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LONGMONT, Colorado, (Reuters) – Two Colorado paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide by a jury on Friday for their role in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police roughly detained him, put him in a choke hold, and the medics injected him with a powerful sedative.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Eleven unaccompanied minors were among 303 Indian passengers on a plane grounded in France, a source close to the Paris prosecutor’s office said yesterday, as an investigation into suspected human trafficking continues.

(Reuters) – An Alabama woman with a rare congenital anomaly that results in her having two uteri gave birth to healthy twin girls earlier this week.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President Javier Milei has issued a decree calling for extraordinary sessions to speed up reforms, reinstate the tax on salaries abolished by the previous government, and modernize the electoral process.

(Reuters) – Laura Lynch, a founding member of the U.S. country band “Dixie Chicks,” died in a head-on car crash on a Texas highway, law enforcement said yesterday.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – The Saudi-backed Yemeni government and Iran-aligned Houthis have both committed to steps towards a ceasefire, the U.N.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified today as a candidate for Russia’s next presidential election, preventing her from running against Vladimir Putin on a platform of opposition to the war in Ukraine.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli forces fought Hamas militants today  in northern Gaza, where it is seeking full control so it can focus on the south, a day after the U.N.

UNITED NATIONS/CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council called for boosting humanitarian assistance for Gaza, but the U.N.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday his government will reinforce measures to contain migration as he seeks to help the United States cope with record numbers of people trying to reach the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump urged two Michigan election officials not to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the state following the 2020 presidential election, personally calling them in a pressure campaign reminiscent of his Georgia tactics, the Detroit News reported.

(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin placed Russia’s biggest car dealership under temporary state management today, in a step the Kremlin said was driven by commercial logic but which its founder said made the country look uninvestable.

GAZA/UNITED NATIONS/CAIRO, (Reuters) – U.N. Security Council diplomats delayed until today a vote on a resolution to increase humanitarian aid into Gaza and another round of talks took place in Egypt to try to get warring Israel and Hamas to agree on a new truce so hostages can be released.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer held a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the Pentagon said, in the first such conversation in over a year amid hopes by U.S.

LUANDA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Angola said yesterday it would leave OPEC in a blow to the Saudi-led oil producer group that has sought in recent months to rally support for further output cuts to prop up oil prices.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart agreed during a call yesterday that more enforcement at the border between their countries is needed, the White House said, as record numbers of people trying to cross have disrupted trade.

CHISINAU,  (Reuters) – Moldova’s parliament dismissed central bank chief Octavian Armasu yesterday for failing to act over Moldova’s “theft of the century” fraud scandal in which $1 billion disappeared from the country’s banking system in 2014-15.

PRAGUE, (Reuters) – A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father, then killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at his Prague university yesterday before possibly killing himself, police said, marking the country’s worst-ever mass shooting.

(Reuters) – A former assistant to the actor Vin Diesel filed a lawsuit against him on Thursday alleging that he sexually battered her in 2010 and that she was fired from her job just hours later.

(Reuters) – In the longest known wrongful imprisonment case in modern U.S.