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TOP STORIES

GLOBAL

UKRAINE-CRISIS/

Ukraine, West denounce Russian referendum plans for occupied regions

KYIV, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions on Tuesday set out plans for referendums on joining Russia, a challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the war and sparked condemnation from Ukraine and its allies.

UN-ASSEMBLY/BIDEN

Russia's Ukraine invasion violates U.N.'s 1945 charter, Biden to say

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will try to rally the world against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, saying Moscow's war against its neighbor violates the tenets of the U.N. charter that established the post-World War Two body.

U.S.

USA-IMMIGRATION/DELAWARE

Delaware braces for migrant flight in U.S. political standoff

GEORGETOWN, Del., Sept 20 (Reuters) - Local government officials, advocates and reporters swarmed a small coastal airport near President Joe Biden's vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Tuesday in anticipation of a possible flight carrying migrants from Texas.

USA-TRUMP/DOCUMENTS

Special master asks Trump's lawyers if he declassified records in FBI search

NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. judge appointed to review documents seized last month by the FBI from Donald Trump's Florida home raised doubts on Tuesday about the former president's claim that he should not yet review whether the records were classified or not.

BUSINESS

FORD MOTOR-STOCKS/

Ford stock has biggest daily drop since 2011 after inflation warning

Ford Motor Co's stock tumbled over 12% on Tuesday in its deepest one-day decline in over a decade after the automaker said inflation-related costs would be $1 billion more than expected in the current quarter and that parts shortages had delayed deliveries.

ECB-POLICY/LAGARDE

ECB's Lagarde raises prospect of rate hikes beyond neutral level

FRANKFURT, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank may need to raise interest rates to a level that restricts economic growth in order to cool demand and combat unacceptably high inflation, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.

ENTERTAINMENT

USA-BIDEN/ELTON JOHN

Elton John set to perform at the White House on Friday

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will host British rocker Elton John for a performance on Friday at the White House, according to a press release.

AWARDS-GOLDEN GLOBES/

Golden Globes broadcast to return to NBC in 2023

LOS ANGELES, Sept 20 (Reuters) - NBC will resume its live broadcast of the Golden Globe awards for film and television in January 2023, the network said on Tuesday, citing organizers' steps to address ethics and a lack of diversity among voters.

SPORTS

MOTOR-F1-CALENDAR/

New deal for Monaco as F1 sets record 24-race calendar

LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Formula One will have a record 24 races next season with Las Vegas making its floodlit debut in November and Monaco signing a new deal to secure its place on the calendar until at least 2025.

SOCCER-SPAIN-ATM-MAD/RACISM

Atletico condemn hate speech after Vinicius Jr racially abused

MADRID, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Atletico Madrid have condemned hate speech after their fans were filmed racially abusing Real Madrid's Brazilian forward Vinicius Jr outside their Metropolitano Stadium ahead of Sunday's match.

UPCOMING

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

NIGERIA-STRIKE/

Nigeria court to rule on strike by public university lecturers

A Nigerian court will decide whether striking lecturers from public universities should return to work after the government challenged their seven-month industrial action that has disrupted classes. Hundreds of students protested against the strike this week by blocking the main airport road in the commercial capital Lagos.

Sep 21

PARIS-SPACE CONFERENCE/

Major space conference held in Paris

The International Astronautical Congress, a major space exploration conference, will be held in Paris, with Reuters covering speakers.

Sep 21

ADB-ECONOMY/ (TV)

ADB to release Asian Development Outlook 2022 Update

The ADB report provides updated growth and inflation forecasts for economies in Asia and the Pacific for 2022 and 2023.

Sep 21

USA-MARKETS/CONSUMER-STOCKS

Summer rally in consumer stocks teeters with Fed, inflation in focus

Expectations of more Federal Reserve tightening and economic worries are weighing on a sizzling rebound in consumer discretionary stocks, though some investors continue to believe the sector will outperform other areas of the market if growth begins to wobble in coming months.

Sep 21

INDIA-CONFERENCE/

India finance, trade, aviation ministers to speak at event attended by top CEOs

Indian finance, trade and aviation ministers and their counterparts from Germany, Tajikistan and New Zealand will speak at various thematic plenaries planned during a two-days event organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Other speakers include executives from Unilever, Hindustan Lever, Mahindra and Mahindra, Bharti Enterprises, Samsung Electronics, Maruti Suzuki and India,

Sep 21

USA-CONGRESS/BANKS-CEOS (TV)

Chief executives from the country's largest banks to testify before Congress Sept. 21/22

Chief executives from the country's largest banks to testify before Congress -- starting with the House on Sept. 21 and the Senate on Sept. 22

21 Sep 04:00 ET / 04:00 GMT

FINTECH-CRYPTO/LENDING (PIX)

INSIGHT-What crisis? High-stakes crypto lending looks here to stay

Behind the meltdown in the crypto market was an opaque network of unsecured loans between crypto companies which left the industry highly exposed heading into the price crash earlier this year, according to a Reuters analysis of bankruptcy court and regulatory filings, and interviews with 20 industry insiders.

Sep 21 05:00 ET / 05:00 GMT

USA-FED/ (PIX)

Fed set for big rate hike as waters get choppy for world's central banks

The Federal Reserve is expected on Wednesday to lift interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point for a third straight time and signal how much further and how fast borrowing costs may need to rise to tame a potentially corrosive outbreak of inflation.

21 Sep 05:00 ET / 05:00 GMT

USA-ECONOMY/MANUFACTURING

Printing the future: New factory tech reshapes the U.S. industrial economy

A 3D printing startup outside Boston that makes high-tech metal parts for the military and industry offers a glimpse of how the Biden administration would like to reshape the U.S. industrial economy.

21 Sep 06:00 ET / 06:00 GMT

USA-FED/PROJECTIONS

Fed forecasts may show fraying faith in soft landing

How much faith Federal Reserve officials still have in prospects for a "soft landing" as they take aggressive action to quash the highest inflation in 40 years will be revealed on Wednesday when the central bank releases fresh policymaker forecasts.

21 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-OIL/SPR-BUYERS (PIX) (GRAPHIC)

Valero, Marathon top beneficiaries of U.S. emergency oil releases

Oil refiners Valero Energy Corp and Marathon Petroleum Corp are the biggest beneficiaries of releases from government's oil reserves, taking nearly half the crude offered, a Reuters analysis of Department of Energy data showed.

21 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-ECONOMY/RENTS (PIX)

Rents are rising at their fastest pace in several years, leaving behind young U.S. workers

The cost of renting a home in the United States is surging and young workers have felt the sharpest pain, many of them taking on additional jobs or roommates to afford housing costs.

21 Sep 11:00 ET / 11:00 GMT

ARTS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT

FASHION-MILAN/ (PIX) (TV)

Milan Fashion Week (Spring/Summer 2023)

Designers present their Spring/Summer creations during the Milan Fashion Week from 20th-26th September 2022.

Sep 21

BRITAIN-ROYALS/QUEEN-COINS (PIX)

Collectors clamor for rare Queen Elizabeth coins and notes to mark history

The death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth has collectors scrambling to secure rare coins and bills to complete their collections, even as her likeness is set to remain in circulation for years to come on many of the dozens of currencies she graces.

21 Sep 00:00 ET / 00:00 GMT

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY

HEALTH-GLOBAL FUND/USA (PIX) (TV)

Biden to host fundraising conference for Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

U.S. President Joe Biden will host the 7th Replenishment Conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

Sep 21

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

SYRIA-KURDS/TURKEY (PIX) (TV)

Kurds fear 'everything will change' if Syria, Turkey reconcile

A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria's Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life.

Sep 21

ECUADOR-PROTESTS/ (PIX) (TV)

Ecuador unions march to demand state pay social security debt

Six major unions in Ecuador will hold mass marches to demand the state pay pending debts to the social security system.

Sep 21

ITALY-ELECTION/YOUTH (PIX)

Youth vote more important than ever in Italy's election

For the first time in Italian history, 18-year-olds will enjoy full voting rights at the Sept. 25 national election, meaning the voice of young people should count more than ever before.

Sep 21

UN-ASSEMBLY/IRAN

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi due to address U.N. General Assembly

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi due to address U.N. General Assembly

Sep 21

TURKEY-POLITICS/IMAMOGLU (PIX)

Turkish court set to rule on case against top Erdogan opponent Imamoglu

A Turkish court is expected to reach a verdict in the trial of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential presidential candidate, who is accused of insulting state officials with comments he made at the time of elections in 2019, with prosecutors seeking the imposition of a political ban on him. The case was adjourned in June.

Sep 21

UN-ASSEMBLY/ (PIX) (TV)

77th annual U.N. General Assembly high-level debate

World leaders to take part in the 77th annual U.N. General Assembly high-level debate.

Sep 21

AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT/UN-WOMEN

At UN, emotional appeals for world leaders to protect Afghan girls' education

After pleading with world leaders at the United Nations to protect the education and rights of women in Afghanistan a year after the Taliban took over, Somaya Faruqi, former captain of the Afghan girls robotics team, broke down in tears backstage.

21 Sep 01:00 ET / 01:00 GMT

AUSTRIA-POLITICS/

Weekly Austrian cabinet meeting

Ministers hold a news conference after Austria's weekly cabinet meeting.

21 Sep 06:00 ET / 06:00 GMT

BRITAIN-MUSEUM/KOREAN WAVE (PIX) (TV)

London's V&A presents "Hallyu! The Korean Wave" exhibition

21 Sep 08:00 ET / 08:00 GMT

USA-ELECTION/ABORTION-BALLOT

FACTBOX-Five states have abortion initiatives on their U.S. midterms ballot

Voters in five states will consider abortion-related ballot measures in November, initiatives that have taken on new urgency after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

21 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

BRAZIL-GUNS/HEIST

With fresh firepower, brutal bank thieves blitz small-town Brazil

Shortly before dawn in late June 2019, a heavily armed crew of bank robbers rammed a truck into the Brazilian city of Uberaba's main Banco do Brasil branch. They left the building several hours later with around $5 million dollars in cash. This story accompanies BRAZIL-GUNS/

21 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

BRAZIL-GUNS/ (PIX) (TV)

Bolsonaro's gun laws arm Brazil's bellicose bank thieves

There is mounting evidence legally acquired high-caliber weapons are cascading onto Brazil's black market, allowing gangs to restock their armories for a generation.

21 Sep 13:00 ET / 13:00 GMT

USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-SPENDING

Trump is MIA in the current surge in Republican ad spending

Fundraising groups tied to the leadership of the Republican Party are ramping up spending on ads to help the party win control of Congress in Nov. 8 elections. But not Donald Trump's Save America group.

21 Sep 14:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

USA-COURT/NOMINEES-ABORTION (PIX)

U.S. Senate panel to consider Biden's judicial nomination of abortion rights lawyer

A U.S. Senate panel is slated to hold a hearing on several of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees, including Julie Rikelman, an abortion rights lawyer nominated to become a federal appeals court judge who represented the Mississippi clinic at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

21 Sep 14:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

SPORTS

SAFRICA-SOLAR/CARS (PIX) (TV)

South Africa's local team joins a solar car race

A South African engineering team, ranging in age from 20 to 70 years old, for the first time took part in the continent's biggest solar car race, where drivers travel on public roads from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Before joining the competition, the residents of Mpumalanga province have been building and driving electric vehicles for a decade to encourage school kids to get involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

21 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT