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Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. Details are still emerging about the incident where passengers foiled a bid to crash a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, after one of the pilots stabbed the other. In the US, death row inmate Christa Pike survives Tennessee's effort to execute her, and Trump launches a midterm campaign push as Republicans face tough races. Plus, Anthropic's IPO pitch embraces AI's promise and peril. Today's Top News   A plane, carrying passengers who were on the FlyDubai aircraft bound for Israel from the United Arab Emirates. September 30, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad A pilot brawl, then a rapid descent Questions loomed over the motives and background of a co-pilot who stabbed the captain of a passenger jet on its way to Israel, in what Israeli officials have said was an apparent attempt to crash ‌the plane with more than 170 people on board. The Reuters World News podcast has the latest. When flydubai flight FZ1073 suddenly plunged from over 30,000 feet, passenger Almog Italie said it felt like the plane was passing through "massive turbulence" before he ‌realised a life-or-death struggle had unfolded in the cockpit. Passengers recount the chaos on the  flydubai flight. In other news Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection, prison officials said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries. President Donald Trump travels to Texas and Oklahoma to begin a 32-day campaign blitz aimed at bolstering Republican candidates as his party fights to hold onto its slim congressional majorities in November's midterm elections. US officials believe a Chinese invasion of Taiwan before 2028 is increasingly unlikely despite Chinese President Xi Jinping's instructions for his military to be ready by 2027 to take the democratically governed island by force, if needed, people familiar with US thinking said. Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea. Swiss glaciers are shrinking rapidly after suffering one of their worst years of ice loss during ‌a record-breaking European heatwave. These findings in a report by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation underscore the accelerating pace of glacier retreat. Business & Markets   The Trump administration has told Germany and France to release emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, according to three people close to the discussions. Anthropic is planning what could be the largest initial public offering in history. But if AI continues on its current trajectory, humans may not be around much longer to enjoy it. Chinese hackers have been impersonating US AI experts, including ‌a former government official, to try to steal emails from experts in AI at think tanks, universities, and other organizations, the cybersecurity company Proofpoint said. British 30-year government bond yields surged to their highest since early 1998, following another sharp rise in US Treasury yields even as oil ‌prices steadied on renewed hopes of an end to the Iran war. The $160 billion Swiss banking giant UBS is facing an enormous capital bill following its rescue of Credit Suisse. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists debate whether the government is right to demand higher regulatory buffers and how the lender might actually leave home. Nvidia's bet that its chips can finance the AI boom gets a Wall Street reality check   Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang at Dumfries House in Cumnock, Britain. Jonathan Brady/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Nvidia's mammoth financing plan has opened a debate on Wall Street about how much its advanced chips and the infrastructure around them are worth. The answer for banks and investors seems to be: Not as much as Nvidia thinks. Some lenders want higher guarantees than the company had originally outlined, even for Nvidia's industry-leading AI processing power, as they try to calculate how long the revenue from its chips will last, banking sources and credit managers told Reuters, some requesting anonymity. Read more And Finally... Kenya's Sabastian Sawe crosses the finish line to win the men's elite race at the London marathon, 2026. REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File Photo Hoping to run the London Marathon in 2027? Well the schedule for next year's two-day event was decided by a game of rock-paper-scissors ‌involving the marathon world record holder and 2026 men's champion Sabastian Sawe, organisers said. Kenyan Sawe, who became the first man to run a sub-two hour marathon in a record-eligible race ⁠as he finished the 2026 London race in one hour 59 minutes and 30 seconds, lost out to fellow champion and women's wheelchair record-holder Catherine Debrunner. That ensured the traditional Sunday was reserved for the women's elite and wheelchair races. The men's races will be held the day before, on April ‌24. 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. 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