U.S. Capitol Police are responding to reports that a vehicle hit two officers and that the suspect is in custody; all three were taken to hospital
Streets surrounding the U.S. Capitol and congressional office buildings were locked down, with a heavy police presence, a @Reuters eyewitness said, amid reports that a motorist had tried to run down two officers reut.rs/31JUWGe
Capitol and congressional office buildings were forced into high alert while law enforcement authorities investigated, Capitol Police said, after a motorist rammed a vehicle into two U.S. Capitol Police officers reut.rs/3cMtCgM
Capitol Police say an officer has died after a knife-armed suspect rammed his car into officers. The suspect has died and a second injured officer is hospitalized reut.rs/2R3T9tF
Yogananda Pittman, acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, gave details of the attack that killed one Capitol Police officer and injured another. The suspect died after police responded reut.rs/31ERmNP
U.S Capitol Police identify slain officer as William Evans, an 18-year veteran of the force reut.rs/3uh4LaT
President Biden says he is heartbroken to learn of the violent attack that killed a veteran Capitol Police officer and has ordered the White House flags to be lowered to half-mast reut.rs/3dst2Em
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ByteDance reduced its Indian workforce after India maintained a ban on its TikTok app, imposed last year after a border clash between India and China
India ordered HSBC and Citibank to freeze ByteDance India’s bank accounts as it probed some of the unit’s financial dealings. ByteDance challenged the freeze
Ababu Negash, 70, said she fled Adebay, a town in western Tigray, after Amhara officials summoned Tigrayans to meetings in February.
'They said if we stay, they will kill us' Ababu said in the town Shire, where many from west Tigray are fleeing reut.rs/39jW7Az 1/5
Four months after the Ethiopian government declared victory over the rebellious Tigray People's Liberation Front, tens of thousands of Tigrayans are again being driven from their homes 2/5
This time, it is due not to the fighting, but to regional forces and militiamen from neighboring Amhara seeking to settle a decades-old land dispute, according to witnesses, aid workers and members of Tigray's new administration 3/5
Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd when he arrested him last May, a prosecutor tells jurors in his opening statement at Chauvin's murder trial reuters.com/article/us-usa…
‘You will learn that on May 25, Mr. Derek Chauvin betrayed this badge when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of George Floyd,’ Jerry Blackwell, prosecutor with the Minnesota attorney general’s office, said during the trial. Watch live pscp.tv/w/czCDRTF4a2pE…
A coalition of civil rights groups has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s sweeping new voting restrictions, arguing that the Republican-backed law is intended to make it harder for people – particularly Black voters – to cast ballots reut.rs/3d8AjsF 1/4
Among other limits, the law imposed stricter identification requirements, limited drop boxes, gave lawmakers the power to take over local elections and shortened the early voting period for all runoff elections 2/4
The legislation has alarmed Democrats, who just months ago celebrated historic wins in the presidential election and two Senate campaigns in Georgia that helped deliver the White House and U.S. Senate control to their party in Washington 3/4
Eight tug boats were attempting to free a long container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking vessels passing through one of the world’s most important waterways, the authority that runs the canal said reut.rs/2P5S7fU
The 224,000-tonne Ever Given was stranded on Tuesday morning after losing the ability to steer amid high winds and a dust storm, the Suez Canal Authority said
The authority said it was sparing no effort to ensure regular navigation through the canal, but it was unclear how soon the vessel would be free and sources said delays to shipping were expected
'What we're trying to look into are other strains of coronavirus that have the potential to jump to humans,' said ecologist Philip Alviola, who has studied bat viruses for more than a decade reut.rs/2OS1z6P by 📷 Eloisa Lopez and Adrian Portugal 1/5
Researchers wearing headlamps and protective suits race to untangle the claws and wings of bats caught up in a big net after dark in the Philippine province of Laguna 2/5
The researchers call themselves the 'virus hunters,' tasked with catching thousands of bats to develop a simulation model they hope will help the world avoid a pandemic similar to COVID-19 3/5