Israel mounts major West Bank operation

Plus, WFP launches probe into its Sudan operations.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Edson Caldas Israeli forces raid areas of the occupied West Bank in a major operation involving helicopters and drones, Kamala Harris kicks off a bus tour in Georgia, and investors await Nvidia's earnings report. But first, we have an exclusive report on a probe into the WFP's Sudan operations. Today's Top News   Sudan is suffering one of the world's most severe food shortages in years. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation's dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe. At least nine people were killed in a major Israeli offensive in Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health authorities said. Clashes in the West Bank have risen sharply since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the war with Russia would eventually end in dialogue, but that Kyiv had to be in a strong position and that he would present a plan to US President Joe Biden and his two potential successors. Follow the latest. Italian prosecutors are investigating two more crew members from tech tycoon Mike Lynch's yacht, in connection with the vessel's sinking over a week ago. The captain of the yacht declined to respond to prosecutors during questioning. US election Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will campaign together in Georgia, a state that Democrats narrowly won in 2020 and could play a decisive role in this year's election. More than 200 venture capitalists are supporting Harris' bid for the White House. Correspondent Jeffrey Dastin joins the Reuters World News podcast with insights on what they are hoping for from the next administration.  Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment accusing him of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution. Business & Markets   Traders in the US equity options market are expecting Nvidia's upcoming earnings report to spark a more than $300 billion swing in the shares of the world's most dominant AI chipmaker. Global stocks held near record highs ahead of the release of the report. US tech companies are pursuing energy assets held by bitcoin miners as they race to secure a shrinking supply of electricity for their rapidly expanding AI and cloud computing data centers. Those data centers are driving the fastest US power demand growth since the start of the millennium. Apple is tying up with India's Bharti Airtel to offer the telecom firm's premium customers its music and video streaming services for free, giving the tech giant access to thousands of consumers in the world's most populous nation. US imports of used cooking oil from China are set to hit a record in the months ahead, even as regulatory uncertainty casts doubts over longer-term prospects of a trade that boomed last year, according to market participants. SAS said it has exited US Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, with the Scandinavian airline's CEO hailing a "new era". In other aviation news, the US workplace safety agency is opening a probe after two workers were killed at a Delta maintenance facility. Toymaker Lego is on track to replace the fossil fuels used in making its signature colorful bricks with more expensive renewable and recycled plastic by 2032. The company's sales outpaced the overall toy market in the first half of the year. The Wider Image   A Formosan black bear plays inside an enclosure at the government-run bear shelter Wushikeng Research Center in Taichung, Taiwan. REUTERS/Ann Wang Taiwanese hunters and conservationists are teaming up to protect Formosan black bears, with only a few hundred estimated still in the wild, by designing new traps which will not amputate limbs if they are accidentally caught in a snare. See our photo essay And Finally... Actor Sveva Alviti, who will host the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, and director Alberto Barbera. REUTERS/Yara Nardi Stars galore will light up this year's Venice Film Festival, which opens today, bringing sex, song and soul-searching to the Lido, making up for a low wattage 2023 edition when a strike kept most A-listers away. Read more Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. 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