Reuters daily Briefing - 27 November 2024 - The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah is seen as a rare victory for diplomacy in a region wracked by two wars for over a year.

 

Daily Briefing

By Edson Caldas

The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah is seen as a rare victory for diplomacy in a region wracked by two wars for over a year. We look at how it is holding so far, what is in the deal and how it was received in Gaza. Elsewhere, we cover a warrant request for Myanmar's military leader, the impact of Trump's threat of hefty tariffs and the costs of online marketing on Black Friday.

Today's Top News   A ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah took effect at 0200 GMT. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Middle East While the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire largely held this morning, Israel said it identified operatives from the Lebanese armed group returning to areas near the border and had opened fire to prevent them from coming closer. Streams of cars carrying displaced people began heading south. Follow our live updates here. Palestinians feel increasingly abandoned without a similar deal for a truce with Hamas. On today's Reuters World News podcast, Correspondent Nidal Al-Mughrabi weighs in on Gazans' fears that Israel will now focus squarely on the offensive in the enclave. United States Officials from Mexico, Canada and China and major industry groups warned that US President-elect Donald Trump's threat of hefty tariffs on goods would harm the economies of all involved, cause inflation to spike and damage job markets. President Joe Biden's fentanyl diplomacy with China is under scrutiny as Trump's team seeks a harder line to stop the flow of Chinese-made chemicals powering America's epidemic. Tariffs are just part of the discussion. Read our special report. In other news Brazil's federal police presented evidence to the Supreme Court that former President Jair Bolsonaro was directly involved in plotting a coup to overturn the outcome of the 2022 election he lost. His political fortunes long mirrored those of Trump - but their fates now look to have diverged dramatically. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity over the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority. A growing number of Norwegians would like their country to join the European Union, although the "no" camp still holds an edge, an opinion poll showed on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the last referendum Norway held on the question.

Business & Markets   Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors. Australia moved closer to banning social media for children under 16 after the parliament's lower house passed a bill even as Alphabet's Google and Facebook-owner Meta pressed the government to delay the legislation. India's lower house of parliament suspended proceedings again after disruptions by lawmakers demanding a discussion of the US indictment of Gautam Adani, while stocks of his group's companies clawed back some losses. Indian businesses may learn the wrong lesson from the case, Breakingviews' Una Galani writes. Hundreds of Chinese investors who lost savings in the collapse of China Evergrande launched a coordinated campaign this month to press authorities for an update on the failed property developer, according to people with knowledge of the effort. Volkswagen will exit its controversial plant in China's Xinjiang, after years of investor pressure to abandon its presence in the region, where rights groups have documented abuses including mass forced labor in detention camps.

In Graphics   In India and Pakistan, a shared blight: smog. Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore has been shrouded in a dense layer of hazardous smog for much of November, intensifying health concerns for its residents. Across the border in India, Delhi faced a similar battle with toxic air, as pollution levels surged due to unfavorable meteorological conditions. Thick smog shrouding swathes of North India and Pakistan was distinctly visible from satellite imagery. Read more

And Finally... An observation of a planetary nebula from the NIRCam instrument of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. NASA/ESA The James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021 and began collecting data in 2022, reshaping our understanding of the early universe. We look at some of the stunning images taken from it. See our photo gallery

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