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JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection well enough to trigger a new wave, but are far less able to thrive in the blood of people vaccinated against COVID-19, South African scientists have found.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Two people died and another was missing yesterday after heavy rainfall caused flooding on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Friday night, local authorities said on Twitter.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – A drought-driven wildfire in northern New Mexico exploded into a “megafire” of 100,000 acres, or 157 square miles, yesterday and could still more than double in size, a fire official said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv to vow continued support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as Moscow said it had struck at weapons supplied by Western nations in the country’s south.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Two top executives of Nicaragua’s largest business association have been convicted of “undermining national integrity”, in the latest of a series of judicial actions against political opponents of President Daniel Ortega.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Washington should make it clear to the “messianic” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that any effort to undermine his country’s elections would trigger multilateral sanctions, a newly retired U.S.

(Reuters) – The United States has held high-level talks with the UK over how they can co-operate more closely to reduce the chances of war with China over Taiwan and to explore conflict contingency plans for the first time, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the situation.

OMAHA, Neb., (Reuters) – Warren Buffett yesterday used the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc to reveal major new investments including a bigger stake in Activision Blizzard Inc while also railing against Wall Street excess and addressing the risks to his conglomerate of inflation and nuclear war.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian forces have stolen “several hundred thousand tonnes” of grain in the areas of Ukraine they occupy, Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister said on Saturday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine warned yesterday that peace talks with Moscow were in danger of collapse and said Russia was pounding areas in the east as U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday he would look at changing government spending rules after October’s election in order to make room for more infrastructure investments, raising alarms among economic policymakers.

(Reuters) – Russia’s total number of COVID-related deaths has exceeded 803,000 since the start of the pandemic in April 2020, Reuters calculations based on new data from the Rosstat state statistics service showed on Friday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso yesterday declared a 60-day state of emergency, including curfews in some areas and the deployment of thousands of security forces, in three of the country’s 24 provinces, citing a rise in crime.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – At least one protesting indigenous community continued yesterday to occupy MMG’s 1208.HK

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine acknowledged today it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse, as U.S.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan/AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heave wave today showed no signs of abating.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing closed more businesses and residential compounds today, with authorities ramping up contact tracing to contain a COVID-19 outbreak, while resentment at the month-long lockdown in Shanghai grew.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Two Russian missiles struck Kyiv during a visit by the head of the United Nations, Ukrainian officials said, but the West believes the battles for the besieged port of Mariupol and other areas in the east and south may determine the war’s outcome.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights committee said yesterday that Brazil graft investigators violated due process in bringing a case against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that led to his imprisonment and barred him from running for office in 2018.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – As many as 12.38 million Shanghai residents, nearly half the population of China’s financial hub, are now in lower-risk areas, meaning they can leave their homes, the government said yesterday.