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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, part of Washington’s continued pushback against Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The city of Washington, D.C., sued right-wing groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers yesterday, seeking to collect on the financial costs of the deadly Jan.

(Reuters) – An ethics panel in New York yesterday ordered former Governor Andrew Cuomo to return $5.1 million he received for his memoir after finding he failed to follow state ethics regulations, a spokesperson with the commission said.

(Reuters) – New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams will appoint a woman to serve as commissioner of the city’s police department for the first time in its 176-year history, local media reported yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate yesterday approved raising the federal government’s debt limit by $2.5 trillion, to about $31.4 trillion, and sent it to the House of Representatives to pass and avert an unprecedented default.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A World Trade Organization panel ruled in favour of Brazil, Australia and Guatemala yesterday in their trade disputes with India over sugar subsidies and asked New Delhi to conform with global rules.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, according to a major real-world study which suggests weaker efficacy against the new Omicron variant.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – Nearly a year after COVID-19 vaccines were first administered in the United States, the country is returning to many of the hallmarks that defined earlier pandemic life: mask mandates, mass vaccination sites, crowded hospitals and a rising death toll.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – The United States and Qatar have assured Turkey that Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum will stay out of Turkey’s continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday, after the companies were given an energy exploration license in disputed waters.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan hosted Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett, yesterday in the first-ever public meeting between the United Arab Emirates’ de facto ruler and an Israeli leader.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Nigeria will destroy around one million expired COVID-19 vaccines, Faisal Shuaib, head of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said yesterday, adding his agency was working with drug regulator NAFDAC to set a date for their destruction.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Geneva’s chief prosecutor said yesterday he had closed a criminal investigation into allegations Spain’s former king Juan Carlos laundered “illegal commission” payments from Saudi Arabia, due to insufficient evidence.

Harnaaz Sandhu, of India, was named Miss Universe today in the Israeli resort of Eilat during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the international pageant.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today, warning that the variant now accounted for 40% of infections in the British capital.

(JOHANNESBURG Reuters) – South Africa’s 69-year-old President Cyril Ramaphosa tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, though is showing only mild symptoms, the presidency said.

(LIVERPOOL, England Reuters) – Russia faces massive consequences and severe costs if President Vladimir Putin attacks Ukraine, the Group of Seven warned in a statement on Sunday.

(Reuters) – The United States yesterday reached 800,000 coronavirus-related deaths, according to a Reuters tally, as the nation braces for a potential surge in infections due to more time spent indoors with colder weather and the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus.

(WASHINGTON Reuters) – A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S.

(Reuters) – The United States yesterday reached 800,000 coronavirus-related deaths, according to a Reuters tally, as the nation braces for a potential surge in infections due to more time spent indoors with colder weather and the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus.

MAYFIELD, Ky., (Reuters) – At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S.