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Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Tuesday Briefing: Ten killed in mass shooting at Colorado grocery store

Today's top stories

Ten killed at Colorado grocery store, inside Myanmar's 'spring revolution', and it's back to the future for bond investors

A man seen bloodied and limping as he was led away by police in handcuffs has been arrested on suspicion of killing 10 people, including a police officer, at a Colorado grocery store, marking America’s second fatal mass shooting in a week.

The gunman, who was not publicly identified, opened fire at a King Soopers outlet in Boulder, sending panicky shoppers and employees scurrying for cover as hundreds of police officers converged on the area.

U.S. officials are trying to drive home an increasingly emphatic message to the growing number of mostly Central American asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border every day: "Do not come. The border is closed." The reality on the ground is less clear.

In the months before former President Donald Trump left office in January, the U.S. Supreme Court briskly paved the way for the lethal injection of 13 federal inmates. We look at how the court is relying on a 'shadow docket' to make decisions in consequential cases, rapidly and with little to no explanation.

AstraZeneca may have provided an incomplete view of efficacy data on its COVID-19 vaccine from a large scale trial in the United States, a U.S. health agency says, in a fresh setback for the shot.

↑ A woman consoles a King Soopers pharmacy technician after a shooting at the grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, U.S., March 22 2021

WORLD

↑ Candles are lit in Blackburn Cathedral on the day of reflection to mark the anniversary of Britain's first COVID-19 lockdown, in Blackburn, Britain, March 23, 2021

A year to the day after they were first ordered to stay at home, Britons will remember the more than 126,000 people who have lost their lives to COVID-19. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson stunned the nation by shutting down much of the economy, fewer than 1,000 Britons had succumbed to the virus.

For the last seven weeks, Myint Htwe has been moving between secret locations, organizing meetings and planning protests. The 45-year-old is one of a group of deposed Myanmar lawmakers attempting to reconstruct the civilian government.

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the first such coordinated Western action against Beijing under President Joe Biden.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged mounting dissatisfaction with his handling of a series of allegations about the mistreatment of women in politics. Reports of lewd behavior include men filming themselves performing solo sex acts in Parliament House.

Business

U.S. stock index futures have tumbled as energy stocks drop while investors await remarks from Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for clues on the pace of economic rebound.

Widespread expectations of a coming U.S. economic boom are forcing bond fund managers to dust off their playbooks to combat a nemesis they have not had to worry about for more than a decade: inflation.

WeWork lost $3.2 billion last year, the office-sharing startup disclosed in a presentation shown to prospective investors as part of a pitch for $1 billion in investment and a stock market listing, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018, hedge fund manager Dominic Armstrong bet investors would be turned off and the kingdom’s debt would take a beating. In fact, demand for Saudi euro-denominated bonds was so strong last month that investors paid to lend the kingdom money.