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The European Central Bank unveils a new crisis-fighting tool to keep the borrowing costs of indebted eurozone governments like Italy under control as interest rates rise for the first time in a decade. Dubbed the "Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI)", the targeted bond-buying scheme "can be activated to counter unwarranted, disorderly market dynamics that pose a serious threat to the transmission of monetary policy across the euro area," says ECB President Christine Lagarde. SOUNDBITE by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB
"We're still working with the coroner's office in order to identify who the fatal victims are so that we can notify the family members," Omar Watson, chief of the California Highway Patrol's Border Division, says following a collision between an SUV and a truck in Southern California that officials said killed at least 13 people. SOUNDBITE
The Nobel jury announces that Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States have won the Nobel Chemistry Prize "for the development of a method for genome editing." SOUNDBITE
The United States will use all options to free two Americans said to be detained in a failed mercenary attack in Venezuela, says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. "If the Maduro regime decides to hold them, we will use every tool that we have available to try to get them back," Pompeo tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe are greeted by Renault CEO Luca de Meo as they arrive at the Renault Group site in Sandouville to tour of the industrial line of the auto maker's plant in Normandy. IMAGES