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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, October 6th, and this is your FT News briefing.

Hamas and Israel head to another round of negotiations,

and Japan is bracing for a new and boundary-breaking Prime Minister.

Plus, can small nuclear reactors help power the AI energy boom?

They offer to solve a problem for data centers, which is that they need reliable, clean

energy at an affordable price.

I'm Victoria Craig, and here's the news you need to start your day.

All eyes are trained on Cairo today, where indirect talks between Israel and Hamas are set to take place.

The two sides, with the help of Arab and American negotiators, will get down to brass tax on President Donald Trump's 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza. Hamas said it's willing to release Israeli hostages and hand over Gaza's governance to a Palestinian committee, but it's not clear

whether the militant group will accept disarmament, a key pillar of the plan. Speaking on NBC's

Meet the Press, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said addressing those gaps is key to long-term peace. All that work, that's going to be hard, but that's critical because without that, you're not going to have lasting peace. You may get the hostages back. You may get a cessation of hostilities, but in the long term, it's going to happen all over again. Pressure for a deal is mounting after Trump said he will, quote, not tolerate delay.

Speaking to reporter Sunday, the president said negotiations will probably take a couple of days.

Traders are bracing for what they say could be a volatile week in Japanese financial markets.

That says, Sane Takei Takiichi, a hardline nationalist, takes the reins of Japan's ruling liberal Democratic Party and is set to become the country's first female prime minister.

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