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North America A teen gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a 14-year-old student and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon. After the shooting stopped police spotted the suspect slumped on a toilet in a bathroom at Reynolds High School. President Barack Obama said of the incident: “My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage.” Latin America More than 1000 acrobats, clowns and other circus employees marched through downtown Mexico City to protest against a new ban on animals in circuses. There can be no lions or tigers or bears — not even dogs or horses — in circus rings under a law passed without opposition in the city legislature. Circus performers say the law will leave animals and humans unemployed. Chile’s Government has rejected a US$8 billion ($9.3 billion) proposal to dam Patagonian rivers to meet the country’s growing energy demands, handing a victory to environmentalists who praised the ruling as a landmark moment. The project would have built five dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in Aysen, a mostly roadless region of southern Patagonia. Asia/Oceania Brisbane mother Allison Baden-Clay had a jumper wrapped around her head and neck when her body was found on a creek bank in 2012, forensic police have told the murder trial of her husband Gerard Baden-Clay. How she died remains a mystery. Thousands of South Korean police have forced their way into the compound of a splinter religious group in their search for a fugitive businessman wanted in connection with April’s ferry disaster. The police said 6000 officers were involved in the raid. Europe An injured potholer who is trapped deep in an alpine cave in Germany can walk, rescue teams said yesterday, but the rescue could still take days. Taxi drivers in London, Paris and other European capitals plan to bring chaos to the streets in protest against unlicensed mobile car-hailing services such as Uber that have shaken up the industry. From London’s black cabs to taxis in Rome, Paris and Berlin, traditional cabbies were to protest today against a rise in unlicensed drivers and chauffeur services.