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Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing By Claire Beers Hello. Weeks of student demonstrations in France turned violent over the weekend, with Macron pointing to security failings. The US denied pausing intelligence sharing with Ukraine. And global food inflation is expected to intensify as supply shocks pile up. Plus, the man behind “The Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men” tells Culture Current why he remains optimistic about television. Today's Top News   A person raises their arm during civil unrest in Paris, France. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor  France protests President Emmanuel Macron appealed for calm a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in ‌years, with thousands arrested and shops looted or damaged after protests over high prices and declining public services. Macron declined Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer ‌to resign after widespread weekend rioting, the Elysee presidential office said. Residents in Limoges recoiled in horror at the city's fire-ravaged town hall, an ornate 19th-century neo-Renaissance building which survived two world wars but was torched ‌by a masked mob during the worst unrest to convulse France in years. "We cannot maintain public services at the levels that we want them to be and keep retiring at this age." The Econ World podcast examines the real reason France is in fiscal trouble. Listen now.  In other news Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that the US had paused some intelligence sharing with Ukraine, contradicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who said Washington had briefly ‌done just that. Israeli police said they had arrested 10 suspects as part of an investigation into violent incidents in the occupied West Bank over the weekend, including separate attacks on a photojournalist and European diplomats. Israel's Palestinian leaders are urging people in the minority Arab community to vote in big numbers in next week's election as they seek to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and topple the most right-wing government in the country's history. Pope Leo pledged to slowly resume his usual activities as the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics as he ‌greeted crowds in St. Peter's Square during his first public event since undergoing surgery for lung cancer five days ago. Business & Markets   A Kashmiri roadside vendor sells fruits in a market area in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali Global food inflation is poised to accelerate in the coming months and persist well ‌into 2027, as war-related shipping disruptions and El Nino-driven drought squeeze cereal supplies, putting additional pressure on vulnerable consumers. Indonesian capital markets were battered on Monday, with stocks hit by a record two-day rout as an expulsion warning from MSCI scared off investors, heaping pressure on Jakarta to respond to the index provider's long-standing concerns. AI lab Anthropic, the developer of Claude, said it ‌will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund so it has increased flexibility and scale to make donations for the "public good." China's economic growth bounced off three-year lows in the third quarter, as roaring exports offset consumers' tight grip on their wallets, though analysts warn the growing reliance on external drivers is deepening structural imbalances. Volkswagen plans to freeze salaries for its 660,000 staff worldwide until 2030, the group's works council said. The absence of pay rises could mean a loss of income of around ⁠10% for those affected, due to inflation. Cherry or tabasco? Perfumers test weight-loss drug users' appetite for food-inspired scents   A staff member demonstrates the testing process in the sensory area at Coty's fragrance maker. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse From cherry and banoffee pie to tabasco and sesame, the list of food aromas popping up in luxury fragrances keeps growing. Now some perfume makers are starting to ask if weight-loss drugs might be reshaping what ‌consumers want in a scent. This is the first story in a five-part Reuters series on how weight-loss drugs are changing the way people shop and eat, and how companies are responding to the trend. Read more And Finally... American television producer Chuck Lorre poses for a portrait at Warner Bros. Studios. REUTERS/Daniel Cole Chuck Lorre, the television writer and producer behind “The Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men”, joins Reuters Culture Current to reflect on his career, the key to great comedy, and why he remains optimistic about television. 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. 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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