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TAPACHULA, Mexico, (Reuters) – Several thousand Haitian migrants have camped outside a stadium in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, pleading to be transferred to other states and given authorization to travel freely through Mexico and seek employment.

JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Heavily mutated Omicron is rapidly becoming the dominant variant of the coronavirus in South Africa less than four weeks after it was first detected there, and the United States yesterday became the latest country to identify an Omicron case within its borders.

(Reuters) – A Michigan teenager was ordered held without bond on Wednesday after being charged with first-degree murder in the deadliest U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Mexican government has agreed to increase the daily minimum wage next year by 22%, Mexican industry associations said yesterday, marking another step by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to combat the country’s vast wealth disparity.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament convened a special committee today to investigate dozens of unexplained cooking gas explosions and fires in kitchens around the country.

SYDNEY/TOKYO, (Reuters) – Air travellers to the United States will face tougher COVID-19 testing rules as several countries moved to seal-off their borders amid growing uncertainty around the virulence of the Omicron variant and its ability to dodge existing vaccines.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – CNN yesterday suspended its top news anchor, Chris Cuomo, for his role in defending his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, over sexual harassment allegations.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduras’ conservative ruling party candidate late on Tuesday conceded defeat in the presidential election, paving the way for his leftist rival Xiomara Castro to become the first female leader of the struggling Central American country.

(Reuters) – A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow high school students and wounded eight other people after opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a Michigan high school, and was quickly arrested, police said.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada, seeking to halt the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, will require people arriving by air from all nations except the United States to take a COVID-19 test, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow high school students and wounded eight other people upon opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a Michigan high school, and he was quickly taken into custody, police said.

FRANKFURT/BERLIN, (Reuters) – The chief executive of drugmaker Moderna set off fresh alarm bells in financial markets today with a warning that existing COVID-19 vaccines would be less effective against the new Omicron variant than they have been against Delta.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras’ leftist politician Xiomara Castro, who is on track to be the first female president of the Central American nation, doesn’t shy away from making history.

GABORONE, (Reuters) – Botswana’s Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, a decision hailed by gay community as establishing the southern African country as a “true democracy”.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – EU, Iranian and Russian diplomats sounded upbeat as Iran and world powers held their first talks in five months yesterday to try to save their 2015 nuclear deal, despite Tehran taking a tough stance in public that Western powers said would not work.

(Reuters) – Pennsylvania prosecutors yesterday said they have asked the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The chief of Britain’s foreign spy service warned yesterday that the West’s adversaries such as China and Russia were racing to master artificial intelligence in a way which could revolutionise geo-politics over the next decade.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The French government will send police reinforcements, including an elite SWAT team, and extend a curfew in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe after two weeks of unrest, the overseas territories minister said yesterday.

DAKAR/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China will deliver another 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa and encourage Chinese companies to invest no less than $10 billion in the continent over the next three years, President Xi Jinping said yesterday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Military and police authorities from more than 40 countries across Europe and the Americas confiscated 145.3 tonnes of cocaine in the eighth phase of Operation Orion, a multinational naval operation against drug trafficking, Colombia’s navy said yesterday.