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(Reuters) – The Texas school district police chief who has come under withering criticism for the police response to the Uvalde school massacre has been placed on administrative leave by the district and could lose his position on the Uvalde City Council.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The United States will announce an offer of 300,000 work visas to Mexicans and Central Americans when the Mexican president visits Washington next month, Mexico’s interior minister said Wednesday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro, who won the country’s presidential election on Sunday, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro discussed reestablishing normal relations at the border between the two countries, both leaders said on Wednesday.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan today hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages.

HELSINKI, (Reuters) – Finland has prepared for decades for a Russian attack and would put up stiff resistance should one occur, its armed forces chief said.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian and Russian forces were entrenched in eastern Ukrainian battlegrounds today, a day of commemoration in both countries to mark the anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., (Reuters) – A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British subsidiary of mining and trading giant Glencore GLEN.L

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate took an initial step towards passing the country’s first major gun-control legislation in decades yesterday, galvanized by two mass shootings in a nation that has long struggled to curb chronic gun violence.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British subsidiary of mining and trading giant Glencore GLEN.L

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Francia Marquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will be Colombia’s first Black woman vice president after a historic vote on Sunday saw the Andean country pick its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine acknowledged difficulties in fighting in the east of the country as Russian forces captured territory and intensified pressure on two key cities ahead of an EU summit this week expected to welcome Kyiv’s bid to join the bloc.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The chief executive of Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras resigned yesterday in the face of mounting pressure from politicians following a fuel price hike last week, with a high-ranking company insider quickly tapped to replace him on an interim basis.

MONTERREY, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Her elderly neighbour is hard of hearing so Maria Luisa Robles, a convenience store worker in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, shouted the question a second time: Have you run out of water?

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Around 70,000 Belgian workers marched through Brussels today demanding government action to tackle sharply rising living costs, as one-day strikes at Brussels Airport and on local transport networks nationwide brought public travel to a near-halt.

 (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Canadian screenwriter and director Paul Haggis is under house arrest in southern Italy on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, accusations that Haggis denies, his lawyers said today.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections yesterday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to negotiate alliances with other parties.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy predicted Russia will escalate its attacks this week as European Union leaders consider whether to back Kyiv’s bid to join the bloc and Moscow presses its campaign to win control of the country’s east.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House panel investigating the January 2021 attack on the U.S.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s state-appointed human rights commission said in a statement late on Saturday that a video circulating on social media showed government security forces carrying out at least 30 extrajudicial killings in December 2021.