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Hamas says Gaza truce talks remain deadlocked despite reports of progress, TikTok's popularity among European politicians rises despite security fears, and the latest on Janet Yellen's trip to China.   Plus, millions across North America await a total solar eclipse.    By Edson Caldas

Today's Top News

A view of the rubble at the destroyed Al Shifa Hospital. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus/Handout via REUTERS

A Hamas official said no progress was made at a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo also attended by delegations from Israel, Qatar, and the US, shortly after Egyptian sources said headway had been made on the agenda. Listen to Correspondent Dan Williams on the likelihood of a breakthrough. Russia said Ukraine struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station controlled by Russian forces three times and demanded the West respond, though Kyiv said it had nothing to do with the attacks. Separately, Russia launched more than two dozen attack drones on Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure, officials said. At least 94 people died, including children, and 26 are missing after a ferry boat capsized off the northern coast of Mozambique, an official from the country's Maritime Transport Institute said. The vessel was an overloaded fishing boat and was not licensed to transport people, according to the official. UNITED STATES Donald Trump next week is set to become the first former US president to face a criminal trial - a case involving hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels that carries major political and legal ramifications as he runs to regain the White House. Follow the latest on the 2024 presidential election. The Democratic-majority Senate is likely to bring a quick end this week to House Republicans' months-long drive to impeach President Joe Biden's top border official, who they accuse of failing to deter record-setting levels of illegal immigration. We have an explainer. SOCIAL MEDIA A Supreme Court judge in Brazil opened an inquiry into Elon Musk after the billionaire said he would reactivate accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk has said the restrictions were unconstitutional and called on Justice Alexandre de Moraes to resign. A vanguard of European politicians is embracing TikTok, calculating that the need to reach younger voters outweighs security concerns. With European elections approaching in June, mainstream politicians are wary of ceding ground to fringe parties who have successfully exploited its short video format.

Business & Markets

Janet Yellen and People's Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng in Beijing. REUTERS/Florence Lo

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by Chinese imports as she wrapped up four days of meetings. This was Yellen's second trip in nine months to further ease strained ties between the world's two largest economies. The United States will award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's US unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans. TSMC agreed to expand its planned investment by $25 billion to $65 billion and to add a third Arizona plant by 2030. Synchron, a rival to Musk's Neuralink brain implant startup, is preparing to recruit patients for a large-scale clinical trial required to seek commercial approval for its device, its chief executive told Reuters. The company is farther along in the process of testing its brain implant than Neuralink. An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 fell off during takeoff on Sunday in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to open an investigation. No one was injured. Here's what we know about the incident so far. Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a new report said. The gases are hydrofluorocarbons, a range of chemicals used mostly for cooling in industry and retail.

Millions await total solar eclipse

Members of the Debenham family and friends, who travelled from Utah, Las Vegas, and Illinois to experience the total solar eclipse together. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

A total solar eclipse will have millions of people across North America gazing toward the heavens as the moon completely blocks the sun for more than four minutes in some locales. It will be viewable, weather permitting, along a path starting in Mexico and then crossing through the US and into Canada. Here is what to expect. And we also look at the impact on the travel industry.

And Finally...

Briton becomes first person to run length of Africa. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Extreme marathon runner Russ Cook completed his run along the entire length of Africa after traveling through 16 countries, with the 352-day odyssey including being robbed at gunpoint and suffering food poisoning. "The first person ever to run the entire length of Africa. Mission complete," the 27-year-old said. He raised more than half a millions pounds for charity along the way.

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