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A suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of a Houston police sergeant, officials said Tuesday.

An attorney representing a Tennessee homeowner is asking the Metro Nashville Community Oversight Board to investigate officers who responded to a breakin by a former New York officer during a drunken bachelor party two years ago.

A company in eastern Texas that sells about 200,000 smoked turkeys every holiday season was forced to shut down after a fire and at least two explosions destroyed part of the facility.

New Zealand Rugby has locked in dates for its domestic Super Rugby competition next year, adding a final in a likely boost to its strained finances.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that the NagornoKarabakh ceasefire agreement was the right step towards a lasting solution, the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday.

The United States said on Tuesday that the terms for a World Health Organizationled team of experts that is to investigate the origins of the new coronavirus were not transparently negotiated or conform with its mandate from member states.

Former Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure, who won acclaim as a champion of democracy before being toppled by a military coup in 2012, has died at the age of 72, an aide said on Tuesday.

Mozambique's state-owned media reported that the Militant Islamists chanted 'Allahu Akbar' as they they raided a village and abducted some of its women.

Italy will receive an initial 3.4 million shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, probably in January, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Thailand on Tuesday said a Hungarian diplomat had been infected with the novel coronavirus after being in contact with his foreign minister whose tour to the region was suspended last week after he tested positive for the virus.

Sweden's Ericsson set some new goals and maintained its 2022 operating margin target after the country's telecoms regulator halted 5G spectrum auctions, driving down the company's shares in early trade on Tuesday.

Former Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure, an army general who won acclaim for pursuing democratic reforms before being toppled by a military coup in 2012, has died at the age of 72, an aide said on Tuesday.

With Joe Biden's projected victory in the U.S. presidential election, South Korean officials are expecting a win of their own in a drawnout, multibillion dollar dispute with Washington over the cost of thousands of U.S. troops on the peninsula.

Some in the Kingdom worry that Biden could be a reset to the Obama years, which they believe was soft on Iran, and potentially unreliable for their security.

Belarus has shut down production at its new nuclear power plant, inaugurated on Saturday by President Alexander Lukashenko, to replace some of its equipment, its Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Monday.

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