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Riot police clashed with protesters in the streets Wednesday night outside a soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, as authorities sought to keep Catalonia's separatist movement from disrupting the game viewed by 650 million people worldwide.

Japanese journalist Shiori Ito has won her civil lawsuit seeking damages from a prominent reporter who she said had raped her, a verdict welcomed by women's rights advocates in a country where sexual assault victims often stay silent.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced the Justice Department plans to increase federal law enforcement resources in seven cities it said have violent crime rates high above the national average.