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Here are the top stories and upcoming coverage plans for Reuters text service as of 10 a.m. GMT/6 a.m. ET. For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect or on Media Express. TOP STORIES GLOBAL USA-TRUMP-TARIFFS-CHINA US, China seek to avoid trade war escalation, salvage Trump-Xi meeting in Malaysia talks Top economic officials from the U.S. and China kickstarted talks in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to avert an escalation of their trade war and ensure that a meeting happens next week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. ASEAN-SUMMIT Thai PM to sign Cambodia ceasefire deal, skips summits over royal death Thailand's prime minister will travel to Malaysia to sign a ceasefire deal with Cambodia that U.S. President Donald Trump is set to witness after he pulled out of the ASEAN Summit due to the death of the kingdom's Queen Mother Sirikit on Saturday. USA-VENEZUELA-MILIARY-CARRIER US to escalate military presence in South America with aircraft carrier group President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by announcing the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America — a show of force far beyond any past counter-narcotics effort and Washington’s most assertive move in the region yet. TAIWAN-LGBT-PRIDE Tens of thousands brave rain at east Asia's largest Pride march in Taiwan Almost 150,000 people braved blustery rain in a boisterous and colourful celebration of LGBTQ+ equality in Taiwan on Saturday at east Asia's largest Pride march, thronging the streets of the capital city Taipei. THAILAND-SIRIKIT Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, influential style icon, dies at 93​ Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household Bureau said on Saturday. U.S. USA-TRUMP-NATIONAL-GUARD-PORTLAND Trump’s troop deployments to Portland and D.C. tested in court Federal judges in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. held hearings on Friday in legal battles over the deployment of National Guard troops to the U.S. cities, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand his rare use of the U.S. military for domestic purposes. USA-TRUMP-BALLROOM The bulldozer and the ballroom: Trump makes his mark on the White House When President Donald Trump met with donors for his new ballroom at the White House earlier this month, he relayed a story that thrilled his real estate mogul heart. "I said, 'How long will it take me?' 'Sir, you can start tonight, you have no approvals,'" Trump said on October 15, describing a conversation he'd had about the project. "I said, 'You gotta be kidding.' They said, 'Sir, this is the White House, you're the president of the United States, you can do anything you want.'" Days later, demolition crews bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, reducing decades of history at one of the country's most famous landmarks to a pile of rubble and drawing outrage from historians, preservationists, Democrats and the public. USA-ELECTION-NEW-YORK-JEFFRIES Jeffries ends the suspense, endorses Mamdani in NY mayor's race U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, a top elected Democrat in the U.S. Congress, on Friday endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the race for mayor of New York City, four months after the New York State assemblyman won the Democratic Party nomination. BUSINESS CHRYSLER-INVESTIGATION US opens probe into more than 232,000 Chrysler vehicles over instrument panel issue The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Saturday said it has opened a probe into about 232,209 Chrysler 2020 model year Jeep Gladiator and Wrangler vehicles sold in the U.S. over concerns that a malfunction of the instrument panel cluster (IPC) could result in loss of vehicle information. USA-TRUMP-COPPER Trump reverses Biden-era rules on copper smelters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday reversed a Biden-era air pollution rule that had imposed stricter limits on emissions from copper smelters. LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC-JON-BON-JOVI Jon Bon Jovi 'grateful and humble' to tour again after vocal cord surgery U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi says he is "grateful and humble" to be able to return to the stage again following vocal cord surgery as the band that carries his name announced a comeback tour this week. NETFLIX-GAME-STUDIO Netflix shuts down game studio behind 'Squid Game: Unleashed' Netflix has shut down the studio behind its mobile game "Squid Game: Unleashed", amid a shift in strategy for its video gaming unit. SPORTS BASEBALL-MLB-TOR-LAD Blue Jays stun Ohtani, Dodgers in World Series opener The Toronto Blue Jays were made to wait longer than most teams to return to the World Series but made up for lost time with an 11-4 rout of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday in Game One of the best-of-seven championship. TENNIS-TOKYO Bencic battles past Kenin to set up Noskova final in Tokyo Belinda Bencic reached her second Pan Pacific Open final a decade after her first with a hard-fought 7-6(5) 3-6 6-2 win over American Sofia Kenin on Saturday, booking a title clash with Linda Noskova, who advanced via a walkover. SOCCER-ENGLAND-LEE-WHU West Ham’s woes continue with worst start in over 50 years West Ham United’s horrific run of results in the Premier League this season continued with a 2-1 defeat at Leeds United on Friday, ensuring their worst start in over half a century. UPCOMING BUSINESS / ECONOMICS USA-TRUMP/IOWA (PIX) The US corn crop could be the biggest ever. That’s terrible news for America’s farmers. Kyle Wendland led a team of crop scouts through the sweltering Corn Belt, crisscrossing country roads from Ohio to Minnesota, on a mission to gauge the size of what could be the biggest corn crop in U.S. history. His hope, along with thousands of farmers facing a trade war and a third straight year of negative returns, was to find evidence that would at least temporarily buoy the price of corn. Measuring ears of corn by hand may seem a relic in an age of satellites and artificial intelligence. But this year with uncertainty rising over U.S. government data, the annual survey by the Pro Farmer Crop Tour felt more like a rural quest for signs that Washington was wrong — that disease or something unseen would result in a lower forecast. 25 Oct 07:00 ET / 11:00 GMT BOEING-STRIKE/ Boeing strikers vote on proposed contract Boeing Defense union workers on strike will vote on the company's latest contract proposal on Sunday, Oct. 26. The roughly 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have been on strike for 12 weeks in the St. Louis-area, where they produce fighter jets, munitions and other defense aircraft. Boeing's latest offer is a slightly-tweaked version of the company's previous proposal, which IAM District 837 members rejected in September. Since before the strike began, company officials have said Boeing will not increase the economic value of its offers. The IAM filed an unfair labor practice charge with federal regulators against Boeing for allegedly negotiating in bad faith. Boeing officials insist that they are mitigating the effects of the strike by using non-union employees and hiring replacement workers. 26 Oct SPORTS TENNIS-BASEL/ (PIX) (TV) Tennis – ATP 500 – Swiss Indoors Basel The semi-finals of the Swiss Indoors Basel – an ATP 500 tournament. 25 Oct 09:00 ET / 13:00 GMT SPORTS-EQUINOX/ Sports fans celebrate the 'Sports Equinox' with all four major North American leagues in action On October 27, the Sports Equinox turns one ordinary Monday into a 24-hour carnival where North America tracks four scoreboards at once – NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL – while a betting boom hums beneath every refresh. 26 Oct POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ASEAN-SUMMIT/ (PIX) (TV) First day of…

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