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Today, two members of the National Guard are shot in an apparent targeted ambush in Washington, D.C.

hundreds are missing as a huge fire burns out of control in Hong Kong.

We look at the more expensive elements of your dinner.

This is Reuters World News bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes.

Seven days a week, First responders surround two National Guard members lying on the sidewalk.

Two National Guard soldiers hug after an attack authorities are calling a targeted ambush.

Michael Ryan was heading out for lunch at the time.

As soon as I got 17I street, we heard like rapid gunshots.

He says the area was quickly swarmed by police officers and other National Guard members.

They had a person pinned on the ground yelling at him to stay down.

President Donald Trump, who's in Florida, is calling the shooter an animal who will pay.

A very steep voices Correspondent Leah Douglas was at the scene.

So when I arrived at the area where the shooting took place, Farragut Square, which is the park that the shooting was near, was already taped off with yellow crime scene tape.

And there were dozens of fire trucks, police vehicles of all kinds, and

a helicopter circling and several National Guard members standing on a corner kind of watching the situation unfolding.

The suspect, who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire before he was arrested, has been identified by the Department of Homeland Security as Rahmounala Lakhanwal, an afghan national.

citizenship and Immigration Services Agency says it's halted processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals indefinitely.

Leah says no motive has been given so far, but

that officials say the suspect was a lone gunman.

So we heard from officials and what they described was that the suspect had come around a corner at an intersection which is in a part of D.C.

It's just two blocks from the White House complex.

The park that it took place near is like a popular lunch destination.

Lots of cafes, lots of pedestrians, things like that.

And so this person, the suspect came around the corner and, quote, ambushed them.

According to someone from the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. u.S.

Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will beef up national guard numbers in D.C.

A huge apartment tower block is on fire in Hong Kong, with firefighters still trying to reach residents potentially trapped on the upper floors of the high rise buildings.

The blaze in the Wong Phuk Court housing complex in Taipo has been burning for more than 24 hours.

More than 40 people are dead and hundreds are still missing.

Hong Kong police say the fire may have spread due to unsafe materials, including the bamboo scaffolding and mesh surrounding the building.

Police Superintendent Eileen Chong pointing the finger at the construction company carrying out maintenance work.

Three people from that company have already been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

Reporter Farah Master in Hong Kong is covering the story.

It's a complex of eight buildings and they're all high rises with like 31 floors.

So they're really tall buildings and they're all stacked very close to each other.

So what had happened was one caught on fire and then it spread very quickly to the others.

There are around 2,000 apartment units within these eight residential high rise blocks.

And there are around 4,600 people living here in these blocks.

And the fire authorities are trying hard to get to the higher floors of these residential buildings, and

There are many, many of these cases where people are trying to find their loved ones that are still stuck in or that are missing.

We've had really harrowing cases of one man who was outside and his wife was trapped in.

He's 70 years old and yeah, he just broke down.

And there's another case of a lady, she's looking for her daughter.

Her daughter just graduated from university here and she hasn't had contact with her daughter since yesterday afternoon when she was inside the block.

Farah says there are concerns that the fire could trigger discontent in the city where housing is already an issue.

I think it's definitely going to be a really hot button issue.

Housing has always been a really tough issue in Hong Kong.

And these people, you know, they paid so much money to get an apartment in this complex.

So there'll be a lot of anger as to how could this happen in Hong Kong, which is so developed.

You might be settling down today to a Thanksgiving meal.

And for one thing, you might be thankful that prices were a bit cheaper than last year.

According to the American Farm Bureau, the average price per person of what it calls the Thanksgiving staples, everything from turkey and sweet potatoes to peas, stuffing and pumpkin pie, will cost around $5.50 a person.

But as our Fed reporter Howard Schneider has been reporting, some shoppers are still feeling the strain.

They found that the overall price did drop a little bit this year.

Now it's still higher than it was in 2019, before the pandemic, by about 13%.

There's a little bit of sticker shock under the hood when it comes to the sides because the wholesale price of Turkey is.

But the retailers, particularly at a time when stores are very sensitive about market share, being very aggressive about discounting.

So some stores, we've found, are even giving away turkeys for free.

If you spend a certain amount of money, things like sweet potatoes costing a lot more than they did last year, a lot of the other sides are up as well.

Russia says the leak of a recording of a call between top advisers to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was an unacceptable attempt to undermine peace negotiations and amounts to hybrid warfare.

Bloomberg News published the transcript of an Oct. 14 telephone call in which Trump envoy Steve Witkoff advised Putin's foreign policy aide Yuri Yushakov on how to pitch a Ukraine peace plan to Trump.

Russia says it won't make major concessions on a peace plan for Ukraine.

Witkoff is due in Moscow next week for talks with Russian leaders.

A Georgia prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against President Trump for trying to overTurn the state's 2020 election results, ending what was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats the president faced.

The case was brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis in 2023, but

collapsed after she was removed over ethics complaints.

It's the latest in a string of criminal prosecutions against Trump that have fallen apart since his return to the White House.

Now, you might not want to hear about belts tightening today of all days, but

in the UK they don't have Thanksgiving and instead have a government keen to balance the books.

British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves has announced a big tax raising budget aimed at giving her more room for deficit reduction targets.

And I do recognise that I was asking ordinary people to pay a little bit more, but

I've managed to keep that contribution as low as I possibly can.

As well as a so called mansion tax on properties above £2 million, there were higher taxes for Britons on everything from milkshakes to electric vehicles.

Reeves also announced some measures to lower the cost of living, cutting energy bills and removing a cap that had prevented low income families from receiving further benefits when they have more than two children.

Pope Leo is heading to the Muslim majority nation of Turkey today and his first papal trip abroad.

On Leo's agenda is a meeting with President Recep Tayyip.

Erdogan and in a departure from normal practice, Leo is expected to speak English in his speeches in Turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate.

As you digest your turkey, you might already be browsing for the more popular deals for Black Friday, so for today's recommended read, we dive into what shoppers are looking for in the shopping season, which typically accounts for a third of American retailers yearly profits.

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