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Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing By Linda Noakes Hello. Nine days after the flood disaster, two people have been pulled alive from a Nepal hydropower tunnel. A deadly strike on an Iranian wedding was likely a direct hit by a US munition, a Reuters investigation shows. And shares inch higher ahead of US jobs data after the Fed's Waller soothes bonds. Today's Top News   A survivor is carried by members of a search and rescue team in Rasuwa, Nepal. Rescuers pulled two survivors from a tunnel linked to a hydropower station on Nepal's Trishuli River, nine days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through its valley, killing more than 1,300 people and leaving over 5,600 missing. An explosion that ripped through a wedding celebration in southern Iran, killing four people and injuring at least 68 others, likely resulted from a direct hit by a US munition and not a ricochet off another target, a Reuters visual investigation shows. Russian President Vladimir Putin said there was a chance of reaching an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said US negotiators trying to broker a deal would soon visit both Moscow and Kyiv. President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce a new US Postal Service rule tightening the use of mail-in ballots, moving swiftly after ‌a judge temporarily blocked the regulation. The Pentagon is temporarily rescinding recently published clinical guidance for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for service members aged 30 and older, a US official told Reuters. Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial will begin a seventh day of deliberations after repeatedly hitting an impasse over whether to convict her of killing her three young children — a tragedy her lawyer says was driven by postpartum psychosis. Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they first began investigating them. Business & Markets   Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. REUTERS/Manami Yamada Nvidia is spending $13 billion to buy Hugging Face, the platform at the heart of open-source AI development. Technology reporter Stephen Nellis has more on the deal on the Reuters World News podcast. A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter. World shares pushed higher ahead of US jobs data, while bonds found some much-needed relief after a top Federal Reserve official cooled rate-hike fears and dragged the dollar lower. In an interview with Reuters, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he is leaning toward keeping interest rates steady at the US central bank's policy meeting this month if the next batch of inflation data shows price pressures are continuing to moderate. Volkswagen shares hit an 11-week high after the supervisory board of Europe's largest automaker struck an ambitious turnaround agreement that put the focus on sweeping job cuts and averted a clash between major stakeholders. The Week Ahead Important US inflation data and a European Central Bank meeting take center stage next week, against the backdrop of a bond market selloff that has pushed borrowing costs to their highest in years. Here's all you need to know about the coming week in financial markets. Voters in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls on Sunday in an election where the far-right Alternative for Germany party is hoping to win power for the first time. Trump will now speak on both nights of ‌the Republican Party's unusual midterm convention next week — an expanded role that will compete for viewers with the start of the NFL season. How a French billionaire's news channel is boosting the far-right    The logo of CNEWS is seen on a microphone as journalists work at the National Assembly in Paris. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor Conservative pundit Philippe Bilger was a mainstay of the French news channel CNews, known for its hard line on immigration and crime. But after he criticised Israel's conduct in Gaza and defended the judiciary for convicting ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, his services were no longer needed. Bilger's removal in January underlines a sharp hardening of CNews' right-wing editorial line under reclusive billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré. Read more And Finally... Gloria Steinem attends the 'Make Equality Reality' event in Beverly Hills in 2014. REUTERS/Phil McCarten  Gloria Steinem, the American writer, lecturer, activist and organizer who fought for gender equality and women's civil and reproductive rights for more than five decades, has died aged 92. She championed the feminist movement from the late 1960s onwards and inspired generations of women. Read more   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website   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. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. 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