A dramatic Ukrainian survival story

Plus, weight-loss drugs fuel protein boom.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. Trump's diesel price relief efforts grow costlier as the election nears, weight-loss drugs fuel a protein boom, and AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions. Plus, the story of a Ukrainian soldier who severed his own foot to survive. Today's Top News   An artilleryman sets up Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Donald Trump said that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had restored Ukraine's Starlink access but the US president declined to comment when asked whether he had spoken to the billionaire about the matter. Listen to the Reuters World News podcast for more. Businesses, cultural events and museums plan to close at the weekend despite curbs on demonstrations, as French President Emmanuel Macron seeks to restore order a week after nationwide protests turned violent. Republican US Senate candidate Mike Rogers and allies including President Trump are escalating their efforts to tie Democratic rival Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood with Trump falsely branding him a "jihadist." Corey Lewandowski, a former political adviser to President Trump and top aide at ‌the Department of Homeland Security, is under criminal investigation over allegations he profited from his role in the US government. Almost all of Taiwan shut down ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Champi, which is forecast to bring strong winds and ‌torrential rain, and though the storm is weakening it could still make direct landfall on the island. The number of people injured in a magnitude 7 earthquake that struck China's southwestern region of Tibet has risen to 76, while the death count remained unchanged at 16. After more than three years of war, a lull in fighting raised hopes that a good harvest would ease hunger in Sudan. Instead, El Niño has delivered a damaging drought and, in some areas, led to the lowest rainfall since 1984. Business & Markets   From fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria to privatisation in Egypt and market opening ⁠in Uzbekistan, years of reforms have helped emerging economies weather shocks — yet often grate with citizens who hear of economic turnarounds that do nothing for them. Protein-infused bottled water. Ice cream. Boxed macaroni and cheese. Even vodka. The rise of weight-loss drugs is driving a boom in protein-based products, as users of GLP-1 medication look for ways to counter the muscle loss those drugs can cause. Volvo Cars said it would cut a further 2,500 jobs, mostly in Sweden, after plunging to a much bigger-than-expected third-quarter operating loss, sending its shares down almost 30%. US airlines are increasingly willing to fly with empty seats rather than slash fares simply to fill them, betting that disciplined pricing and flight schedules will help protect profits at a time of soaring fuel costs. Advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities that are almost certain to trigger more disruption along the lines of the outages that percolated across global government websites this week, according to seven cybersecurity professionals who spoke to ‌Reuters. The Week Ahead Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President ‌Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are about even heading to Sunday's election runoff. Israel's election on Tuesday is poised to be one of the most consequential in the country's history. It's a packed week for central banks. The Fed, Bank of Canada and Reserve Bank of New Zealand meet on Wednesday, the ECB on Thursday, and the BOJ a day later. British finance minister John Healey will announce his first budget on Wednesday, when he will try to offer some relief from higher energy prices to households, but without unsettling the bond market by ramping up borrowing. Here's all you need to know about the coming week in financial markets. A Ukrainian soldier severed his own foot to survive. Then came a dramatic rescue.   Kostiantyn Vlasenko was huddled in a hole under the boiler of a bombed-out school when he came to a terrifying conclusion: To survive, he needed to amputate his only remaining foot. The Ukrainian infantryman had already lost his left foot in a Russian drone strike in February. His right leg was broken and bent in the same attack, hindering his ability even to crawl. About three months later, after working up the courage, he grabbed his knife, sliced off his foot and applied a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding. He survived. Read about his daring rescue Photos Of The Week Protesters react amid water sprayed from a water cannon during an anti-government protest by students in Albania. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki A selection of the best images from our photojournalists around the globe this week. View gallery   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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PHP flaw sparks Internet emergency

And NATO’s AI system doesn’t have a kill switch

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Robert MacMillan Experts expect a mass hacker intrusion into vulnerable websites, violence is roiling two regions in the Middle East, and Russia and Ukraine are back at it despite the US’ latest attempt to end the war. Read on for more in today’s edition of the Daily Briefing. Today's Top News   REUTERS/Phil Noble Developing Many people have problems with artificial intelligence, but they have AI to thank for catching critical vulnerabilities that lurked for years in a widely used programming language. Learn more about PHP and why it probably will affect you. Russia and Ukraine kept up their attacks overnight following US envoy Steve Witkoff’s talks with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he supports a US proposal for three-way talks, as does Putin. And who is Stephen Hubbard, the US citizen whom Russia released at the start of the Witkoff talks? Exclusive: The US State Department ordered some diplomats and their families to leave their missions in Saudi Arabia as Yemen’s Houthis strike civilian targets. In other news Palantir’s military AI system used by NATO has no kill switch, a company official told us, after disruptions to Ukraine’s Starlink services alarmed Europeans who rely on US technology firms. Settlers have intimidated Palestinians harvesting their olives in the occupied West Bank for decades. Now they’re taking the olives for themselves, Palestinians, Israeli rights groups and the UN say. Donald Trump is going to Iowa to shore up Republicans as voter anxiety over the president and his policies has given Democrats an opening there in the midterms. We report on the one group that remains reliably in his camp: white evangelicals. Business & Markets   REUTERS/Carlos Barria The $25 billion award that a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay for misleading people about how it used their data likely will be reduced on appeal, legal experts say. Mark Zuckerberg threatened to leave California if voters passed a proposal to impose a one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaires. Meta found a way to get him to stay. Elon Musk’s plan to merge SpaceX and Tesla might face bigger obstacles from politics than from regulation. Can you take this in a little bit? Cobblers and tailors are busy refitting entire wardrobes as Americans on weight-loss drugs try to save money. Read more stories in our five-part series about weight-loss drugs and how they’re changing the way people shop and eat. Polymarket, Kalshi and the companies’ founders have given at least $5 million to Republican and Democratic groups in this election cycle as they fight states’ efforts to regulate their wagers as gambling. Carmel Crimmins, host of our Econ World podcast, interviewed Kalshi’s CEO. How land management fuels fires   REUTERS/Stephane Mahe Europe is emerging from one of its worst wildfire seasons on record after deadly blazes forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate and burned an area more than four times the size of London. Climate change to be sure fuels the conditions that amplify wildfires. But land management by governments and private owners also play a pivotal role. Our graphics team shows you how in this beautiful but alarming story. Read our report And Finally... REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini The secret of their success: Today's crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials and their many extinct relatives have stubbornly kept to warm climates throughout their history. This is one big factor that allowed them to survive for more than 240 million years, including through the asteroid strike 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs. 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. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036