NATO poised to unveil new Ukraine aid

Plus, Israel presses Gaza offensive.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Edson Caldas NATO members unveil new aid for Ukraine in Washington, Israel presses its Gaza offensive hours after a deadly airstrike on a tent camp, and China dials up its scrutiny of the Big Four audit firms. Plus, the path of destruction from Hurricane Beryl, in pictures. Today's Top News   Biden attends a NATO event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the alliance. REUTERS/Yves Herman NATO summit US President Joe Biden and leaders of other NATO member states are poised to unveil new aid for war-ravaged Ukraine. Biden pledged to forcefully defend the country against Russia's invasion, using the global stage in Washington to try to show allies at home and abroad that he can still lead. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he could not predict what Donald Trump would do if re-elected. Meanwhile, several high-ranking European officials have met with a top foreign policy adviser to Trump.  Biden and Zelenskiy are not the only ones under the spotlight this week. Here are the leaders to watch at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's meeting. Health Only one in four US patients prescribed Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss were still taking the popular medications two years later, according to an analysis of US pharmacy claims provided to Reuters that also showed a steady decline in use over time. As experts fear bird flu has the potential to turn into another pandemic, Tom Polansek joins the Reuters World News podcast with insights on Michigan's efforts to stop the spread of the virus and how they are being received by those on the front lines. In other news Israeli forces pressed their offensive in Gaza this morning, hours after an airstrike on a tent encampment that Palestinian officials said killed more than two dozen people and as negotiations to end the fighting were set to resume. Follow the latest. Nearly three years after the death of "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, prosecutors prepared to make opening statements on the involuntary manslaughter trial of Alec Baldwin. Business & Markets   China's consumer prices grew for a fifth month in June but missed expectations. The consumer price index rose 0.2% from a year earlier, against a 0.3% uptick in May, the slowest in three months and below a 0.4% increase forecast in a Reuters poll. In more news from China, the country's Ministry of Finance is conducting more rigorous checks of the Big Four auditing firms, three people with knowledge of the matter said, amid concerns auditors are not doing enough to uncover wrongdoings. Fed Chair Jerome Powell told Congress that the United States is "no longer an overheated economy" with a job market that has cooled from its pandemic-era extremes and in many ways is back where it was before the health crisis. Just a couple of weeks ago, France was under scrutiny over how it would plug the holes in its budget. Now the issue is whether the euro area's second largest economy can muster a budget at all. Microsoft has ditched the board observer seat at OpenAI that has drawn regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, saying it was not necessary after the AI start-up's governance had improved significantly in the past eight months. Space bosses hailed Europe's return to space after the Ariane 6 rocket successfully carried out a series of trials in a debut flight, but the mission ended with the launcher coasting in orbit without releasing its final batch of payloads. In Pictures   Texas slammed by Hurricane Beryl.  REUTERS/Adrees Latif Tropical Storm Beryl brought howling winds and torrential rain to southeast Texas, killing at least three people, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more than 1,300 flights and knocking out power to more than 2.7 million homes and businesses. See our photo gallery And Finally... Anant Ambani and his fiance Radhika Merchant. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani/File Photo When the son of Asia's richest person Mukesh Ambani gets married in Mumbai this week, traffic in a key part of the city will literally stop for the four-day extravaganza to be attended by celebrities, business elite and politicians. Read more Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com 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. Reuters Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement © 2024 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036