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Police officers guard the location near where an officer was been shot, after protesters clashed with police after a grand jury considering the March killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, voted to indict one of three white police officers for wanton endangerment, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. September 23, 2020

00:46 GMT 24 September 2020 / updated: 03:16 GMT US

Video: At Least 2 LMPD Officers Shot in Louisville Amid Protests Over Breonna Taylor Decision

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is seen as he arrives at Downing Street

UK Chancellor Zeroes In on COVID-Induced Winter Emergency Plan to Avoid ‘Tsunami’ of Job Losses

Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, 2 July 2020, in New York

Epstein's Housekeeper Claims Maxwell Said She Hated the Billionaire Financier, but Couldn't Leave

A scientist works during the visit of Britain's William, Duke of Cambridge, to the manufacturing laboratory where a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been produced at the Oxford Vaccine Group's facility at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, Britain, 24 June 2020

UK to 'Deliberately Infect' Volunteers With Coronavirus to Test Anti-COVID Vaccine

People watch the TV as Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the nation in The White Hart pub in Hemel Hempstead, Britain, 22 September 2020. REUTERS/Paul Childs

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Asia & Pacific
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