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Firefighters work at a site hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv. REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov
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- Russian strikes killed 16 people and injured more than 40 in Kyiv and the surrounding region as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a failure by Ukraine's allies to replenish its stock of air defence missiles was costing lives.
- Total US debt has topped $40 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department said, drawing fresh warnings that a fiscal crisis is brewing as ballooning costs for social safety-net programs and interest payments far outstrip revenues held back by tax cuts.
- US President Donald Trump warned of economic consequences against any country that provided "any type of lifeline to Iran" as the United States looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel nearly six months ago.
- The founder of China Evergrande Group, the world's most-indebted property developer, was sentenced to life in prison by a Chinese court, five years after the firm's collapse shook the nation's economy and financial markets.Here's everything you need to know about Hui Ka Yan.
- A computer science student in Texas stumbled across an attempt to sabotage a piece of open-source software on the code-sharing site GitHub. After the sabotage attempt was thwarted, he discovered he had actually been tangling with an autonomous artificial-intelligence agent that had run amok.
- More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside US military information, attracting copycat bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable by foreign adversaries.
- As thousands more satellites enter orbit, astronomers may face mounting difficulties in observing the cosmos, according to a study by the European Southern Observatory, which operates telescopes in northern Chile.
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A hyperrealistic silicon face for robots is displayed at the Magic Cube Robot booth at the 2026 World Robot Conference, in Beijing, China. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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- Chinese robot makers showed off humanoids sorting parcels, packing mobile phones and helping with household chores at a Beijing conference seeking to demonstrate a shift from crowd-pleasing displays to broader commercial use.
- A cancer vaccine that targets melanoma has raised hopes of a new avenue to treat many types of tumours. Moderna and Merck say a large-scale trial of their vaccine was successful. And, as Global Health Editor Michele Gershberg tells the Reuters World News podcast, it's also had a positive impact on Moderna's shares.
- The US and Canada are closing in on a trade deal in which Washington could cut some contentious tariff rates on Canadian-built cars and trucks, and key metals, a source familiar with the matter said.
- Taylor Farms, the produce supplier at the center of the massive US cyclosporiasis outbreak, changed the way that America eats after launching branded, prepackaged and washed chopped salads more than a decade ago. Read how.
- A growing campaign to tax offshore wealth is forcing wealthy Chinese people to rethink their trust structures and investment holdings, lawyers and advisors say, as Beijing sharpens its focus on capital outflows and rule enforcement amid growing fiscal strains.
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Crypto, AI and betting firms fuel record spending on the 2026 midterms
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Trump shakes hands with Brian Armstrong, Coinbase Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, at the White House in Washington D.C. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo
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A handful of billionaires and companies are driving corporate spending in US midterm elections this year, and they aren’t the usual power brokers who have sat atop the political food chain in Washington in previous decades.
Crypto companies, artificial intelligence firms and online betting have emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 midterm races, driving a record amount of business spending on congressional contests, according to campaign finance watchdogs and interviews with more than a dozen political strategists from both parties.
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Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in Sydney, Australia. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo
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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the US, a source close to the couple said.
The couple, known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were moving with their two children from California to Britain for an extended period and the children would begin school there in September, the person close to them said, confirming details that were reported in the media.
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