Poll shows Harris holds narrow lead over Trump

Plus, Hezbollah says it launches volley of rockets into Israel.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Poll shows Harris holds a 46%-43% lead over Trump amid voter gloom, Hezbollah says it launches a volley of rockets into Israel, Georgia's shark-owning billionaire warns voters. Plus, meet the drone that serves as a 'flying shopping cart'. Today's Top News   A Lebanese Middle East Airlines plane takes off from Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport as smoke billows. October 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at two bases near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and one west of Haifa just hours before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to make another push for an elusive ceasefire. Democratic US Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 46% to 43% lead over Republican former President Donald Trump, with a glum electorate saying the country is on the wrong track, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The ballots of Americans overseas may be crucial in the tight races of battleground states back home. The Democratic National Committee estimates that 1.6 million US voters abroad are eligible to vote in one of the seven so-called swing states that will likely determine the outcome of the election. Elon Musk handed out two $1 million checks to randomly picked people who signed his online petition backing US constitutional rights to freedom of speech and bear arms. Jack Queen joins the Reuters World News podcast to discuss divisions among legal experts over whether the billionaire could be testing prohibitions on paying people to register to vote.  US officials have told their Indian counterparts they want a speedy result and more accountability after their investigation into Indian involvement in a foiled murder plot against a Sikh activist in the United States. Russia wants the BRICS summit to showcase the rising clout of the non-Western world, but Moscow's partners from China, India, Brazil and the Arab world are urging President Vladimir Putin to find a way to end the war in Ukraine. More than 40 climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in an Atlantic Ocean current, which could trigger abrupt shifts in weather patterns and damage ecosystems. Business & Markets   Britain's commercial property market is returning to life after its post-pandemic freeze, albeit largely at much lower prices. Some big-ticket office properties now on sale will show just where the market is likely to bottom out and how briskly UK deal volumes will recover - especially in the hard-hit office market.  British public borrowing in the first six months of the tax year came in higher than official forecasts, data showed, underscoring the challenge facing finance minister Rachel Reeves in her first budget next week. HSBC merged some operations and split its geographic footprint into East and West in a sweeping restructuring under new CEO Georges Elhedery that also included the appointment of the bank's first female finance chief. The top US watchdog agency for consumer financial protection unveiled long-awaited rules intended to drive a shift toward open banking and spur competition, allowing consumers to control and share their own data when shopping for services. Three years after Meta shut down facial recognition software on Facebook amid a groundswell of privacy and regulator pushback, the social media giant said it is testing the service again as part of a crackdown on "celeb bait" scams. Consumers are shunning booze, forcing beermakers to adapt. In this episode of Breakingviews' Big View podcast Louise Fitzpatrick, an executive at the Dutch brewer Heineken, explains the opportunities and challenges of selling suds without alcohol. Georgia's shark-owning billionaire tells voters: Don't risk war with Russia   Bidzina Ivanishvili, former prime minister and founder of the Georgian Dream party, Tbilisi. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/File Photo Georgia's savior. Russia's stooge. Philanthropist. Oligarch. Bidzina Ivanishvili has been called all these things, and more. The billionaire, Georgia's richest person and the founder of its ruling party, is seldom seen in public and, of late, almost exclusively behind bulletproof glass. Yet his presence looms large over this small European country caught been Russia and the West and an election that could shape its destiny. He has cast Saturday's election as an existential fight to prevent a "Global War Party" in the West pushing Georgia into a ruinous conflict with former overlord Russia, like he says it did with Ukraine. Read more And Finally... Park Hyun-geun demonstrates the aerial transportation platform 'Palletrone' on stairs at Seoul Tech, South Korea, October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon South Korean researchers have developed a transport drone flying on multiple flexible rotors that self-correct to stay level in flight and can be used as a "flying shopping cart" to carry goods over uneven terrain such as stairs. 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. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? 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