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RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejected an offer of aid from Argentina, saying yesterday that his country did not need the assistance dealing with deadly floods that have affected broad swaths of the country’s northeast and killed dozens.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Chile’s free and fair elections set a “powerful example” for the region and the world, U.S.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – A booster dose of Johnson & Johnson Inc’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine was 84% effective at preventing hospitalization in South African healthcare workers who became infected as the Omicron variant spread, researchers said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty by a U.S.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – The police raid and arrests at the now-closed pro-democracy Stand News outlet were law enforcement actions and were not aimed at the media industry, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said today.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News shut down today after police raided its office, froze its assets and arrested senior staff on suspected “seditious publication” offences, in the latest crackdown on the city’s media.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s oldest human rights group to disband yesterday for breaking a law requiring it to act as “a foreign agent”, capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York state appeals court yesterday put on hold part of a trial judge’s decision blocking the New York Times from reporting on documents prepared by a lawyer for the conservative activist group Project Veritas.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Body-camera video released yesterday showed the chaotic, violent moments leading to the fatal Los Angeles police shooting of an assault suspect in a clothing store, and of a 14-year-old girl caught in the line of fire while hiding inside a dressing room.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Body-camera video released yesterday showed the chaotic, violent moments leading to the fatal Los Angeles police shooting of an assault suspect in a clothing store, and of a 14-year-old girl caught in the line of fire while hiding inside a dressing room.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South Africans remembered anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu with cathedral bells, flowers and warm words yesterday, a day after he died in a Cape Town nursing home aged 90.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Poland’s president vetoed a media bill that critics said was aimed at silencing a Discovery-owned news channel that is critical of the government, citing worries about the strain the law would put on relations with Washington.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc said yesterday it has closed all of its 12 New York City stores to indoor shopping as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant surged across the United States.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The Indian government yesterday “refused” to renew a permission that is vital for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to be able to secure foreign funds, cutting off a key source the charity has depended on to run its programmes for the impoverished.

ITABUNA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Two dams gave way in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia after weeks of heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers as flooding hit towns across the region, authorities said yesterday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government today froze the bank accounts of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity (MoC) in West Bengal, the state’s political leader said on Monday, after weekend protests over Christmas celebrations.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, died today at the age of 90, the presidency said.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Commercial airlines around the world canceled more than 4,500 flights over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant created greater uncertainty and misery for holiday travelers.

(Reuters) – The James Webb Space Telescope, a NASA instrument designed to allow humankind’s first glimpse of the infant universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies are believed to have formed, was set for launch today from the northeastern coast of South America.

BANJUL,  (Reuters) – A Gambian truth and reconciliation commission said in a report published yesterday that former President Yahya Jammeh was responsible for a spree of killings, torture and rapes during his 22-year rule over the tiny West African nation.