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(Reuters) – The outgoing leader of Haiti’s senate yesterday said he would continue to lead sessions despite his term in office expiring, amid continued weakening of state institutions following last year’s assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Heavy rainfall in southeastern Brazil has prompted miners including Vale SA to suspend some operations, they said on Monday, after downpours caused deadly floods in the northeast and threatened to delay harvests in the midwest.

 (Reuters) – Police in Los Angeles, California, pulled the pilot from a crash-landed Cessna seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train yesterday, sending debris flying in all directions.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – World tennis number one Novak Djokovic was released from Australian immigration detention today after winning a court challenge to remain in the country, but the government said it was still considering another move to deport him.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire started by a malfunctioning space heater spread smoke through a low-income building in The Bronx borough of New York City yesterday, city officials said.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked China to help restructure debt repayments as part of efforts to help the South Asian country weather a worsening financial crisis, his office said in a statement yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Bob Saget, an actor and comedian best known as the jovial dad on the television sitcom “Full House,” was found dead in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida, at age 65, authorities said yesterday.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – West African nations will close their borders with Mali, sever diplomatic ties and impose tough economic sanctions in response to its “unacceptable” delay in holding elections following a 2020 military coup, the 15-state regional bloc said on Sunday.

ALMATY, (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s president fired two more top security officials yesterday after the worst unrest in three decades of post-Soviet independence and authorities said the situation was stabilising, with Russian-led troops guarding key facilities.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured from an apartment building fire in The Bronx borough of New York City today, according to city officials.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – The Australian government had not given tennis star Novak Djokovic an assurance that a medical exemption he said he had to enter Australia without a COVID-19 vaccination would be accepted, government lawyers said in a court filing on Sunday.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – Kazakhstan authorities said today they had stabilised the situation across the country after the deadliest outbreak of violence in 30 years of independence, and troops from a Russian-led military alliance were guarding “strategic facilities”.

(Reuters) – A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the U.S.

(Reuters) – Dozens of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan over the past week during the worst violence seen in the Central Asian nation since it became independent in the early 1990s.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – China yesterday pledged $63 million in grants to Maldives for infrastructure projects, in a bid to deepen cooperation between the two countries.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, (Reuters) – An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideouts this week, residents said yesterday.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of Kazakhstan’s main city yesterday after days of violence, and the Russian-backed president said he had ordered his troops to shoot to kill to put down a countrywide uprising.

(Reuters) – A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what he called the “chilling” 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man running through their mostly white neighbourhood in the southern U.S.

(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc staff in the United States who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan.

LOUISVILLE, Colo., (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, visiting the scene of Colorado’s most destructive wildfire on record, said yesterday the rare winter blaze marked the latest “code red” reminder of an ominously changing climate he hopes to confront with his renewable energy agenda.