| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Tuesday, December 13, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Supporters of Brazil's defeated Bolsonaro attack police headquarters, Bankman-Fried is charged by the SEC, and the U.S. is about to reveal a scientific milestone | | | | | Today's biggest stories  A bus is seen on fire as supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro protest in Brasilia, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado WORLD Supporters of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attempted to invade the federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia, in a flash of post-election violence on the day the president's electoral defeat was certified.
Russia and Ukraine pounded each other's forces in heavy fighting in the eastern region of Donetsk as Kyiv's allies met in Paris to provide urgent aid to help Ukrainians survive freezing winter temperatures. Russia is turning to decades-old ammunition with high failure rates as it burns through its stockpiles, a senior U.S. military official said.
People in China celebrated the withdrawal of a state-mandated app used to track whether they had traveled to COVID-stricken areas, in the latest loosening of some of the world's toughest anti-virus rules.
Indian troops prevented Chinese soldiers from entering Indian territory on December 9 during a border scuffle, the first such clash since 2020, that led to injuries on both sides, India's defense minister said. The incident occurred in the Tawang sector of India's northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh.
The European Parliament took steps to strip lawmaker Eva Kaili of her senior assembly post after she and others faced charges that World Cup host Qatar lavished them with cash and gifts to influence decisions, charges she has denied.
|  Migrants queue near the border wall to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez U.S. About 1,500 people crossed the Rio Grande on Sunday night from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, a Reuters witness said, amid an increase in migrant arrivals in the area ahead of the expiry of a pandemic-era order that blocks them at the U.S.-Mexico border.
A federal prosecutor told a court that four members of the far-right Oath Keepers should be found guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to use force to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in order to keep Donald Trump in the White House.
Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath today in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 presidential election.
The Senate will aim to vote on a bill to keep the federal government operating for one week past a Friday deadline, as Democrats and Republicans bicker over a longer-term measure likely to spend more than $1.5 trillion, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear President Joe Biden's appeal of a judge's ruling that found his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt unlawful, taking up the matter alongside another challenge to the policy that the justices are due to hear in the coming months.
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