Brad Lander, a US Democratic Party candidate for Congress, was detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, along with other Americans and Israelis harvesting olives alongside Palestinian farmers, rights groups said reut.rs/3VYBg0Q

EXCLUSIVE: Senior UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh enters race for UN chief reut.rs/4jvkXlS reut.rs/4jvkXlS

President Trump said his administration has made a ‘very big dent’ in scams by foreign criminal networks that lure Americans into fraudulent investments, focusing on an anti-fraud message ahead of November's midterm elections reut.rs/3UADUJM

North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers on standby along the entire border within days and has put unspecified new countermeasures on alert, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea's leader, said reut.rs/4BjAvPX

Tesla is aiming to start selling its Cybercab robotaxis to the public by the end of this year, its engineering chief said, even as the US auto safety agency probes the vehicles that come without manual controls which federal regulations typically require reut.rs/4sgFuNg

A class-action lawsuit has been filed in an Australian court against Meta’s Facebook and Instagram that alleges the social media platforms exposed children to harmful content and kept them addicted through algorithms reut.rs/4skkwNx

🔊   Government websites across Europe went offline after critical security flaws were discovered. The vulnerabilities affected everything from WordPress sites to government portals. Hear more on the Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4yz29Gc

Exclusive: Elon Musk's public endorsement this week of a potential $3.5 trillion merger between SpaceX and Tesla has rattled some insiders involved in the discussions, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by several weeks reut.rs/4ihAgfN

Nasdaq leads Wall Street gains as SpaceX, Super Micro boost AI sentiment reut.rs/3VUyvO8 reut.rs/3VUyvO8

Taiwan issued a land warning ahead of the arrival of powerful Typhoon Champi and cancelled more than 100 flights, with the storm expected to brush past the island's northeastern coast and gradually weaken on approach reut.rs/4iakEux

China is emerging as a major supplier of water technology to parched countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, as shrinking natural supplies at home push Beijing to invest heavily in manufactured freshwater, industry experts say reut.rs/3UGnoYH