| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, August 26, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. The Fed's 'raise and hold' inflation gamble is in the spotlight, SpaceX and T-Mobile plan to connect mobile phones to satellites, and it's eat or heat this winter for shocked Europeans | | | | | Today's biggest stories  An overview of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and fires in Ukraine, August 24, 2022 WORLD The world narrowly escaped a radiation disaster when electricity to Europe's largest nuclear power plant was cut for hours, Ukraine's president said, urging international bodies to act faster to force Russian troops to vacate the site. Here's what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine conflict right now.
For nearly 70 years an imagined line running down the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China has helped keep the peace, but the so-called median line is looking increasingly meaningless as China's modernized navy asserts its strength. Recent visits by guests from the United States have reinforced Taiwan's determination to defend itself, President Tsai Ing-wen said as she met the latest U.S. lawmaker to arrive on the island.
Japan will spend $1.83 million on a state funeral for slain former leader Shinzo Abe, the government said, despite growing opposition from a public angered by revelations of the ruling party's ties to the Unification Church.
Mediated talks over the status of ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have failed to ease tensions - fueled by a dispute over car number plates - between Belgrade and authorities in Pristina, Serbia's president said. After a bloody war in the late 1990s, predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, something Belgrade - with the backing of China, Russia and five EU member states - refuses to recognize.
French European lawmakers are urging the European Union's executive to take measures to end British discharges of raw sewage into shared waters, part of what they say is an unacceptable lowering of environmental standards since Brexit. Britain and its people will always be allies of France, President Emmanuel Macron said, after the frontrunner to be Britain's next prime minister said she had yet to decide if he was a friend or an enemy.
|  President Joe Biden speaks at a Democratic National Committee rally at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland, August 25, 2022 U.S. The U.S. Justice Department is expected to make public today a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the August 8 FBI search of former president Donald Trump's Florida home, a move that could shed more light on the evidence that led to the unprecedented search.
President Joe Biden had harsh words to describe Trump-allied Republicans, as he held his first political rally in the run-up to November elections, accusing the group of embracing violence and hatred, and saying they edged toward "semi-fascism" at an earlier fund-raising stop.
A federal judge in Texas threw out the state's ban on people between 18 and 20 years old carrying handguns in what appears to be the first major judicial decision since a landmark ruling on weapons rights by the Supreme Court in June.
The E.coli bacteria outbreak in four Midwest states from an unknown source has affected 47 more people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, with a majority of the total 84 reported to have sandwiches at Wendy's.
Spanking is staging a comeback this school year in the classrooms of one small town in southwestern Missouri, where the district will now allow corporal punishment for any unruly student whose parents give their blessing.
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