsuits filed in the seven battleground states that will decide the 2024 election, according to Democracy Docket, a website founded by Democratic lawyer Marc Elias that tracks election cases. |
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Paleontologist from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Rodrigo Temp Muller, holds a fossil called Gondwanax paraisensis. Brazil, October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara |
Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. |
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