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China's commerce ministry condemned the United States for placing several Chinese companies on a list of businesses Washington alleges use Uyghur forced labor or source material from Xinjiang, and said Beijing would take steps to safeguard its interests

Yemen's hospitals buckle as fighting escalates

Morning Bid: RBNZ throws markets a curveball

The Trump administration issued more than 100 subpoenas demanding records on tens of thousands of voters in at least a dozen states, part of an escalating effort ahead of next week’s midterm elections to uncover evidence of unlawful voting by noncitizens

Campari confirms 2026 outlook after 3.4% rise in third quarter revenue

Wendy's gets $1.4 billion take-private offer from Peltz-led group

Germany's Steinmeier says China must avoid one-sided benefits in economic ties

German industry groups urge Berlin to join defence bank initiative

Germany set for record trade deficit with Asia-Pacific in 2026, report says

💰 Some of California's wealthiest people are spending big to defeat a ballot measure next week. Find out why on this week's Econ World podcast

Canadian dollar strengthens, bond yields rise after BoC's rate hike

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: Google and Microsoft weave tangled AI webs

Volkswagen tumbled further into the red in the third quarter, signalling a deepening crisis at the world's second-largest carmaker, which is battling seismic challenges across key markets as it embarks on a major restructuring

Pompeii cupboard opens window onto life before Vesuvius erupted

Arrivals at Downing Street ahead of UK budget

Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: Anthropic offers glimmer of hope for China AI labs

Oilfield services firms lean on Middle East rebound but risks persist

Empathy and purpose drive Los Javis' Oscar hopeful 'La Bola Negra'

Chinese AI model carries out complex cyberattacks in controlled tests, researchers say

Trump touts projects and payouts on the campaign trail. Many are uncertain

Insurer Mapfre's core markets drive profit growth, offsetting Colombia earthquake losses

Nigeria's Dangote refinery closed its $1.6 billion initial public offering, after attracting investors across Africa to what the continent's richest man called 'The People's IPO'

UK homebuilders slump as budget's first-time buyer scheme disappoints

In Ukraine's Kherson, brief ceasefire brings rare respite

Hong Kong leader John Lee apologized for the deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the city last November, promising extensive reforms to its building industry and regulatory system

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss assess potential UBS relocation, highlight difficulties

After a leaderless student-led protest movement swept Serbia's former President Aleksandar Vucic from power in a historic snap election on October 25, the country is waiting to hear who it will appoint to govern. Here are some of the prominent candidates on the shortlist

UK's Healey says minimum wage to rise by 3.9%

As Iran war drags on, airlines pull back on fuel hedges and warn on fares

Two high-speed trains collide in Spain

Morning Bid: In the AI alphabet, cash is king

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon treating military base freezer malfunctions as suspected cyberattack, officials say

Volkswagen, in strategy shift, plans to globalise China-developed technology

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, Reuters images showed. Bolsonaro lost Sunday's presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and did not comply with a Supreme Court order to turn in his passports to federal police

💰 Would taxing billionaire wealth raise meaningful revenue, or drive the state's wealthiest people elsewhere? @berkeleyecon professor Emmanuel Saez joins this week's Econ World podcast to discuss California's hugely consequential tax proposal

Alvin Hellerstein, federal judge who oversaw Trump, Maduro and September 11 cases, dies at 92

North Korea fired around 10 ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, as tensions run high ahead of Pyongyang's end-of-month deadline to activate propaganda loudspeakers along the heavily armed border

China's Communist Party confirms expulsion of 33 officials

In Asia’s richest family, which controls the oil-to-retail Reliance empire, Mukesh Ambani shed tears of pride as the telecom and digital unit run by his eldest son Akash made its market debut, capping the 35-year-old’s meteoric rise

As forest fires rage, hundreds of Indonesian students protest government response

Microsoft beats quarterly cloud revenue estimates

Dutch court allows to require 40% office attendance

Oil prices fall as peace hopes offset fears of growing Middle East conflict

Christine Lagarde's decision to step down early as European Central Bank president brings an abrupt end to seven years at an institution she was never expected to lead

Hegseth reassures Southeast Asia of US commitment, pledges stronger defence ties

UK bank tax will be temporary and below 8%, Bloomberg reports

Italian judge frees protest suspect, prompting Meloni fury

US bans imports from BGI Genomics, MGI Tech, citing ties to forced labor in Xinjiang

China has more than 50 navy and other official vessels operating in a wide swath of sea stretching from southern Japan down to Taiwan and off the Philippines, a senior Taiwan official said, calling the threat level ‘obvious’

Greek PM calls for global maritime truce after Greek ship sunk in drone attack

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to reassure Southeast Asian counterparts of Washington’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific, pledging that Washington would defend its interests and those of its allies and partners

Iranians cut essentials and put dreams on hold as war-hit economy bites

European gas touches €100 for first time since 2022 energy crisis as consumers, industry feel the pain

UK budget: Healey accepts smaller fiscal buffer after global shocks hit economy

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports

Hidden behind names starting with the letters MOD, for the Ministry of Defence, are more than 5,000 agencies that form a formidable financial and military machine. Read how Iran's hidden web of military agencies is slipping hardware past the US blockade:

Three South Korean financial firms including Bithumb report data breaches, Yonhap says

Cloud security startup Upwind raises $400 million, valued at $3.8 billion

British homebuilder shares slump on lack of clarity over first-time buyer plan in budget

Two high-speed trains have collided in Spain, prompting the ‌suspension of the line connecting Madrid to the southern Andalusia region, rail operator Adif said

💰 Taxing billionaires sounds simple. Doing it isn't. @berekelyecon professor Emmanuel Saez explains how California's controversial wealth tax proposal would work on this week's Econ World podcast

Big Caring launches IPO valuing Malaysian pharmacy chain at $2 billion

Spanish train crash death toll rises to 69 in grim search for victims

🔊 Neocloud stocks have sold off, and so has their unsecured debt, in recent weeks. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists debate whether the damage can be contained and if cracks in AI's plumbing could further hit Anthropic's slowing growth

Chipmaker SK Hynix to return $75 billion to shareholders after record profit

Dolores Huerta, one of the foremost women in US labor history who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and fought legislators and powerful growers to improve the lives of a previously powerless constituency, died at age 96, her family said

At least 30 people were killed ‌when the two trains collided in Spain, the second deadly accident in less than a year on the line connecting Madrid to the southern Andalusia region, regional authorities said

Amazon cuts more jobs, in devices unit, after flurry of product rollouts

Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in the United States after losing Brazil’s presidential runoff and declaring himself the country’s rightful leader. Reuters correspondent Gabriel Araujo explains his claims and the challenges to overturning the result

Greek container ship sinks after drone attack off Bulgaria

China's proposed artificial intelligence export curbs will push a business model favored by Beijing and the industry's biggest players: keeping valuable technology at home while selling access to it abroad as rivalry with the US intensifies

Rescue workers in Spain scoured wreckage for more bodies at the crash scene where at least 68 people were killed when two high-speed trains collided, in the country's second deadly railway accident this year. Live updates ➡️

As Iran war drags on, airlines pull back on fuel hedges and warn on fares

Shocked residents of Urda swung into action to help as soon as they heard of the deadly train crash on the railway line not far from the normally sleepy Spanish town

World Bank sees commodity prices up 23% in 2026 due to Middle East war, other shocks

China condemns US move to add Chinese medical equipment firms to Uyghur forced labour list

US couple's retirement dream in ruins after residential cruise scrapped in Cambodia

From its origins as Nazi Germany’s 'people’s car' to becoming the world’s second-largest automaker, Volkswagen has repeatedly reinvented itself. Now, it faces what could be the biggest restructuring in its 89-year history

Mbappe's Mao remarks expose costs of crossing China's red lines

Cruise ship residents left stranded in Cambodia after fuel prices soar

AI giants' funding ambitions test Wall Street's appetite for risk

US sways more countries to oppose UN resolution condemning its Cuba embargo

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady as expected, but it was not able to comfort bond investors concerned about what a deliberate pace of policy tightening will mean for the outlook for longer-term government bonds

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said she decided to step down eight months before her term was due to expire so that she can speak more freely on issues beyond monetary policy

Grand jury declines to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, source says

Gold edges lower before Fed decision, Warsh comments

Italian judge frees protest suspect, prompting Meloni fury

Residents of the Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship were left stranded and at a loss in the Cambodian port city of Sihanoukville after being told to leave the vessel, saying the operator had run out of money to pay for fuel

Dolores Huerta, US labor leader and force for human rights, dies at 96

Taiwan flags 'obvious' threat from 50 Chinese vessels in wide sweep of waters

Christine Lagarde: The outsider who led the ECB her way

Young protesters across Europe tell @Reuters what is driving them to the streets, from worries about their future to frustration with leaders they say aren’t listening

🔊 From memes to a major backlash: Kylian Mbappé has apologized to China after an alleged Mao Zedong joke prompted Chinese brands to drop him. Listen now on the daily Reuters World News podcast

European gas touches €100 for first time since 2022 energy crisis as consumers, industry feel the pain

Two high-speed trains collide in Spain

Caretaker role could limit Netanyahu but not rule out war with Iran

An oil spill off the United Arab Emirates that has prompted temporary restrictions on fishing and on access to several beaches has raised concerns over the risk of environmental contamination and questions about the potential impact on desalination plants

In Lebanese village near Israeli troops, farmers brave danger to harvest their olives

Healey seeks to steer UK through 'difficult moment' with low-key budget

Zelenskiy holds briefing in The Hague

British actor and comedian Russell Brand arrived at Southwark Crown Court to give evidence in his trial where he is accused of three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and an attempted indecent assault involving six women between 1999 and 2009

Iran's Revolutionary Court sentences director Panahi to jail term, travel ban

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said next week's US midterm elections had no role in the decision to keep interest rates unchanged

Hello Kitty maker Sanrio has cancelled a collaboration with a Japanese TV spy show after a backlash in China, the second incident in days to highlight the tightrope foreign firms and celebrities must walk in the lucrative market

🔊 Reuters correspondent @david_latona visited the site of a tragic train crash in Spain. Find out what he saw on today's episode of the Reuters World News podcast

Australia's Star Entertainment fined $183 million for anti-money laundering law breaches

Stellantis shares leap on bullish cost cuts, cash flow comments

Families of Spain train crash victims gather

German court weighs Bulgaria's extradition request in Starlink fire case

US consumer watchdog's information security 'not effective,' watchdog finds

Explainer: How could the oil spill off the UAE coast affect desalination plants?

Lynn and Paul Montoya sold their house and cars ‌in Wyoming ‌so they could buy a $179,000 cabin on the residential Villa Vie Odyssey cruise, plus roughly $6,000 a month in fees, to spend their retirement sailing the globe. Here’s how that dream sailed into the sunset

India's top money managers are launching a flurry of funds in a tax-neutral hub to absorb the record sums that domestic investors are sending overseas, frustrated by weak returns at home and craving exposure to AI-related assets

From crypto flooding the US midterms to Argentina's President Javier Milei being cleared of fraud, we round up the crypto stories of the week

Russell Brand says friends abandoned him after 'devastating' sex crime allegations

A banker, a chemist, a cardiologist, a basketball star? After sweeping Serbia's former President Aleksandar Vucic from power, which of these will Serbia's student protest movement choose as the country's next leader?

Anthropic tells California governor courts should be able to block risky AI models

At least six people were killed and power supply in several areas along India's eastern coast remained disrupted on October 29, a day after Cyclone Arnab barrelled through the region, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds, officials said

PODCAST: Takaichi’s success may backfire on Japan

China is now supporting more people aged 65 and above than children, underscoring the impact of its rapidly ageing population and a declining birth rate

COMMENTARY: Morning Bid: Information overload

Argentina sees EU soymeal opportunity as deforestation rules threaten Brazil trade