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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran executed a man accused of spying for its arch-rival Israel on Monday, the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan said, naming the defendant “Bahman Choubi-asl”.
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(Reuters) -The U.S. and Israel are very close to an agreement on President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza after talks between special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said in a post on social media website X on Sunday, citing a senior U.S. official.
The official added that Hamas still needs to agree, Ravid said in the post.
Earlier in the day, Trump said he hopes to finalize a Gaza peace plan proposal in a meeting on Monday with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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HANOI (Reuters) -Typhoon Bualoi made landfall in northern central Vietnam in the early hours of Monday, damaging houses and knocking down power grids, with at least one person dead and 12 fishermen missing as the storm brought flooding rains and huge swells.
The typhoon was over Nghe An province as of 0800 (0100 GMT), with maximum wind speeds weakening to 88 kph from 117 kph when it made landfall hours earlier, according to the national weather forecast agency.
Before making landfall, Bualoi had moved along the country’s coastline for several hours, causing waves as high as eight metres, according to the national weather agency.
One person died after being caught in floodwater in Hue city, while 12 fishermen were missing after huge waves sank four fishing boats off Quang Tri province, state media reported.
Ahead of the typhoon hitting, the government evacuated more than 28,500 people, while hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed as four airports in central provinces were closed.
The cyclone has triggered heavy rains across most of Vietnam since Saturday, and authorities have warned of the risk of severe floods and landslides.
Rainfall in several parts of the country was forecast to hit 500 millimetres from Sunday night through Tuesday, according to the weather agency.
With a long coastline facing the South China Sea, Vietnam is prone to typhoons that are often formed east of the Philippines, where at least 10 people died after Bualoi hit last week.
(Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by John Mair)
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(Reuters) -Talks on reducing strategic nuclear weapons must first be conducted between Russia and the U.S., but the arsenals of Britain and France will ultimately have to be included in negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Peskov’s remarks come amid a Kremlin proposal to the U.S. this month to voluntarily maintain for a year the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in their New START arms control treaty once it expires next year if the U.S. does the same.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but the issue was up to U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. president has said he wants to open denuclearisation talks with Russia and China.
“Naturally, we have to start talks at the bilateral level. New START is after all a bilateral document,” Peskov told TASS.
“But in the long term, you cannot remain abstract with these arsenals. All the more so that these arsenals are a component of the overall problem of global European security and strategic stability.”
New START was signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, came into force a year later and was extended in 2021 for five more years after U.S. President Joe Biden took office.
In 2023, Putin suspended Russia’s participation, but Moscow said it would continue to observe the warhead limits. Putin this month made his offer to maintain the treaty’s limits as Ukraine tries to convince Trump to impose harsher sanctions on Russia over its February 2022 invasion of its smaller neighbour.
Russia and the U.S. have by far the biggest nuclear arsenals in the world. New START caps the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads at 1,550 and the number of delivery vehicles – missiles, submarines and bomber planes – at 700 on each side.
France and Britain, which were never a party to New START or its precursor treaties, have much smaller arsenals numbering between 250 and 300 warheads each.
(Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Share markets got off to a cautious start in Asia on Monday as investors braced for a possible shutdown of the U.S. government, which would in turn delay publication of the September payrolls report and a raft of other key data.
President Donald Trump will meet with the top Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress later on Monday to discuss extending government funding. Without a deal a shutdown would begin from Wednesday, which is also when new U.S. tariffs on heavy trucks, pharmaceuticals and other items go into effect.
A protracted closure could leave the Federal Reserve flying blind on the economy when it meets on October 29.
“If the shutdown lasts beyond the Fed meeting, the Fed will rely on private data for its policy decisions,” analysts at BofA wrote in a note. “On the margin, we think this may lower the likelihood of an October cut, but only marginally.”
Markets imply a 90% chance of a Fed cut in October, with around a 65% probability of another in December.
The BofA analysts estimated a shutdown would subtract only a slight 0.1% percentage point from economic growth for every week it lasted, while noting the impact on financial markets had been minimal in the past.
They cautioned that should the government use the closure to lay off workers permanently, then it could have a more meaningful impact on payrolls and consumer confidence.
There is also much uncertainty about what might happen at a meeting of U.S. generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, called by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth which Trump will reportedly attend.
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Otherwise, analysts expected equities to be supported by buying for the new quarter which historically tends to be a positive one for stocks. The S&P 500 has gained 74% of the time in the fourth quarters.
S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures were both up 0.2%, having eased modestly last week.
EUROSTOXX 50 futures added 0.3%, as did FTSE futures and DAX futures.
Japan’s Nikkei slipped 0.7%, having risen 6% for September so far, while South Korea bounced 1.2%, bringing its gains for the month to 6.3%.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan firmed 0.4%, to be up almost 4% for the month.
In bond markets, Treasuries found support at 4.17% having been pressured last week by a run of upbeat U.S. economic data, that led investors to pare back expectations for how low Fed rates might ultimately go.
A host of central bank speakers are on the diary this week, with at least four from the Fed and the European Central Bank appearing on Monday alone.
The dollar index was steady at 98.134 having benefited from the batch of better economic news last week. The euro held at $1.1708, in the lower half of its recent $1.1646 to $1.1918 range.
The dollar stood at 149.49 yen, after rallying just over 1% last week and away from the September low around 145.50.
In commodity markets, gold was holding just below a record high at $3,764 an ounce. [GOL/]
Oil prices slipped as crude started to flow through a pipeline from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to Turkey for the first time in 2-1/2 years. [O/R]
Reuters reported OPEC+ will likely approve another oil production increase of at least 137,000 barrels per day at its meeting next Sunday.
Brent dropped 0.8% to $69.57 a barrel, while U.S. crude eased 0.9% to $65.14 per barrel.
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CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova’s ruling pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has won 40% of the votes counted so far in Sunday’s parliamentary election versus 31.5% for the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc, with 28% of votes counted, according to the country’s Central Electoral Commission.
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We are witnessing a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence that will transform how professionals work. The emergence of agentic AI—systems capable of autonomous reasoning, decision-making, and task execution—represents the next evolutionary leap beyond today’s generative AI tools. But as this technology matures, a critical reality is becoming clear: not all companies are positioned to deliver truly reliable, professional-grade agentic AI.
The difference lies in four essential components that agentic AI requires to function effectively in professional environments: advanced reasoning models, comprehensive domain-specific content and expertise, and access to the tools professional use. Companies that possess all four will thrive; those that lack even one will struggle to compete.
First, advanced reasoning models form the cognitive foundation. These aren’t simply large language models trained on internet data—they’re sophisticated systems capable of multi-step reasoning, logical inference, and contextual understanding within specific professional domains.
Second, comprehensive, authoritative content and expertise is crucial. Agentic AI systems must access vetted, structured information that professionals can trust. This isn’t just about having large datasets; it’s about having the right data, that’s properly curated and continuously updated.
Third, you also need subject matter experts – lawyers, tax professionals, risk specialists – to provide the human intelligence that trains, validates, and guides these systems. This expertise ensures that agentic AI understands not just what information exists, but how it should be applied in real-world professional contexts. If you think of content as being the book smarts, subject matter expertise is the street smarts guiding how work gets done, resolving problems and nuances in professional work.
Four, professional-grade AI assistants need access to the same tools that professionals use to perform professional work. Without tool access, AI assistants can only provide advice or suggestions—you cannot delegate actual tasks because the AI lack the means to complete work successfully. An example is if you want AI to solve tax problems, it needs to know how to use a calculator.
The scarcity of these four components is already reshaping our industry. We’re seeing major consequences that underscore this reality.
We’re seeing a growing wave of strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Partnerships between AI providers and content owners, like Harvey and LexisNexis, are becoming increasingly common. AI companies are seeking access to authoritative content and domain expertise they cannot develop internally, while established information providers are partnering to enhance their AI capabilities. Few companies are like Thomson Reuters and already have access to both. We’re likely to see more of these alliances as companies recognize they don’t have all four components, and they’re essential.
Perhaps nowhere is the competitive pressure more visible than in the fierce battle for talent. The intensity of this competition has reached new heights. We’ve seen the disputes between Meta and OpenAI, where both companies are aggressively recruiting each other’s top researchers and engineers. But the war for talent has evolved beyond technical roles, and now the battles is heating up for the subject matter experts that provide the judgment and experience that trains, validates and guides these systems. Thomson Reuters has more than 4,500 subject matter experts, including lawyers and accountants, but this is a gap many organizations are now trying to close so they can build agentic tools that work the ways professionals do.
The third major consequence we’re witnessing is perhaps the most transformative: companies are fundamentally reimagining organizational structures and creating entirely new categories of professional roles. As organizations scramble to acquire the agentic AI trifecta, they’re discovering that traditional job descriptions and reporting structures simply don’t work. This shift is creating unprecedented demand for new hybrid roles: prompt engineers who refine human-AI interactions, agent orchestrators who manage complex AI workflows, and human-in-the-loop specialists who handle exceptions and ensure quality. As companies evolve to meet the needs of agentic, they’re rethinking everything from career progression to performance metrics in an age where success depends on human-AI collaboration. Thomson Reuters began this work more than two years ago, and we’re constantly adapting, making sure our teams are aligned to deliver the most advance agentic AI for our customers.
The agentic AI revolution will accelerate market consolidation and force strategic decisions across our industry. Companies will need to choose: build these capabilities internally, partner with those who have them, or risk being left behind.
The winners will be those who recognize that agentic AI isn’t just about algorithms—it’s about the intersection of advanced technology, authoritative content and expertise, and professional tools. As this technology reshapes how professionals work, the companies that invest in all four will define the future of professional services.
The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune.
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Poland said early Wednesday that multiple Russian drones entered and were shot down over its territory with help from NATO allies, describing the incident as an “act of aggression” carried out during a wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine.Several European leaders said they believed Russia was intentionally escalating the war, and NATO was discussing the incident in a meeting. It came three days after Russia’s largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began, an attack that for the first time hit a key government building in Kyiv.“Russia’s war is escalating, not ending,” European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. “Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental.”Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on social media that Polish airspace was violated by multiple Russian drones. “Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down,” Tusk said.Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote on X that more than 10 objects crossed into Polish air space, but he did not specify an exact number. He thanked NATO Air Command and The Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force for supporting the action with F-35 fighter jets.Polish airspace has been violated multiple times since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but there has been nothing on this scale either in Poland or in any other Western nation along the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union.Drones rattle Baltic NATO membersLeaders in the strategically located Baltic states of Lithuanian, Latvia and Estonia — the NATO members that are most nervous about Russian aggression — expressed deep concerns.“Russia is deliberately expanding its aggression, posing an ever-growing threat to Europe,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda wrote on X. Estonia’s foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said that the overnight attacks on Ukraine and violations of Polish airspace were “yet another stark reminder that Russia is not just a threat to Ukraine, but to all of Europe and NATO.”Bernard Blaszczuk, mayor of the village of Wyryki in Lublin region, told TVP Info that a house was hit by “either a missile or a drone, we don’t know yet.” He said people were inside the building but nobody was hurt.The Polish armed forces said Wednesday morning that a search for possible crash sites is ongoing and urged people not to approach, touch or move any objects they see, warning that they may pose a threat and could contain hazardous material.Warsaw’s Chopin Airport suspended flights for several hours, citing the closure of airspace due to military operations.Russian objects have entered Polish airspace beforePoland has complained about Russian objects entering its airspace during attacks on Ukraine before.In August, Poland’s defense minister said that a flying object that crashed and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland was identified as a Russian drone, and called it a provocation by Russia.In March, Poland scrambled jets after a Russian missile briefly passed through Polish air space on its way to a target in western Ukraine, and in 2022, a missile that was likely fired by Ukraine to intercept a Russian attack landed in Poland, killing two people.NATO members vow supportNATO said its air defenses supported Poland, and chief spokesperson Allison Hart said the military organization’s 32 national envoys will discuss the matter at a pre-planned meeting.Col. Martin O’Donnell, NATO’s Supreme Allied Powers Europe, said: “This is the first time NATO planes have engaged potential threats in Allied airspace.”Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof confirmed in a message on X that Dutch F-35 fighter jets stationed in Poland under NATO provided support to the Polish air force overnight.“Let me be clear: the violation of Polish airspace last night by Russian drones is unacceptable. It is further proof that the Russian war of aggression poses a threat to European security,” Schoof said in the Dutch language message on X.German Patriot defense systems in Poland were also placed “on alert,” and an Italian airborne early warning plane and an aerial refueler from NATO’s Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft fleet were launched, O’Donnell said.NATO, he said, “is committed to defending every kilometer of NATO territory, including our airspace.”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a message on Telegram that the deployment of European aircraft to intercept the drones was an “important precedent.”Russia must know the response to escalation “will be a clear and strong reaction from all partners,” Zelenskyy said.Russian attacks hit central and western UkraineUkraine’s Air Force says Russia fired 415 strike and decoy drones, as well as 42 cruise missiles and one ballistic missiles overnight.Ukrainian air defenses intercepted or jammed 386 drones and 27 cruise missiles, according to the report.“At least eight enemy UAVs crossed Ukraine’s state border in the direction of the Republic of Poland,” the Air Force message said.Russian drones injured three people in Ukraine’s western Khmelnytskyi region, its head Serhii Tiurin wrote on Telegram early Wednesday morning. He said a sewing factory was destroyed, a gas station and vehicles were damaged, and windows in several houses were blown out.One person was killed and one injured in Zhytomyr region overnight, regional administration head Vitalii Bunechko wrote on Telegram, while homes and businesses suffered damage.In Vinnytsia region, Russian drones damaged “civilian and industrial infrastructure,” according to regional head Natalia Zabolotna. Nearly 30 residential buildings were damaged and one person was injured.In Cherkasy region, several houses and a power grid were damaged in a Russian attack. In Zolotonosha district, a shock wave destroyed a barn killing two cows, regional head Ihor Taburets wrote on Telegram.The Russian Defense Ministry said in its morning report on Wednesday that it had destroyed 122 Ukrainian drones over various Russian regions overnight, including over the illegally annexed Crimea and areas of the Black Sea.___Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. AP writers Lorne Cook in Brussels and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
Poland said early Wednesday that multiple Russian drones entered and were shot down over its territory with help from NATO allies, describing the incident as an “act of aggression” carried out during a wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine.
Several European leaders said they believed Russia was intentionally escalating the war, and NATO was discussing the incident in a meeting. It came three days after Russia’s largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began, an attack that for the first time hit a key government building in Kyiv.
“Russia’s war is escalating, not ending,” European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. “Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on social media that Polish airspace was violated by multiple Russian drones. “Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down,” Tusk said.
Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote on X that more than 10 objects crossed into Polish air space, but he did not specify an exact number. He thanked NATO Air Command and The Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force for supporting the action with F-35 fighter jets.
Polish airspace has been violated multiple times since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but there has been nothing on this scale either in Poland or in any other Western nation along the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union.
Leaders in the strategically located Baltic states of Lithuanian, Latvia and Estonia — the NATO members that are most nervous about Russian aggression — expressed deep concerns.
“Russia is deliberately expanding its aggression, posing an ever-growing threat to Europe,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda wrote on X. Estonia’s foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said that the overnight attacks on Ukraine and violations of Polish airspace were “yet another stark reminder that Russia is not just a threat to Ukraine, but to all of Europe and NATO.”
Bernard Blaszczuk, mayor of the village of Wyryki in Lublin region, told TVP Info that a house was hit by “either a missile or a drone, we don’t know yet.” He said people were inside the building but nobody was hurt.
The Polish armed forces said Wednesday morning that a search for possible crash sites is ongoing and urged people not to approach, touch or move any objects they see, warning that they may pose a threat and could contain hazardous material.
Warsaw’s Chopin Airport suspended flights for several hours, citing the closure of airspace due to military operations.
Poland has complained about Russian objects entering its airspace during attacks on Ukraine before.
In August, Poland’s defense minister said that a flying object that crashed and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland was identified as a Russian drone, and called it a provocation by Russia.
In March, Poland scrambled jets after a Russian missile briefly passed through Polish air space on its way to a target in western Ukraine, and in 2022, a missile that was likely fired by Ukraine to intercept a Russian attack landed in Poland, killing two people.
NATO said its air defenses supported Poland, and chief spokesperson Allison Hart said the military organization’s 32 national envoys will discuss the matter at a pre-planned meeting.
Col. Martin O’Donnell, NATO’s Supreme Allied Powers Europe, said: “This is the first time NATO planes have engaged potential threats in Allied airspace.”
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof confirmed in a message on X that Dutch F-35 fighter jets stationed in Poland under NATO provided support to the Polish air force overnight.
“Let me be clear: the violation of Polish airspace last night by Russian drones is unacceptable. It is further proof that the Russian war of aggression poses a threat to European security,” Schoof said in the Dutch language message on X.
German Patriot defense systems in Poland were also placed “on alert,” and an Italian airborne early warning plane and an aerial refueler from NATO’s Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft fleet were launched, O’Donnell said.
NATO, he said, “is committed to defending every kilometer of NATO territory, including our airspace.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a message on Telegram that the deployment of European aircraft to intercept the drones was an “important precedent.”
Russia must know the response to escalation “will be a clear and strong reaction from all partners,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine’s Air Force says Russia fired 415 strike and decoy drones, as well as 42 cruise missiles and one ballistic missiles overnight.
Ukrainian air defenses intercepted or jammed 386 drones and 27 cruise missiles, according to the report.
“At least eight enemy UAVs crossed Ukraine’s state border in the direction of the Republic of Poland,” the Air Force message said.
Russian drones injured three people in Ukraine’s western Khmelnytskyi region, its head Serhii Tiurin wrote on Telegram early Wednesday morning. He said a sewing factory was destroyed, a gas station and vehicles were damaged, and windows in several houses were blown out.
One person was killed and one injured in Zhytomyr region overnight, regional administration head Vitalii Bunechko wrote on Telegram, while homes and businesses suffered damage.
In Vinnytsia region, Russian drones damaged “civilian and industrial infrastructure,” according to regional head Natalia Zabolotna. Nearly 30 residential buildings were damaged and one person was injured.
In Cherkasy region, several houses and a power grid were damaged in a Russian attack. In Zolotonosha district, a shock wave destroyed a barn killing two cows, regional head Ihor Taburets wrote on Telegram.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in its morning report on Wednesday that it had destroyed 122 Ukrainian drones over various Russian regions overnight, including over the illegally annexed Crimea and areas of the Black Sea.
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Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. AP writers Lorne Cook in Brussels and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
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CNN, the largest US news website, will charge $3.99 monthly for full site access, offering exclusive features, documentaries, and fewer ads. Some content, such as breaking news and the homepage, will remain free. This marks CNN’s latest effort to boost revenue amid challenges in the linear TV sector, with CEO Mark Thompson aiming to build a digital subscription business generating over $1 billion annually.
Reuters will offer full access globally for $1 per week or $4 per month. Reuters’ president, Paul Bascobert, emphasized that the new plan will support expanded coverage and investment in journalism. The subscription will launch in Canada in early October before expanding globally. Reuters previously delayed paywall plans due to a dispute with financial data provider Refinitiv but resumed the initiative after reaching an agreement earlier this year.
Both outlets see digital subscriptions as crucial for their future growth strategies, with Reuters targeting a global rollout and CNN aiming to recover from its earlier failed attempt at a subscription service, CNN+.
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