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A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, July 13, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
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- Bangkok city authorities are considering a committee to carry out random night-time checks on venues after a deadly fire ripped through a pub killing dozens. Correspondent Chayut Setboonsarng in Bangkok tells the Reuters World News podcast while previous inspections may have missed the full picture.
- A Chinese-born American seismologist who has published US-funded work on detecting North Korean nuclear tests has been detained in China for nearly two years and faces trial on spying charges.
- Firefighters battled through the night to tackle a blaze that tore through a historic forest near Paris, with at least two people arrested on suspicion of having started the fire near one of France's best-known royal palaces.
- For Ukraine and its supporters, the sudden death of US Senator Lindsey Graham raises an important question: Without a close ally of Trump advocating loudly for Ukraine, will his administration's recent tilt in favor of Kyiv last?
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot a driver to death in a coastal town of Maine, less than a week after an ICE agent in Houston, Texas, shot and killed a man in a traffic stop during a deportation crackdown there.
- Trump signed orders that slashed the size of two national monuments in southern Utah by more than 90% to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region, the White House said.
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The entrance to xAI's gas turbine facility in Southaven, Mississippi, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm
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- xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines — about double what the company has publicly acknowledged — for a data center project. The turbines are part of a battle over whether the AI boom is adding disproportionate pollution burdens to communities of color
- Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is expected to draw out his plans for the Fed and thoughts about the economy during two days of testimony before lawmakers in Congress. At the outset at least, Warsh's initial steps have been seen as showing more distance from Trump than not.
- When South Korean President Lee Jae Myung set a 5,000-point target for the KOSPI last year, it looked wildly ambitious and needed a market that was going sideways to nearly double. Just barely a year later, the index blasted through 8,000 in a record run driven by an AI-fueled surge.
- BMW is betting on its long-awaited Neue Klasse electric cars to revive its fortunes in China after two years of declining sales. The problem for the German automaker is that China's EV race may have already moved on without it.
- McKinsey is using AI while advising clients on rolling it out. In this episode of The Big View podcast, finance chief Yuval Atsmon talks to Peter Thal Larsen about taming token bills, the threat to jobs, and the new appeal of generalists.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr became health secretary in 2025. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
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A US health secretary prepared to spend billions to seek a link between vaccines and autism. Vaccine skeptics shaping policy. A proposal to eliminate the entire federal immunization schedule for American children.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has brought a series of once-unthinkable public-health proposals to the highest levels of the Trump administration since becoming health secretary early last year, according to Reuters interviews with 16 current and former officials with direct knowledge of the discussions.
The officials, from the US health department and White House, shared details of internal discussions on condition of anonymity. Their first-hand accounts of Kennedy’s previously unreported efforts reveal a tenacious activist who has pushed through some of the biggest changes to US vaccine policy in decades – and who sought to go much further than previously known to dismantle the status quo.
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A participant guides a blindfolded partner along a stone path at Naksansa temple in Yangyang, South Korea. REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon
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In a picturesque Buddhist temple, young South Korean men and women walk hand-in-hand, one wearing a blindfold and the other describing the path ahead as they walk towards a gate where legend tells them dreams come true.
Observed by a monk, the trust-building walk is part of a two-day Buddhist matchmaking retreat at Naksansa, a hilltop temple founded in 671 CE during the Silla Dynasty on South Korea’s northeastern coast in what is now Yangyang County.
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