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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The owner of Brazil’s biggest homegrown grains trader told Reuters he is in talks with Canadian investor Stan Bharti to help develop the largest potash mine in Latin America, in a push to wean Brazilian farmers off costly fertilizer imports.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her libel lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge already had said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Scores of Honduran police officers yesterday surrounded the house of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez after the United States asked the government to arrest and extradite Washington’s key erstwhile ally in the region.

MOSCOW/KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukrainians to fly the country’s flags from buildings and sing the national anthem in unison on Feb.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said yesterday he will throw out Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, after concluding that an editorial in the newspaper did not maliciously link the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Tensions between Russia and the West are driving oil prices, rather than the kind of fundamental fuel shortage that would justify accelerated output increases from OPEC+, UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said on Monday.

WINDSOR, Ontario/WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – North America’s busiest trade link reopened for traffic late last evening, ending a six-day blockade, Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the protesters fighting to end COVID-19 restrictions.

KAUNAS AIRPORT, Lithuania,  (Reuters) – A German military aircraft carrying troop reinforcements landed in Lithuania today, the first of several planned NATO deployments amid fears in the region about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia could invade Ukraine at any time and might create a surprise pretext for an attack, the United States said yesterday, as it reaffirmed a pledge to defend “every inch” of NATO territory.

WINDSOR, Ontario/WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – North America’s busiest trade link will reopen for traffic, ending a six-day blockade, a top U.S.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Tunisia’s president cemented his grip over the judiciary today with a decree that lets him dismiss judges or block their promotion, helping consolidate his power after he seized executive authority last summer in a move his foes call a coup.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden told Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday that the West would respond decisively to any invasion of Ukraine, adding such a step would produce widespread suffering and isolate Moscow.

WINDSOR, Ontario, (Reuters) – A standoff between Canadian police and protesters blocking a key bridge to the United States continued yesterday, hours after authorities moved in seeking to end the blockade of the important trade corridor.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – A convoy of fighters moved into Tripoli from the Libyan city of Misrata yesterday to shore up the interim prime minister amid a push by the parliament to oust him in favour of its own candidate.

(Reuters) – Ayesha Imthiaz, a devout Indian Muslim who considers wearing a hijab an expression of devotion to the Prophet Mohammad, says a move by her college to expel hijab-wearing girls is an insult that will force her to chose between religion and education.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan’s central bank on Saturday criticised Washington’s plan to use half the bank’s $7 billion in frozen assets on U.S.

(Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants.

WINDSOR, Ontario, (Reuters) – Canadian police began clearing protesters blocking a key bridge linking Canada and the United States today, more than 12 hours after a court order came into effect that ended a blockade that had snarled international trade.