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PARIS, (Reuters) – French police fired tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs-Elysees avenue and other places in Paris today after a “Freedom Convoy” protesting against COVID-19 restrictions made it into the capital.

(Reuters) – A China-based financier, once reprimanded by U.S. regulators and barred from taking his company public, played a bigger role than is publicly known in the shell company that agreed to merge with former President Donald Trump’s new social media venture, Reuters has learned.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Americans in Ukraine should leave within 48 hours as Russia could attack at any time, likely with an air assault, the White House said yesterday as Moscow accused Western nations of lying to distract from their own aggressive acts.

WINDSOR, Ontario/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Canadian judge yesterday ordered an end to the four-day-long blockade of a key Canada-U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, to prevent Russia getting hold of Macron’s DNA, two sources in Macron’s entourage told Reuters.

BRUSSELS/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Britain said yesterday the “most dangerous moment” in the West’s standoff with Moscow appeared imminent, as Russia held military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea following the buildup of its forces near Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration yesterday unveiled its plan to award nearly $5 billion over five years to build thousands of electric vehicle charging stations.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London police chief Cressida Dick resigned yesterday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said, after he told her he was not satisfied she could root out the racism, sexism and other problems that still existed within the force.

ISLA PESCADORES, Peru,  (Reuters) – Peppered with fishing boats and thousands of hungry marine birds, from afar Peru’s protected Isla Pescadores – Spanish for Fishermen’s Island – looks much as it always has.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said today, the second time that the heir-to-the-throne has contracted the disease.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A geomagnetic storm triggered by a large burst of radiation from the sun has disabled least 40 of the 49 satellites newly launched by SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet communications network, the company said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is leading early polls ahead of October elections, said yesterday he would propose less taxation on the poor and more on the rich if he wins, and reduce fuel prices.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday said diplomatic relations with Spain should pause, turning on Mexico’s former colonial power as he sought to deflect criticism of his plan to strengthen state control of the power market.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Canadian truckers blockade is posing a risk to the auto industry’s supply chain and U.S.

ANTANANARIVO,  (Reuters) – The death toll in Madagascar from Cyclone Batsirai rose to 92, the state disaster relief agency said yesterday, as information continued to filter in from areas of the country that were badly affected.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ central bank (DNB) said today it deeply regretted the important role many of its early directors played in the 19th century slave trade, as shown by an independent investigation into the bank’s early years.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Russia has promised that military equipment given to Venezuela will not be used to attack Colombia, destabilize Latin America or end up in the hands of illegal armed groups, Colombia’s Foreign Minister and Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez said.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – The Spanish company in charge of a truck that exploded and killed 13 people last month en route to an internationally-run gold mine in Ghana violated storage and transport laws and has been fined $6 million, the lands ministry said yesterday.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Former Pope Benedict yesterday acknowledged that errors occurred in the handling of sexual abuse cases while he was Archbishop of Munich decades ago but did not directly address allegations in a report that he mishandled four cases.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States placed then-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on a blacklist last year, denying him entry for corrupt or anti-democratic actions, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday, as the listing was declassified.