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 (Reuters) – Police in the U.S. city of Baltimore said that two people had died and 28 others were injured in a mass shooting early this morning at a housing block in the city.

(Reuters) – Yevgeny Prigozhin’s media holding group is to shut down, the director of one of its outlets said, highlighting the mercenary chief’s worsening fortunes a week after the collapse of a brief mutiny staged by his Wagner Group fighters.

(Reuters) – Thousands of people rallied yesterday in Australia to back a campaign to recognise the country’s Indigenous people in the constitution ahead of a referendum later this year, after a recent dip in support for the change.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Rioting across France appeared to be less intense yesterday, as tens of thousands of police had been deployed in cities across the country after the funeral of a teenager of North African descent, whose shooting by police sparked nationwide unrest.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Dutch King Willem-Alexander yesterday apologised for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – The mayor of Lisbon has been accused of “boycotting” Portugal’s first memorial to victims of slavery, a long-delayed project in a country still struggling to confront its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

(Reuters) – Rossiya Airlines, part of Russia’s Aeroflot AFLT.MM group, yesterday resumed scheduled flights to Cuba, which had been suspended since Western countries shut Russia out of their airspace in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Dutch King Willem-Alexander today apologised for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France deployed 45,000 police officers and some armoured vehicles on the streets today as riots rocked French cities for a fourth night over a teenager’s fatal shooting by an officer during a traffic stop.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday announced new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans and condemned the U.S.

(Reuters) – At least 48 people were killed in a road accident in Londiani, western Kenya, last evening when a lorry carrying a shipping container veered off the road and ploughed into several vehicles, police and witnesses said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) board controlled by the government of President Nicolas Maduro yesterday lost its latest appeal over $1.95 billion of the country’s gold reserves held in the Bank of England’s underground vaults.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat today, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt – a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France vowed to examine “all options” to restore order today, after rioters torched buildings and cars and looted stores across the country in a third night of rage sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of North African descent.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British international environment minister Zac Goldsmith resigned today, saying Britain had lost its claim to a global leadership role on climate and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was “uninterested” in environmental issues.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Finland’s economy minister Vilhelm Junnila resigned today just 10 days into his term in office, the nationalist Finns Party said, after being accused of making repeated Nazi references.

NANTERRE, France, (Reuters) – France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots yesterday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – At least 100 people have died over the past two weeks in Mexico due to heat-related causes as temperatures climbed close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of the country, the health ministry said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison after being convicted earlier this year of participating in a $60 million bribery scheme, prosecutors said.

(Reuters) – Panama expects international financial-crime watchdog FATF to remove it this October from a watch list for nations deemed to be doing too little to fight money laundering, the country’s deputy finance minister said, adding that other intergovernmental groups might follow suit.