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Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, drawing applause from her family and hundreds of citizens outraged over sexual violence against women.

FRANCE-PROTESTS-PENSIONS/ Transport chaos as strike against Macron reforms enters day two

PARIS (Reuters) - France faced a second day of travel chaos and understaffed schools and hospitals on Friday as unions said there would be no let-up in a strike against Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms until the president backed down. U.S.

CRIME-FLORIDA-SHOOTING/ Four people killed in failed robbery shootout in Florida

(Reuters) - Four people died in a shootout following the theft of a United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) truck and an attempted jewelry store robbery in a Miami suburb, the FBI and police said late on Thursday. UBER-SAFETY/

Uber says it received over 3,000 reports of sexual assault in U.S. in 2018 (Reuters) - Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc said it received over 3,000 reports of sexual assault related to its 1.3 billion rides in the United States last year, in a report aimed at ensuring drivers and the public it was serious about safety.

BUSINESS USA-ECONOMY/

Returning General Motors workers seen boosting U.S. November payrolls WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth likely accelerated in November as former striking workers returned to General Motors' (GM.N) payrolls, which would confirm that the economy remained on a moderate expansion path despite a prolonged manufacturing slump.

SAUDI-ARAMCO-IPO/ Saudi Aramco prices shares at top of range in world's biggest IPO

RIYADH/DUBAI Reuters - State-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) will be the biggest in history, but will fall short of the towering $2 trillion valuation long sought by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC-CAMILA-CABELLO/ Singer Camila Cabello says 'Romance' album is all about falling in love

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Camila Cabello is making up for lost time. The 22 year-old singer has been on a roll since joining girl band Fifth Harmony six years ago, going solo, and scoring hit records like "Havana" and duet "Senorita" with boyfriend Shawn Mendes. BULGARIA-ACTRESS-MUTAFOVA/

Bulgarian Mutafova, one of world's oldest actresses, dies at 97 SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian Stoyanka Mutafova, one of the world's oldest actresses performing regularly on stage, has died aged 97.

SPORTS BASKETBALL-NBA-NOTEBOOK/

NBA notebook: Portland reportedly will guarantee Anthony's deal The Portland Trail Blazers will change Carmelo Anthony's contract into a guaranteed deal, ESPN reported Thursday.

BASEBALL-MLB-NYY-COLE-YANKEES/ Report: Yankees set to offer Cole record-breaking contract

After coming up short against the Houston in the American League Championship Series in the fall, the New York Yankees appear poised to go after the Astros' ace during the winter. UPCOMING

CONFLICTS / WAR / PEACE UKRAINE-CRISIS/ZELENSKIY (PIX) (TV)

Ukraine's President visits eastern Donetsk region Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits eastern Donetsk region, where separatist conflict lasts for more than five years. Visit takes place ahead of Normandy summit due on December 9 in Paris.

6 Dec 10:30 ET, 15:30 GMT BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

TRADE-WTO/INTERNET New front in tariff war? Internet in focus at WTO Software and movie downloads could face tariffs for the first-time next year as countries such as India and South Africa have threatened to end a 20-year moratorium on taxing digital trade, according to trade delegates and World Trade Organization (WTO) documents.

6 Dec 10:30 ET, 15:30 GMT USA-FED/VOTERS

Fed voters a less hawkish bunch in 2020, lowering bar for U.S. rate cut The bar for cutting U.S. interest rates may get a little lower next year when a new crop of central bankers rotate into voting spots on the Federal Reserve's policy setting panel as part of its annual membership reshuffle.

6 Dec 12:00 ET, 17:00 GMT CLIMATE-CHANGE/JAPAN-LAKE (PIX) (TV) (GRAPHIC)

SPECIAL REPORT: In Japan, a lake recorded for centuries provides a climate change warning Records of Lake Suwa in the Japanese Alps date back to the 15th Century and represent one of the oldest continuous measurements of climate change. They chronicle feudal wars, landslides, droughts, and later, the dawn of industry in the town surrounding the lake. But as global temperatures have steadily risen in recent decades, Suwa's ice has also gradually disappeared.

6 Dec 12:00 ET, 17:00 GMT USA-ECONOMY/EASTHARTFORD (PIX)

Left behind: East Hartford struggles a decade after the crisis In East Hartford, Connecticut, a record-long economic expansion has felt like anything but. Home prices are still below their pre-crisis peak, job growth has been erratic and lagged the national pace and there are more than 1,000 fewer workers in the local labor force than a decade ago, even as jobs at aerospace giant Pratt & Whitney sit vacant.

6 Dec 13:30 ET, 18:30 GMT CITGO-RESULTS/

Refiner Citgo turns a profit in its third quarter, lays out plan to reinvest in operations Citgo Petroleum, the eighth largest U.S. refiner, is expected to disclose its third quarter results to investors on Friday.

6 Dec 17:00 ET, 22:00 GMT SPRINT-M&A/T-MOBILE

Final pretrial conference in states' lawsuit over planned Sprint, T-Mobile merger Final pretrial conference scheduled to begin in a lawsuit by more than a dozen states seeking to block the planned merger of Sprint and T-Mobile on the grounds that it is anti-competitive. The case is before U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan.

6 Dec 21:00 ET USA-HEALTHCARE/HAEMATOLOGY

American Society of Haematology The American Society of Haematology holds its annual conference, at which companies release their latest data on their developing treatments for blood diseases such as sickle cell anaemia and lymphoma.

7 Dec POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

USA-TRUMP/IMPEACHMENT-TRIAL EXPLAINER-Why putting Trump on trial in the U.S. Senate could get messy

U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to engage with the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry but is expected to adopt a very different strategy in the likely event of a trial in the Senate. The following explains how Senate impeachment proceedings work and some of the strategic manoeuvres available to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. 6 Dec 11:00 ET, 16:00 GMT

ALGERIA-PROTESTS/ (PIX) (TV) Algerians march in protest to reject presidential election

Algerian demonstrators who have been holding mass protests since February, march in the capital calling for the presidential election, scheduled for December 12, to be cancelled. 6 Dec 11:00 ET, 16:00 GMT

USA-TRUMP/IMPEACHMENT-DEMOCRATS (PIX) Vulnerable Democrats in U.S. Congress eager to move beyond impeachment

Politically vulnerable Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are eager to move quickly on the `1impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, and focus on other topics such as healthcare costs and repairing infrastructure. 6 Dec 11:00 ET, 16:00 GMT

FRANCE-PROTESTS/PENSIONS-SHOPPING (TV) Shop keepers, department stores worry over impact of transportation workers strike

French hoteliers say reservations in Paris are down sharply after visitors took fright over the threat of strikes and retailers fret a second disastrous Christmas season is in store , a year after "yellow vest" protests kept shoppers away for Paris' boutiques. 6 Dec 11:00 ET, 16:00 GMT

ITALY-RUSSIA/ (PIX) (TV) Russia's Lavrov meets with Italian Foreign Minister Di Maio

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and hold joint news conference in Rome. 6 Dec 11:30 ET, 16:30 GMT

TURKEY-POLITICS/ERDOGAN Turkey's Erdogan chairs AK Party executive committee

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan chairs a meeting of his AK Party's central decision-making executive committee behind closed doors. 6 Dec 12:00 ET, 17:00 GMT

FRANCE-CZECH/NATO France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits Prague

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits Prague and will give a speech at the Charles University to mark the anniversary of the country's transition to democracy in 1989. The minister will be available to press after the event, open to comment on the NATO summit held this week in London. 6 Dec 13:00 ET, 18:00 GMT

BRITAIN-ELECTION/DEBATE (PIX) (TV) UK PM Johnson and Labour leader Corbyn in head-to-head debate

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn face each other in a head-to-head debate on the BBC. 6 Dec 20:30 ET

ITALY-LASCALA/ (PIX) La Scala begins opera season

Milan's La Scala theatre begins opera season with "Tosca". 7 Dec

RUSSIA-BELARUS/ (TV) Putin and Lukashenko meet in Sochi

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko meet in Sochi, sign agreement on integration between the two countries. 7 Dec

ARTS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT NOBEL-PRIZE/LITERATURE (PIX) (TV)

Nobel literature laureates Handke and Tokarczuk hold news conference Austrian writer Peter Handke and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, who won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel literature prizes, hold a news conference in Stockholm ahead of the prize ceremony on December 10.

6 Dec 12:00 ET, 17:00 GMT CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE

PEOPLE-HARVEY WEINSTEIN/ (PIX) (TV) Producer Harvey Weinstein due in court for hearing on bail

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan Friday for a hearing on bail in his sexual assault case. The hearing has been scheduled a new state law reforming taking the New York's bail system is set to take effect Jan. 1. Weinstein is expected to be present. 6 Dec 14:30 ET, 18:30 GMT

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY CLIMATE-CHANGE/ALASKA-GLACIERS (PIX)

Disappearing frontier: Alaska's glaciers retreating at record pace As Alaska closes a year that is shaping up as its hottest on record, glaciers in the "Frontier State" melted at record or near-record levels this year, pouring waters into rising global seas, scientists said after taking fall measurements.

6 Dec 15:00 ET, 19:00 GMT CLIMATE-CHANGE/ACCORD (TV)

Spain hosts UN Climate Change Conference (COP-25) World leaders meet in Madrid for the 2019 U.N. climate change conference (COP25). The event, which was due to be held in Santiago, Chile in December, was relocated due to civil unrest in the country.

7 Dec SPORTS

SPORT-DOPING/RUSSIA Sport-Russia braces for four-year Olympic ban over doping scandal

Russia could be hit with a four-year Olympic ban on Monday for flouting anti-doping rules, a punishment local officials have said would be unfair and part of a malicious Western attempt to destroy sport in the country. We will also move a timeline charting the key events in the Russian doping story. 7 Dec

DISASTERS / ACCIDENTS HEALTH-MEASLES/SAMOA

Samoan government to reveal results of mass immunisation drive The Samoan government is set to release new data revealing what portion of the population is now vaccinated following a 2-day mass immunisation drive. More than 60 people, mainly babies and young children, have died from measles due to low immunisation rates there.

7 Dec

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