Reuters Daily Briefing by Kate Turton - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says Iran and its allies will not back down from Israel, while Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border with Syria.

 

Daily Briefing

By Kate Turton

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says Iran and its allies will not back down from Israel, while Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border with Syria. Dock workers and port operators in the US reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a crippling three-day strike, and the European Commission will impose tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese electric vehicle imports. Plus, a gallery of our best photos from around the world this week.

Today's Top News   People flee Lebanon at Masnaa border crossing with Syria, October 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Middle East Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria, hours after an intense Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs, while Khamenei made a rare appearance leading Friday prayers in Tehran. Follow our live coverage. A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq a decade ago has been freed from Gaza. Listen to Timour Azhari on the Reuters World News podcast with insights into the secret rescue operation that involved the US, Israel and Iraq.  In other news Elon Musk said he will attend Donald Trump's rally in Butler in support of the Republican presidential candidate, while rock legend Bruce Springsteen officially endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. A federal jury in Tennessee convicted three former Memphis police officers of witness tampering stemming from the beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols but cleared them of the most serious charges that could have resulted in life in prison. Mexican authorities arrested soldiers who were part of a patrol that opened fire on a pickup truck killing six migrants, federal prosecutors said, two days after the incident. Ukraine's armed forces commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said he had ordered defenses to be strengthened in the eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv forces announced they had withdrawn from the town of Vuhledar. British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, in the first parliamentary move to legalize assisted dying in almost a decade.

Business & Markets   In US Federal Reserve officials' latest projections and recent public commentary, the overall economy is seen remaining in solid shape but the job market seems to be weakening and a subject of increasingly intense concern. US dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal that will immediately end a crippling three-day strike that has shut down shipping on the East Coast and Gulf Coast, the two sides said. The European Commission's proposal to impose definitive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles has obtained the necessary support from member states, the body said in a statement. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned of an "economic cold war" with China as the bloc's leaders prepared for the vote. Two years after market chaos jeopardized Britain's $2.7 trillion pensions industry, the hedging strategy that exacerbated the crisis is increasing in popularity - although providers say with less of the risk. One of the largest contract drug manufacturing plants in the US owned by Thermo Fisher over the past 10 years has repeatedly breached rules meant to ensure drugs are free of contamination, FDA documents show, including twice this year. The Week Ahead Monday October 7 marks one year since Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel. As the conflict in Gaza nears its first anniversary, the Middle East teeters on the brink of a wider war. It's a packed week ahead in the markets with US inflation data, the start of Q3 earnings, a French budget and possibly a big rate cut from New Zealand. With just a month until the US presidential election, campaigning is kicking into high gear. Former President Barack Obama will campaign on behalf of Kamala Harris in Pittsburg on Thursday.

Emails show early US concerns over Gaza offensive, risk of Israeli war crimes  People survey the destruction at Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, following Israeli strikes on the enclave, October 14, 2023. REUTERS/File Photo As Israel pounded northern Gaza with air strikes last October and ordered the evacuation of more than a million Palestinians from the area, a senior Pentagon official delivered a blunt warning to the White House. The mass evacuation would be a humanitarian disaster and could violate international law, leading to war crime charges against Israel, Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, wrote in an Oct. 13 email to senior aides to President Joe Biden. Stroul was relaying an assessment by the International Committee of the Red Cross that had left her “chilled to the bone.” Read our special report Pictures of the Week   A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River, Brazil. September 30. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly Take a look at a selection of our top photography from around the world. See gallery

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