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NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two men who spent decades in prison for murdering Black activist and civil rights advocate Malcolm X in 1965 were exonerated yesterday by a New York state judge, after the Manhattan district attorney said evidence had been withheld in the case and apologized for “violations of law and public trust.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – With over $66 billion in total capital, China has passed Japan to become the second largest contributor to the system of development banks that provide some $200 billion in subsidized loans to poor countries each year, a new report said Thursday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s economy is on the path to grow more than 9% this year, as the economy reopens amid coronavirus vaccinations, President Ivan Duque said yesterday.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines today condemned “in strongest terms” the actions of three Chinese coast guard vessels that it said blocked and used water cannon on resupply boats headed towards a Philippine-occupied atoll in the South China Sea.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday sentenced the U.S. Capitol rioter known as the “QAnon Shaman” for his horned headdress to 41 months in prison for his role in the deadly Jan.

(Reuters) – Atmospheric rivers of the sort causing massive floods and mudslides in Canada’s British Columbia are akin to a river in the sky, weather systems that carry up to 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River, according to the NASA Earth Observatory.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration has asked some of the world’s largest oil consuming nations to consider releasing some of their crude reserves in a coordinated effort to lower prices and stimulate the economic recovery, according to several people familiar with the matter.

SINANGOE,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s constitutional court judges traveled to the heart of the Amazon to hear indigenous communities defend their right to oppose mining projects in their territories during a historic hearing in the jungle.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s vaccine mandate for members of parliament is helping Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exploit divisions in the opposition Conservative Party, some of whose lawmakers will be shut out when the House of Commons reconvenes next week.

ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have arrested a man considered a suspect of “great interest” in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Claude Joseph said late on Monday.

LAGOS,  (Reuters) – The Nigerian Army fired live rounds at peaceful protesters at a toll gate in Lagos in October 2020, according to a leaked report into the incident seen by Reuters and verified by three sources close to the panel that drafted it.

(Reuters) – Pfizer Inc said today it will allow generic manufacturers to supply its experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill to 95 low- and middle-income countries through a licensing agreement with international public health group Medicines Patent Pool (MPP).

 (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc said today it will allow generic manufacturers to supply its experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill to 95 low- and middle-income countries through a licensing agreement with international public health group Medicines Patent Pool (MPP).

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed their responsibility to the rest of the world to avoid conflict as the heads of the two top global economies opened their closely watched talks yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden signed into law a $1 trillion infrastructure bill at a White House ceremony yesterday that drew Democrats and Republicans who pushed the legislation through a deeply divided U.S.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Huge rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia yesterday, triggering landslides, shutting roads, prompting the evacuation of an entire town and forcing an oil pipeline to close.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – An initial shipment from a storage and regasification vessel arrived in El Salvador yesterday to supply a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant that will provide 30% of the Central American country’s energy, President Nayib Bukele said.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – With planned emissions cuts still far smaller than needed to prevent runaway climate change, turning the promises made at the just-ended Glasgow summit into real-world investment within a year will be the mark of its success, analysts said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell said yesterday it would scrap its dual share structure and move its head office to Britain from the Netherlands, pushed away by Dutch taxes and facing climate pressure in court as the energy giant shifts from oil and gas.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s highest court yesterday ruled it was not competent to try former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon over the alleged misappropriation of $200 million in government funds meant for an agriculture project.