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BEIJING/ MOSCOW/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China and Russia on the opening day of the Winter Olympics declared a “no limits” partnership, backing each other over standoffs on Ukraine and Taiwan with a promise to collaborate more against the West.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame for taking on then-U.S.

WARRI, Nigeria/LONDON, (Reuters) – An oil vessel used for storage that exploded off the coast of Nigeria this week had not been maintained for sometime and had technical issues, two sources and an environmental group said yesterday, as its wreckage lay in the sea after the fire was put out.

(Reuters) – In a sharp admonishment of his former boss, former U.S.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia and China called in a joint statement today for NATO to halt its expansion while Moscow said it fully supported Beijing’s stance on Taiwan and opposed Taiwanese independence in any form.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Board members of four major oil companies declined to appear at a U.S.

AMMAN/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The leader of Islamic State died when he blew himself and family members up during a U.S.

WARRI, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – An oil production and storage vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board though it was unclear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro met with Peru’s President Pedro Castillo yesterday and pressed him on a project to build a cross-border road that would allow Brazil access to the Pacific.

(Reuters) – Shares in Facebook owner Meta fell 20% in U.S.

AMMAN/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The leader of the jihadist group Islamic State died in a U.S.

BAYELSA, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – An oil production vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early yesterday with 10 crew members on board though it was not yet clear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday said President Jair Bolsonaro committed a crime by publicly revealing details about a sealed criminal probe, but would not recommend charging him given his immunity while in office.

HOUSTON/MARACAY, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s oil exports plummeted in January to the lowest level since September amid loading bottlenecks caused by returned and rescheduled crude cargoes, according to internal documents from state-run PDVSA and tanker tracking data.

JALALABAD,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.

 (Reuters) – Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s “The View” talk show yesterday for asserting a day earlier that the Holocaust was “not about race,” the network’s news division president said, addressing a furor over the comments.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s armed forces would respect a victory by leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva in this year’s presidential race, two retired generals told Reuters, adding to recent signs by military brass distancing themselves from the political project of far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ will likely stick to existing policies of moderate output increases yesterday, five sources from the producers’ group said even as it expects demand to rise to new peaks this year and as oil prices trade near their highest since 2014.

BISSAU,  (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup yesterday but said many members of the security forces had been killed repelling an attack on democracy that may have been linked to drug trafficking.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Amnesty International accused Israel yesterday of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of “segregation, dispossession and exclusion” that it said amounted to crimes against humanity.