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Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing

By Kate Turton

Hello. Israelis mark three years since the Hamas attack that set off the Gaza assault. US Vice President Vance says Iran must cut enrichment capacity to end that war.

Plus, we have a fascinating special report out this morning about how Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech.

Today's Top News

 

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Israelis mark three years since Hamas attack

  • The anniversary arrives with a battered ceasefire, a humanitarian crisis and an Israeli election just weeks away. Jerusalem bureau chief Rami Ayyub tells the Reuters World News podcast where things stand. 
  • In this photo essay from our Wider Image team, some of the freed Israeli hostages said that every moment is now precious.

In other news

  • US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war.
  • US soldiers on Japan's Okinawa have been given a month-long curfew and been banned from drinking alcohol ‌while they undergo discipline training after a Marine was alleged to have murdered and robbed a local woman.
  • Convicted killer Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by lethal injection last week, has regained consciousness and is speaking.
  • Two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive House and Senate races have broken with Donald Trump on policy or played down ties to him, a Reuters review found, revealing an effort to distance themselves from the president as his unpopularity threatens the party's hold on Congress.
  • Protests swept across France as teachers and parents took to the streets with high-school pupils on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu described as the most violent student demonstrations in decades.
  • Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis." If you failed chemistry like me, click through to the story for an explanation of what it all means.
 

Business & Markets

 
  • The US trade deficit widened more than expected in August as imports jumped to a record high, keeping trade on track to again subtract from economic growth in the third quarter.
  • US credit card spending on luxury brands fell for a third consecutive month in September, Citi said, signaling further weakness in the industry's biggest market as the midterms approach.
  • The World ‌Health Organization recommended diet, exercise and counseling over popular weight-loss drugs in its first global guidelines addressing rising obesity among younger children.
  • Porsche is steeling itself for persistently lower sales, pitching a turnaround plan to investors that aims to boost margins with a focus on top-end models.
  • A readout of the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting is expected to show a much broader debate than reflected in the unanimous decision to raise interest rates, with ‌possible implications for the US central bank's next policy steps.
 

Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.

 

REUTERS/Jeremy Schultz

Tesla is waging a pressure campaign casting safety regulators as feckless bureaucrats blocking its life-saving technology as it chases an elusive prize – government approval of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ technology across Europe.

Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.

Read our special report
 

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