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AMSTERDAM/LONDON, (Reuters) – The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court case against Royal Dutch Shell last year, demanded 30 corporations publish plans for big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in a campaign launched yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Royal Family removed Prince Andrew’s military links and royal patronages yesterday and said he will no longer be known as “His Royal Highness”, as the son of Queen Elizabeth fights a U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s domestic spy service MI5 has warned lawmakers that the Chinese Communist Party has been employing a woman to exert improper influence over members of parliament.

AMSTERDAM/LONDON, (Reuters) – The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court victory against Royal Dutch Shell last year, is targeting 30 major corporate emitters of greenhouse gases in a campaign launched today.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – This year’s general election in Brasil will be a test for the country’s democracy due to threats by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro who has questioned the validity of its voting system, Human Rights Watch said today.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – NATO said yesterday it was willing to talk to Russia about arms control and missile deployments to avert the risk of war in Europe, but Moscow said the situation was “very dangerous” and the way forward was unclear.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – World Health Organization Emergency Director Mike Ryan yesterday refuted statements made by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus would be welcome and that it could even bring about the end of the pandemic.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Andrew failed to persuade a U.S.

(Reuters) – A fast-spreading Omicron variant that causes milder illness compared with previous versions of the coronavirus has fueled the view that COVID-19 poses less of a risk than in the past.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Oil prices that rallied 50% in 2021 will power further ahead this year, analysts predict, saying a lack of production capacity and limited investment in the sector could lift crude above $100 a barrel.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised today for attending a “bring your own booze” gathering at his official residence during the first coronavirus lockdown as opponents said he had to resign.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday made a full-throated appeal for U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, yesterday accused Republican Senator Rand Paul of spreading misinformation that has sparked threats of violence against him and his family while distracting the public from the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Reuters) – A passenger broke into the cockpit of an American Airlines jet at an airport in Honduras and damaged the plane as it was boarding for a flight to Miami before being taken into custody, the airline said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Central American Bank for Economic Integration said it would give Cuba a loan of 46.7 million euros ($53.1 million) to help bolster the communist-run country’s COVID-19 vaccine program as it seeks to ramp up production for both domestic use and export.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under fire yesterday after it emerged his private secretary had invited over 100 people to a “bring your own booze” party in the garden of Downing Street during the first coronavirus lockdown.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under fire today after it emerged his private secretary had invited over 100 people to a “bring your own booze” party in the garden of Downing Street during the first coronavirus lockdown.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – A prominent Ugandan writer and critic of long-ruling leader Yoweri Museveni has been charged with communications offences related to tweets critical of the president and his son, the charge sheet showed on Tuesday.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – A U.S. man with terminal heart disease was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, and three days later the patient is doing well, his doctors reported yesterday.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Russia and the United States gave no sign of narrowing their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva yesterday, as Moscow repeated demands that Washington says it cannot accept.