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CHESAPEAKE, Va., (Reuters) – A Walmart supervisor armed with a handgun and several magazines of ammunition opened fire on fellow employees in a Virginia store, killing six people before turning the gun on himself in a break room, witnesses and police said yesterday.

PRISTINA,  (Reuters) – Kosovo and Serbia reached a deal on Wednesday to end a nearly two-year dispute over car licence plates in northern Kosovo, which the West had warned could trigger ethnic violence, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said.

 (Reuters) – There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and weakened surveillance of the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S.

 (Reuters) – Seven people were killed and several wounded in a shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, last night, authorities said, just days after a gunman killed five and injured 17 at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Scottish government cannot hold a second referendum on independence without approval from the British parliament, the United Kingdom’s top court ruled today, dealing a hammer blow to nationalists’ hopes of holding a vote next year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A woman who alleges that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her into having an abortion in 1993 yesterday challenged the Republican, who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, to meet her publicly before next month’s Georgia run-off election.

NEW YORK/LONDON, (Reuters) – Stricken crypto exchange FTX was run as a “personal fiefdom” of Sam Bankman-Fried, attorneys for the firm said on Tuesday, describing that one of the company’s units spent $300 million on Bahamas real estate.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday fired the entire leadership of the Roman Catholic Church’s worldwide charity arm following accusations of bullying and humiliation of employees, and appointed a commissioner to run it.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government promised to create shelters to provide heat and water and encouraged citizens to conserve energy as a harsh winter loomed amid relentless Russian strikes that have left its power structure in tatters.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday cleared the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House of Representatives committee, handing a defeat to the Republican former president who had called the Democratic-led panel’s request politically motivated.

NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought at least 19 properties worth nearly $121 million in the Bahamas over the past two years, official property records show.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Beijing shut parks and museums yesterday while more Chinese cities resumed mass testing for COVID-19, as China fights a fresh nationwide spike in cases that has deepened concerns about its economy.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainians braced for a winter with little or no power in several areas including Kyiv where temperatures have already dropped below freezing as relentless Russian strikes crippled half of the country’s energy capacity.

CIANJUR, Indonesia,  (Reuters) – Indonesian rescue workers were racing today to reach people still trapped in rubble a day after an earthquake devastated a West Java town, killing at least 162 people and injuring hundreds, as officials warned the death toll may rise.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Conservation group The Nature Conservancy’s vision for the future of coral protection involves speed boats, and a global army of snorkellers and divers deployed when tropical storms and hurricanes damage reefs.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, with rescuers trying to reach survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks as night fell.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Countries closed this year’s U.N. climate summit yesterday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its lack of ambition in tackling the emissions causing them.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling yesterday, drawing condemnation from the U.N.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,  (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire inside a LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs late on Saturday, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before being stopped by “heroic” clubgoers, police said.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s clerical rulers have stepped up suppression of persistent anti-government protests in the country’s Kurdish region, deploying troops and killing at least four demonstrators on Sunday, social media posts and rights groups said.