A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at a border crossing in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him dead. Google is back in a U.S. District court today, facing antitrust charges that the company tried to monopolize the online advertising market. And we take a look at the crucial fight for Black voters in Georgia, ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
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Today, a gunman crossing the border from Jordan to the West Bank kills three Israeli civilians. Google heads back to court to face charges it tried to monopolize the online ad market. And the Harris and Trump campaigns are in a tight fight for the attention of black voters in Georgia. It's Monday, September 9th. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes every weekday. I'm Tara Oaks in Liverpool. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning an attack at a border crossing in the occupied West Bank which killed three Israeli civilians. It's a first attack of its kind along the border with Jordan since October 7th. Edmund Blair is our Middle East editor. The context is that there's been a surge in violence on the West Bank between Israeli forces and militants and indeed others have been caught up in the violence. It is a crucial crossing for commercial goods and for people, Palestinians leaving the West Bank and traveling abroad. It seems a gunman, the Jordanian say he seems to be acting alone, had somehow smuggled a gun across the border and he opened fire. So the investigation continues in Jordan. Hamas have praised it, but have not claimed responsibility. Rather than the investigation, what's the reaction being like generally in Jordan to this? Jordan is facing a bit of a balancing act. For one, it has been vocal in its cause for an end to the Gaza war. There are plenty of people with power in your heritage and therefore this makes any tension between Israel and Jordan a very sensitive issue for the government. But in addition, it's sensitive because Jordan is a very close ally of the United States. So it does have to face this balancing act at anything, but given where Jordan is and how it has responded in the past, it doesn't look like this will escalate further, at least at this stage. Staying in the Middle East, at least 14 people were killed in Masya, Syria on Sunday night after multiple Israeli strikes. That's according to Syria's state news agency. Two regional intelligence sources said a military research centre for chemical arms production had been hit several times. It's believed to house a team of Iranian military experts involved in weapons production. Russia says its forces have taken control of a town in eastern Ukraine as it advances on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. The Russian defense ministry has said its forces have taken the town of Novotrodevka. It's 7 miles from Pokrovsk, which is an important rail and road hub for Ukrainian forces in the area. An audio message from Venezuela's opposition leader released when he landed in Madrid on Sunday morning. Fernando Gonzales is seeking asylum in Spain after leaving Venezuela amid a political crisis over July's disputed election against Nicolas Maduro. His exit comes a week after Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant for him. An influential evangelist preacher from the Philippines has been arrested according to authorities. Apollo Qibaloy is accused of sex trafficking and child and sexual abuse. He is denied any wrongdoing. He is also on the FBI's most wanted list in the U.S. The mother of the teenager charged with shooting and killing four people at a Georgia high school last week called the school that morning to warn of "an extreme emergency". That's according to reporting by The Washington Post. Marci Gray, mother of 14-year-old Colt Gray, said she told the high school counsellor to find her son immediately. Indonesia's most powerful storm this year, Taifun Yagi, has killed at least 35 in Northern Vietnam and caused widespread damage. More floods and landslides are still expected. Anyanic sinner has won the U.S. Open, defeating American Taylor Fritz in the final on Sunday. Sinner is the first Italian man to win the tournament. This participation was controversial after it was revealed that he tested positive twice for an anabolic agent in March. Boeing has reached a tentative deal with workers to avoid a potentially crippling strike. Common cremens has the detail. So what's on the table is a 25% pay increase over four years and a commitment to build Boeing's next plane in the Seattle area. Union members have to vote on the offer on Thursday because the current contract expires at midnight on that day. If that vote goes through, that would be a big win for Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Orteberg. He's under pressure to improve labour relations and also quality of the plane maker after a door plug on an airmax blew off in mid-air back in January. But sticking with this month and now that we're deep in September, a little plug for the latest episode of my podcast, Reuters Econ World, we're looking at why September could be such a dud month for U.S. stocks. You can catch it on Reuters.com, the app, or whatever you listen to your podcast. Now, to an incredibly tight race in the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are effectively tied a new poll conducted by the New York Times and Sienna College shows. Trump leads Harris 48 to 47%. That makes the race in battleground states like Georgia, where both campaigns are targeting black voters, all the more vital. Tim Reed has recently returned from a reporting trip where he spoke to dozens of campaign workers, voters and volunteers. Tim, why are both candidates digging in with such an urgent pitch aimed at Georgia's black voters? Georgia is an incredibly important state for both Harris and Trump. If Trump loses Georgia, it really narrows his path to winning the White House. And before Harris became the Democratic nominee, there was polling that showed that Joe Biden was only getting 65% of black voters in Georgia, which would have been a disaster for him because Democrats generally get about 90% of the black vote nationally and a similar total in Georgia. More recent polls have showed that Kamala Harris is now getting 85% of black votes in Georgia, and that might be rising. What kind of margin do they need? How many votes are we talking about here? The Trump campaign and Donald Trump himself has said that Georgia is a must-win state for him, and they had taken it for granted. Now, they are opening new offices. They are hiring volunteers, and they are making a full-on effort to get into black neighborhoods across the state to register and turn out black voters because this is a state that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in by less than 12,000 votes in 2020. So 10 votes here, 100 votes there can make all the difference in Georgia. That means there's a lot at stake in Tuesday's presidential debate. For everything you need to know about it, have a listen to our special weekend edition. You can find a link in today's pod description. Google is back in the US District Court today, facing antitrust allegations that the company tried to monopolize the online advertising market. This trial comes after the search giant was found guilty of a separate antitrust violation in early August for dominating online search. Jody Godoy is in Virginia for the trial. According to the Department of Justice and the state attorneys general who are bringing this case, Google dominates the market for advertising technology used to show ads on websites, something like up to 90% of the market. So a lot of what prosecutors are going to try to do at this trial is to show how Google employees and executives thought about these products. In court documents, they've pointed to statements where Google employees have said we need to have an all or nothing strategy or have said things like owning both publisher tools and advertiser tools is like Goldman Sachs owning the New York Stock Exchange. That could be powerful evidence of intent to monopolize a market. And so how does Google respond to this? Google says the prosecutor's view of the online advertising world is completely out of date. They say that when you factor in apps and you factor in social media and you factor in connected TV, Google has at best about a 30% market share in some of these markets that the DOJ has identified and that by failing to include these changes, prosecutors are really just going after an outdated market. For today's recommended read, we take a look at Sunday's protests, but thousands of Indians in the diaspora demonstrated across 25 countries demanding justice after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital in August. 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