Highlights

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up mode and move into production amid signals that his firm's heavy rocket may slip behind schedule.

A threat to impose sanctions on Russian sovereign debt transactions is one of the biggest financial weapons that the U.S. can deploy against the Kremlin, but Moscow’s slide down the investment league table in recent years means the move will not pack the punch it once would have.

The U.S. government told a federal court judge that volunteers and non-profit groups, rather than government officials, should take the lead in locating more than 400 immigrant parents who were separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Apple became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company yesterday, crowning a decade-long rise that transformed it from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications. Reuters Graphics explored the major milestone in a decade of stock gains fueled by its ubiquitous iPhone.

Donna Fenn doesn't claim to be a stock-picking wizard - she just got lucky with a tip in 1985 on a then-little known company called Apple. @onehitGit reports: https://reut.tv/2MdAi88

5:48PM - August 3, 2018

World

President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for Zimbabwe to unite behind him after he was declared winner of national elections, but the opposition leader questioned the outcome and demanded “proper and verified” results be released.

The violence-marred triumph of the ruling ZANU-PF has dashed any optimism that this week's election would unambiguously mark the end of Zimbabwe's long, painful slide towards totalitarianism and economic implosion under Robert Mugabe, writes South African columnist William Saunderson-Meyer.

Less than two months after a landmark U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew back to the city state and said North Korea’s continued work on weapons programs was inconsistent with its leader’s commitment to denuclearize.

Meanwhile, Pompeo and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu agreed to try to resolve a series of disputes, following Washington’s imposition of sanctions on two Turkish ministers over the case of Andrew Brunson, a U.S. pastor on trial in Turkey.

Two Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. See our full coverage: https://reut.rs/2yPnwus

5:59 AM - August 3, 2018