| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, April 16, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Video shows Chicago police shooting a 13-year-old, Biden welcomes his first foreign leader, and Jeff Bezos says Amazon must do better | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Adam Toledo, 13, holds up his hands a split second before he was shot by police in Little Village, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 29, 2021 in a still image from police body camera video U.S. Chicago officials released to the public a graphic body-camera video showing a police officer shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy while he appeared to be raising his hands in an alley more than two weeks ago.
The nine-minute video from Eric Stillman's body camera showed the officer getting out of his squad car and running after Adam Toledo in Little Village, a Mexican neighborhood on the city's West Side.
Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin waived his right to testify to the jury about his part in the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd as both sides rested their cases at his murder trial, the most high-profile police misconduct case in decades.
A gunman shot eight people dead and injured several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life, police said early today.
|  FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Jimmy Lai leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, China, February 9, 2021 WORLD Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 14 months in prison while nine other activists have received jail time or suspended sentences for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during mass pro-democracy protests in 2019.
President Joe Biden will today welcome Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as the first foreign leader to visit his White House, underscoring Tokyo’s central role in the U.S. strategy to counter the challenge of China’s growing assertiveness.
Chinese carrier drills and stepped-up incursions into Taiwan's air defence zone in recent weeks are meant to send a message to Washington to stand down and back off, security sources in Taipei say.
Opponents of Myanmar's junta have announced a National Unity Government including ousted members of parliament and leaders of anti-coup protests and ethnic minorities, saying their aim is to root out military rule.
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