Reuters Daily Briefing by Edson Caldas - October 07, 2024 - how Israel is marking the Oct. 7 anniversary under the shadow of an escalating regional conflict and trauma, the war's devastating impact on Gaza, and protests across the world demanding an end to the bloodshed.

 

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By Edson Caldas

It has been one year since Hamas gunmen broke out of Gaza to carry out an attack that led to Israel's single deadliest day.  Today, we look at how Israel is marking the Oct. 7 anniversary under the shadow of an escalating regional conflict and trauma, the war's devastating impact on Gaza, and protests across the world demanding an end to the bloodshed.

Today's Top News   Israeli and Palestinian flags during a demonstration and counter-demonstration in London over the weekend. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska One year of war Ceremonies and protests in Israel began around 06:29 a.m., the hour when Hamas-led militants launched rockets into the country at the start of the Oct. 7 attack last year. They killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages, according to Israeli figures. The country has been overshadowed by trauma. Israel's military campaign since the attack has devastated the Gaza Strip. Palestinian health authorities say Israel's air and ground offensive has killed nearly 42,000 people, with another 10,000 feared dead and still unaccounted for under the rubble. On a special edition of the Reuters World News podcast, we meet two women on either side of the border and hear their stories. We also delve into the next stage of the conflict with US Foreign Policy Editor Don Durfee and Bureau Chief James Mackenzie. With the war showing no sign of slowing down, Hezbollah rockets hit Israel's third largest city Haifa early today as the country looked poised to expand ground incursions into southern Lebanon. Follow the latest here. In other news Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel assembly said in a statement that the laureates discovered the new class of tiny RNA molecules, which play a crucial role in gene regulation. Cases concerning guns, transgender rights, online pornography, workplace discrimination and more are set to be heard during the US Supreme Court's new nine-month term that begins today. Florida prepared for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Hurricane Milton intensified in the Gulf of Mexico on its path toward the US state's western coast, coming on the heels of the devastating Hurricane Helene. Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, has discussed US-Saudi diplomatic negotiations involving Israel with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman multiple times since leaving the Trump White House, a source said. Listen to Correspondent Aram Roston share his insights on the story.

Business & Markets   The reverberations from a blowout US employment number could threaten an assortment of trades predicated on falling interest rates, if stronger-than-expected growth spurs investors to radically shift views on how much the Federal Reserve will need to cut borrowing costs in the months ahead. BP has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm's energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. Cartier owner Richemont has agreed to sell its Yoox Net-A-Porter online fashion and accessories business to Mytheresa, ending the search for a new owner of loss-making YNAP after the collapse of a previous deal last year. Ubisoft, the maker of the "Assassin's Creed", "Far Cry" and "Watch Dogs" video games, said it regularly reviewed "all its strategic options", but declined further comment on a recent report of buyout interest. Powerful criminal networks in Southeast Asia extensively use the messaging app Telegram which has enabled a fundamental change in the way organized crime can conduct large-scale illicit activity, the United Nations said in a report.

Ghana's wildcat gold mining booms, poisoning people and nature   An illegal artisanal miner searches for gold in an excavated pit at the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipal District in the Western Region, Ghana. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko At an unlicensed gold mine in Ghana, men in t-shirts, shorts and rubber boots wade through pools of muddy water laced with mercury, pull out rocks with their bare hands and operate a rickety sluice as they search for the precious ore. The ramshackle mine is part of a booming business that is generating livelihoods and informal revenue streams for the country's economy, even as it harms miners' health, pollutes waterways, destroys forests and cocoa farms, and fuels crime. Read more

And Finally... Study documents extinction of 610 bird species and ecological impacts. REUTERS/Danish Ismail/File Photo New research has documented the extinction of 610 bird species over the past 130,000 years, coinciding with the global spread of our species Homo sapiens, an avian crisis that has only accelerated in recent years and decades.  Read more

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