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MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico has asked Chinese fast fashion company Shein to explain its use of cultural elements from the Mayan indigenous community in the design of one of its garments.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The migratory monarch butterfly, which has for millennia turned North American woodlands into kaleidoscopes of colour in one of nature’s most spectacular mass migrations, is threatened with extinction, international conservationists said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal today to reopen Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to grain exports, Turkey said, a hopeful sign that an international food crisis caused by Russia’s invasion could be eased.

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O yesterday agreed to buy primary care provider One Medical ONEM.O

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump sat for hours watching the attack on the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the United States, has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue working but in isolation, the White House said yesterday.

SOMERSET, Mass./WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that climate change is an emergency but stopped short of a formal declaration, announcing a modest package of executive actions and promising more aggressive efforts.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian armed forces said yesterday they had killed 111 Russian soldiers in the south and east over the past day, as comments from Russia’s foreign minister showed the Kremlin’s goals had grown during the five-month war.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – As 90-year-old Indian woman Reena Varma stands on the balcony of the house in Pakistan where she was born, visiting on Wednesday for the first in 75 years, she recalls her playful childhood.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – A former Mexican beauty queen and a Romanian-Dutch accomplice have been arrested in Croatia over the theft of $1.7 million worth of prestige bottles of wine in Spain after a nine-month chase across Europe, police said yesterday.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president today, hoping his long experience in government would help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain’s next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president today, hoping his long experience in government would help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – Singer and actor Ricky Martin is scheduled to appear tomorrow in a Puerto Rico court where a judge will decide whether to extend a restraining order taken out by a man who said Martin harassed him, which the pop icon denies.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran yesterday, stressing closer ties in the face of Western pressure over the war in Ukraine, where Russian forces struck more targets across the country.

(Reuters) – Brazil has a strong track record of free, fair and transparent elections and the United Sates trusts that its electoral system will reflect the will of the people in the October election, a U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s government warned yesterday that it would take “forceful measures” if U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British former finance minister Rishi Sunak held on to his lead yesterday among Conservative lawmakers in the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, but his two remaining rivals were closing the gap, leaving the race wide open.

YAOUNDE,  (Reuters) – Cameroon’s anti-corruption agency is investigating claims by miner and commodities trader Glencore Plc GLEN.L

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce new federal measures aimed at the climate crisis tomorrow during a trip to Massachusetts, but will stop short of declaring a climate emergency, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said today.