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BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Belgium’s King Philippe expressed deep regret yesterday for the “suffering and humiliation” inflicted on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during its 75-year period under Belgian rule.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A study of coronavirus infections that covered almost everyone in the quarantined north Italian town of Vò found that 40% of cases showed no symptoms – suggesting that asymptomatic cases are important in the spread of the pandemic.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to shake Britain’s economy out of its coronavirus-induced crisis today by fast-tracking infrastructure investment and slashing property planning rules.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Belgium’s King Philippe expressed deep regret today for the “suffering and humiliation” inflicted on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during its 75-year period under Belgian rule.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – California and Texas both marked record spikes in new COVID-19 infections yesterday, a Reuters tally showed, as Los Angeles reported an “alarming” one-day surge in America’s second-largest city that put it over 100,000 cases.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China’s parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong yesterday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony’s way of life since it returned to Chinese rule almost exactly 23 years ago.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.,  (Reuters) – An ex-policeman turned violent serial prowler known as the “Golden State Killer” pleaded guilty yesterday to 13 murders and confessed to dozens of rapes and home invasions that terrorized much of California during the 1970s and ’80s.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court defended abortion rights in a major ruling yesterday by striking down a Louisiana law placing restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure, leaving anti-abortion advocates and the White House bitterly disappointed.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Gunmen armed with grenades attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in the city of Karachi yesterday in a bid to take hostages, killing two guards and a policeman before security forces killed all four of the attackers, security officials said.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Gunmen armed with grenades attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in the city of Karachi today in a bid to take hostages, killing two guards and a policeman before security forces killed all four of the attackers, security officials said.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A French court today sentenced former Prime Minister Francois Fillon to five years in jail, three of them suspended, for embezzling public funds in a scandal that wrecked his 2017 run for president.

SYDNEY/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million people yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Chesapeake Energy Corp filed for Chapter 11 yesterday, becoming the largest U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 30,476 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 552 additional deaths, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Mississippi lawmakers have voted to remove a symbol of the pro-slavery Confederacy from the Deep South state’s flag, the latest symbol of racism to come down amid outrage at the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minnesota.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s bustling capital was once seen as a relative oasis in the country’s raging drug war, but a shocking military-style assassination attempt on the city’s police chief offers proof at least one gang is unafraid to shatter the peace.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said he was never briefed about Russian efforts to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S.

(Reuters) – Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” against insurgents, a lawmaker and a humanitarian group said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did some press ups to show he was “as fit as a butcher’s dog” in an interview with the Mail on Sunday newspaper, just months after he fought for his life in hospital against the coronavirus.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Global coronavirus cases is nearing 10 million according to a Reuters tally, marking a major milestone in the spread of the respiratory disease that has so far killed almost half a million people in seven months.