Taiwan rocked by strongest quake in 25 years

Plus, Iran's options to retaliate against Israel all carry risks.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters Daily Briefing A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan killing nine people and injuring hundreds, Iran faces a dilemma following an Israeli attack on its embassy in Syria, and Disney prevails over Trian in a boardroom battle.   Plus, reindeer herders battle a power line needed for Norway's climate goal.   By Kate Turton Today's Top News Firefighters work at the site of a collapsed building in Hualien, April 3, 2024. Taiwan National Fire Agency/Handout Taiwan's biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people, injuring more than 800, while 50 went missing en route to a national park, authorities said, as rescuers used ladders to bring others to safety. Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the US "animals" and "not human" in a speech in Michigan, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail. Thailand's Constitutional Court accepted a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party, in another blow for a popular anti-establishment movement pushing major institutional reforms in the country. NATO foreign ministers meet to discuss how to put military support for Ukraine on a long-term footing, including a proposal for a 100-billion-euro five-year fund and a plan seen as a way to "Trump-proof" aid for Kyiv. Uganda's constitutional court declined to nullify or suspend an Anti-Homosexuality law that prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts but found it inconsistent with certain fundamental rights. President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared Zimbabwe's drought a national disaster and said the country needed more than $2 billion in aid to feed millions facing hunger. MIDDLE EAST Iran faces a dilemma following an Israeli attack on its embassy in Syria: how to retaliate without sparking a wider conflict that Middle East analysts said Tehran doesn't appear to want. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel mistakenly killed seven people working for the aid charity World Central Kitchen in a Gaza airstrike, and the US called for explanations. Matt Spetalnick joins the Reuters World News podcast to explain how the Israeli strike complicates the relationship between Washington and Israel. Business & Markets Western European governments have sought to reduce their energy dependence on Russia since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, but when it comes to gas, they have increasingly substituted the country's pipeline supplies with its liquefied natural gas. Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic said it would return to profitability this year after strong demand from holiday makers drove revenue up by 265 million pounds to a record 3.1 billion pounds in 2023. Disney has secured enough shareholder votes to defeat a challenge against its board mounted by Nelson Peltz's hedge fund Trian Fund Management, people familiar with the matter said. Intel disclosed deepening operating losses for its foundry business, a blow to the chipmaker as it tries to regain a technology lead it lost in recent years to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. A Chinese drugmaker has developed a biosimilar version of Novo Nordisk's popular diabetes drug Ozempic and applied for its approval. The EU has opened two investigations into the use of foreign subsidies in the solar power sector, European Commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton said. Reindeer herders battle power line needed for Norway's climate goal Reindeer circle inside a corral as Sami herders gather some 1,500 reindeer in Jergul, Norway, March 12, 2024. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner It is minus 6 degrees Celsius in Arctic Norway and some 30 Indigenous Sami herders have gathered 1,500 reindeer in a corral, sorting who owns which animal after the herds mixed while grazing up on the Finnmark plateau.   It is also an opportunity to discuss their big worry: a planned 34-mile power line to supply Western Europe's largest liquefied natural gas plant. See our photo essay here. And Finally... A newly emerged adult cicada is seen on a tree in College Park, Maryland, US, May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the US.   Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas - the kind that spend a specific number of years underground as nymphs before popping up together for a brief bacchanalia of singing and mating - are set to emerge simultaneously. Read more about the cicada double brood. 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