Mourners react following the death of Palestinians in an Israeli raid, at a hospital in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 30, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta |
|
|
- Israeli authorities said that commandos disguised as Palestinians killed three gunmen in a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, one of whom they accused of planning an imminent attack.
- An Israeli intelligence dossier that prompted a cascade of countries to halt funds for a U.N. Palestinian aid agency includes allegations that some staff took part in abductions and killings during the Oct. 7 raid that sparked the Gaza war. U.N. Bureau Chief Michelle Nichols tells the daily Reuters World News podcast what the cut off in funding could mean for Palestinians - listen now.
|
- A Pakistan court handed Imran Khan a 10-year jail term for leaking state secrets, his party said, the harshest sentence against the former prime minister so far and just 10 days before a general election.
- European Union leaders will restate their determination to continue to provide "timely, predictable and sustainable military support" to Ukraine at a summit, according to draft conclusions of the meeting.
- The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink and is recovering well, the company's billionaire founder Elon Musk said. The US Food and Drug Administration had given the company clearance last year to conduct its first trial to test its implant on humans.
- Hong Kong's leader confirmed his intention to pass tighter national security laws soon to build on sweeping legislation Beijing imposed on the city in 2020, saying the city "could not afford to wait". Here's why Hong Kong wants new national security laws.
- The US government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter.
|
|
|
- It is the end of an era for Big Oil in California, as the most populous US state divorces itself from fossil fuels in its fight against climate change.
- Toyota retained its crown as the world's top-selling automaker for the fourth consecutive year after posting record annual sales of 11.2 million vehicles in 2023, though its chairman apologized for scandals at three group companies.
- Boeing said it was withdrawing a request for a key safety exemption that could have allowed US regulators to speed up certification of its coming 737 MAX 7, in the latest fallout from the planemaker's ongoing crisis.
- The sickly state of the German economy is the next big challenge for the export-reliant countries of central Europe, which are still recovering from some of the world's worst inflation spikes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Global air freight rates have climbed for the first time in seven weeks ahead of Asia's lunar new year and as attacks on Red Sea shipping prompt companies to secure costlier air cargo space.
- HSBC has been fined $73 million for "serious failings" in protecting some depositors over several years, in the first penalty of its kind under British rules designed to protect customers if banks fail.
|
|
|
Biden gestures during his tour of Hurricane Idalia storm destruction, Live Oak, Florida, September 2, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo |
|
|
US President Joe Biden will be on Donald Trump's home turf on Tuesday, raising money for his 2024 reelection bid against the Republican primary frontrunner in Florida. Biden, who is seeking another four-year term in the Nov. 5 election, is stopping at fundraising events in Miami and Palm Beach. |
|
|
Spiral galaxy NGC 1512. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team/Handout via REUTERS |
|
|
A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/DU6OAS26UBJDVP757XEMKZZP4E.jpg)
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/IAMJ4MHLWZIIVD2TBNG2XQA7RM.jpg)
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/OANCJPDKNFK7NLZFISPZA7JHYY.jpg)
![[BCDN] Black Cat Daily News](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVwjUA8pQAiT6Ks1VrdwXelstWjRFpMRpVzwQslA9z7e03hfzSA9DT7jdvkPUAbyO-QrBproYq6iCdNKOQdLoxGjYfzVmbBJqY02sLiYj9sL4kDHfrrjgZC6heN7TbqnFV4g9wGsh_kE-fwWQtC-Pexa5ON1rNVJQ5LTkJp06hY1LhgQGM3-vvPRbfWwVc=s210)
No comments