World leaders call for pause in conflict

Plus, China chases US and Russia guided-missile submarine capabilities.

View in Browser Sign up for Reuters newsletters Daily Briefing World leaders call for a pause to Israel-Hamas fighting, Ukrainian sappers return to work clearing land mines, and US House Republicans will see if Mike Johnson can win the speaker's gavel.   Plus, a zoo is saving endangered red wolves one dental checkup at a time.   By Kate Turton Today's Top News Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Khan Younis. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa ISRAEL AND HAMAS AT WAR Israel's military intensified its bombing of southern Gaza overnight after one of the deadliest days for Palestinians since the conflict began as world leaders called for a halt to fighting to allow aid into the besieged enclave. Follow the latest news from the war. Israel's military suggested that the United Nations ask Hamas for fuel supplies after the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip warned it would have to halt operations if no fuel was delivered. Senior Correspondent Nidal al Mugrahi speaks to the daily Reuters World News podcast from where his family have fled to in Khan Younis, southern Gaza - listen now for the latest on the mass displacements and struggles to bury the dead. IN OTHER NEWS China has launched its first nuclear-powered guided missile submarines, according to the Pentagon's latest report on China's military - giving it land and sea attack options once the sole province of US and Russian vessels. As US Republicans nominated Mike Johnson to lead the House of Representatives, women candidates are deliberately steering clear of the speaker fight. An off-duty pilot charged with trying to disable the engines of an Alaska Airlines jet in flight told police afterward he was suffering a nervous breakdown, had taken psychedelic mushrooms two days earlier and had not slept in 40 hours, court documents showed. Mexico's southern coast braced for Hurricane Otis as the Category 5 storm made landfall near the beach resorts of Acapulco, with the potential to cause "catastrophic damage," the US National Hurricane Center said. Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China is willing to cooperate with the US as both sides manage their differences and work together to respond to global challenges, according to Chinese state media. Racism towards Black people is growing in Europe, with Germany, Austria and Finland showing the highest rates of discrimination and harassment, a survey of first- and second-generation Black immigrants in 13 EU countries found. Business & Markets China's new sovereign bonds will help bolster the economic recovery, China's vice finance minister Zhu Zhongming said, as the government's stepped-up fiscal stimulus sharply raises its budget deficit. Here's what China is doing to shore up a shaky economy. Consumer Reports said it has found "concerning" levels of lead and cadmium in chocolate products, and renewed its call for Hershey to reduce the amounts of heavy metals its chocolate contains. The Bank of England looks set to keep interest rates on hold next week but also stress that it is far from relaxing its fight against Britain's high inflation rate, despite growing worries about a recession. US states are suing Meta and its Instagram unit, accusing them of fueling a youth mental health crisis by making their social media platforms addictive. The attorneys general of 33 states, including California and New York, said Meta knowingly induced young children and teenagers into compulsive social media use. Japan's government is considering spending around $33 billion for payouts to low-income households and an income tax cut in a package of measures to cushion the blow to households from rising living costs, three government officials told Reuters. Honda and General Motors are scrapping plans to jointly develop affordable electric vehicles, a Honda spokesperson said, confirming a Bloomberg News report. Sign up for the Reuters Auto File newsletter to stay up to date with the fast-paced world of automotive technology. Despite losing limbs, Ukrainian sappers return to work clearing land mines Oleksii Poliakov during a demining operation near Izum town. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova Andrii Ilkiv, a Ukrainian police sapper, had his leg amputated below the knee after a land mine blew up beneath him in September 2022.   By May the following year he was back at work, standing on a prosthetic limb, sweeping for and defusing mines.   The 37-year-old father of four is one of 14 sappers who have returned to their demining jobs in a national police unit of some 100 people, despite being wounded in blasts while clearing mines during Russia's invasion. Ukraine estimates about a third of the country is potentially strewn with mines  And Finally... Dental exams and teeth-cleaning are part of the zoo's managed care program. Katie Cotterill/Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium/Handout The endangered red wolf, the lone wolf species native only to the United States, is slowly coming back thanks to a breeding and reintroduction program that also takes special care of the wolves' teeth.   The Tacoma-based Point Defiance Zoo is conducting dental exams and teeth-cleaning in its managed care program. Broken teeth "would prevent them from eating meat very well," said Karen Wolf, the zoo's head veterinarian. Read more: US zoo saving endangered red wolf, one dental checkup at a time Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here.   Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. Reuters Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement © 2023 Thomson Reuters. 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