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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. Students and teachers march in France on the biggest day of high school protests, the WHO says there are no signs of further Russian infections after a plague lab worker died, and California's governor condemns Trump's 'let 'em take Los Angeles' comments. Today's Top News   A fire in Lyon during a protest, October 6, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Students, teachers and parents marched in cities across France and protesters blockaded hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed and dilapidated classrooms. Follow our live updates. Light attack aircraft and military vehicles have arrived at the new China-Laos joint training facility, according to satellite images reviewed by Reuters. Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance to retake the coast around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha, the government said. In response, the Houthis ‌said they had attacked key locations in Saudi Arabia. President Donald Trump's approval rating held at a record ‌low in recent days, as many Hispanic voters panned his job performance and planned to spurn his Republican Party in next month's midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday. Meanwhile, in another poll, an overwhelming majority of Americans said that it is inappropriate to use taxpayer funds for TV ads featuring the president around an election.  California's Governor Gavin Newsom has lashed out at President Trump for remarks to a crowd of his supporters in Nebraska's farm belt suggesting that Iran could "take out" a major US city ‌like Los Angeles or San Diego. Cornell University students staged a mass rally voicing solidarity with a classmate whose gang-rape allegations have ignited a national uproar and demanding that the Ivy League school take firmer action against sexual violence on campus. The Reuters World News podcast has more. Russia's health watchdog said that no cases of plague had been ‌detected among people who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died on Friday. Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin", the award-giving ‌body said. Business & Markets   Aragon has become one of Europe's fastest-growing digital infrastructure hubs and is set to see more than $67.55 billion investment in data centers and digital ‌infrastructure in the next decade. However, amid global concerns over data centers' resource consumption, Spain's national government is seeking to impose new resource requirements. Starbucks has been sued by consumers who said the coffee chain falsely advertised eight protein beverages as "sugar-free" because they contain lactose, a naturally occurring sugar ‌in milk. McDonald's has been sued in federal court in Chicago in a proposed nationwide class action alleging the fast-food company illegally ‌coordinates menu prices across its franchises and company-owned restaurants through an AI-powered pricing system. US Vice President JD Vance said that a long-planned liquefied natural gas pipeline ‌in Alaska was going to happen, but there were still some details that needed to be worked out with South Korea. The notion that stocks and bonds follow a rational path has been widely debunked. But are idiosyncrasies becoming more visible? In this episode of The Big View podcast Peter Thal Larsen and Alex Edmans, author of ‘The Madness of Markets’, debate how the rules of investing have changed. Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro wins big without his name on the ballot   A person wears an image of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro and a US President Donald Trump hat, in Brasilia, Brazil. REUTERS/Diego Herculano The biggest winner in Brazil's blockbuster weekend election did not even appear on the ballot. Banned from public office, former President Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest, serving a 27-year sentence for a coup plot after his 2022 election loss. The 71-year-old watched from ‌confinement on Sunday as his eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, scored an upset victory over leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first round of the presidential election. Read more And Finally... Castellers de Vilafranca form a human tower called "castell" during a biannual human tower competition in Tarragona, Spain, October 4. REUTERS/Albert Ge Teams compete to build towering human pyramids at Catalonia's largest castells competition in Tarragona, Spain. View gallery   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. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. 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