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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – A man and a woman suspected of taking part in a shooting attack that killed 14 people and wounded 17 at a Southern California social services agency yesterday died in a shootout with police hours later, authorities said.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. atomic watchdog yesterday issued a report strongly suggesting Tehran had a nuclear weapons programme for years, but, in a sign of the shift in ties since Tehran’s deal with major powers in July, Washington said it was not concerned.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament voted yesterday to launch bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, supporting Prime Minister David Cameron’s case that the country needs to help destroy militants who are “plotting to kill us”.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will let divorced women and widows manage family affairs without approval from a man or a court order, a state-aligned newspaper said on Wednesday, a major step to lift some of the legal powers men hold over female relatives.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Constitutional Court blocked a Catalan secession drive yesterday, deepening confrontation and adding to political uncertainty in Spain before this month’s national election.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China will reduce emissions from major pollutants in the power sector by 60 percent by 2020, the cabinet announced today in state media.

(Reuters) With encouragement from 150 world leaders ringing in their ears, government negotiators in Paris sought yesterday to turn that rhetoric of unity into the text of a global deal to slow climate change.

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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday, promising billions of dollars to develop new green technology to solve a key sticking point of the negotiations: financing a low-carbon future for developing nations like India.

(Reuters) Chicago’s police chief was ousted yesterday after days of protest over a white officer’s shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department’s refusal to release a video of the killing for more than a year.

(BBC) The bitter backlash against Bollywood star Amir Khan’s remarks about “growing intolerance” in India tells us a few things about the world’s largest democracy.

PARIS (Reuters) – For world leaders attending a long-planned climate summit in Paris just weeks after 130 people were killed by Islamic State militants in the French capital, addressing the coincidental convergence of global warming and terrorism was unavoidable.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of US scientists and activists yesterday called for a global ban on the use of new tools to edit the genes of human embryos, in a report issued a day before a major international meeting in Washington to discuss the ethical and policy issues surrounding the technology.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Burundi is on the brink of a war that could have “potentially disastrous effects in an already fragile region” but there is no immediate need to deploy United Nations peacekeepers, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council yesterday.

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Roch Marc Kabore was proclaimed the winner of the presidential election in Burkina Faso and will become the country’s first new leader in decades, the Independent National Electoral Commission said today.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Senate yesterday confirmed President Barack Obama’s selection of Gayle Smith to be administrator of the country’s main humanitarian aid organization, the US Agency for International Development, seven months after her nomination.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Turkey promised to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck yesterday that the Turkish prime minister called a “new beginning” for the uneasy neighbours.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve urged French Muslim leaders yesterday to develop an “enlightened Islam” to confront what he called the obscurantist views of Islamic State that lead young Muslims into violence.

BANGUI, (Reuters) – Protected by the heaviest security ever seen on his trips, Pope Francis yesterday preached reconciliation in the divided Central African Republic, a nation racked by bloodshed between Muslims and Christians.

TEMA, Ghana, (Reuters) – A power-generating ship was officially welcomed at Ghana’s main port yesterday after arriving the previous day in what Power Minister Kwabena Donkor said was a bid to keep the country on track to end chronic blackouts.