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SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele yesterday deployed the military to patrol streets throughout the country in response to a surge in murders this week.

FREETOWN,  (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s chief auditor Lara Taylor-Pearce, who has been widely praised for her efforts to improve government accountability, said yesterday President Julius Maada Bio had suspended her while the attorney general investigates her office.

GLASGOW,  (Reuters) – A fledgling international alliance to halt new oil and gas drilling added six members yesterday during the U.N.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s last white president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who negotiated a peaceful transfer of power to a Black-led government under Nelson Mandela, died today aged 85 after a battle with cancer, his foundation said.

GLASGOW,  (Reuters) – The United States and China, the world’s two largest emitters of carbon dioxide, unveiled a deal to ramp up cooperation tackling climate change, including by cutting methane emissions, phasing out coal consumption and protecting forests.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he did not believe Britain was a corrupt country, as parliament was embroiled in a growing scandal over lawmakers being paid for external work which may have breached its rules.

YENAGOA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Aiteo Eastern E&P has reported an “extremely high order” oil spill from a jointly owned well in the Niger Delta and has had to abort immediate efforts to control the leak due to the pressure emanating from the well head.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Sergio Moro, who became a household name in Brazil as the judge that led the country’s largest ever corruption probe, re-entered the political fray yesterday, presenting himself as a unifying centrist ahead of presidential elections next year.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Restau-rateurs Melanie Angulo and Marwin Hernandez have begun serving lattes and specialty coffee in a small storefront in downtown Caracas, joining a new wave of cafe entrepreneurs encouraged by creeping dollarization in Venezuela.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Existing systems for tracking the sovereign debts of the poorest countries are inadequate and mask hidden debts, and they are likely to owe far more than the record levels currently estimated, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament was embroiled in a growing sleaze scandal tpday as allegations of lawmakers being paid for external work which may have breached parliamentary rules dominated the headlines.

GLASGOW,  (Reuters) – Six major automakers will today commit to phasing out the production of fossil-fuel vehicles around the world by 2040, as part of global efforts to cut carbon emissions, the British government said in a statement.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A virtual meeting planned between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be held as soon as next week, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will continue a Trump-era ban on U.S.

HANOI, (Reuters) – Facebook’s parent company said yesterday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce’s nickname ‘#saltbae’, having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Viet-namese Communist Party official in London.

GLASGOW, Scotland,  (Reuters) – The president of the U.N. climate talks said yesterday there was still a mountain to climb towards a goal of capping the global temperature rise at 1.5 Celsius, as a re-search group said existing pledges would allow the Earth to warm far beyond that.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – A few hundred meters from the huge furnaces of the Chinese-owned Smedrevo steel mill in central Serbia, the village of Radinac is covered in thick red dust.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – A few hundred meters from the huge furnaces of the Chinese-owned Smedrevo steel mill in central Serbia, the village of Radinac is covered in thick red dust.

HANOI, (Reuters) – Facebook’s parent company said on Tuesday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce’s nickname ‘#saltbae’, having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London.