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LONDON, (Reuters) – The British government apologised yesterday for its botched attempt to protect a ruling party lawmaker by changing rules designed to prevent corruption in parliament, a debacle in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s integrity has been questioned.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States plans to invest in five to 10 large infrastructure projects around the world in January as part of a broader Group of Seven initiative to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a senior U.S.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Portuguese police have clamped down on a crime ring that allegedly involved the country’s U.N.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Houston’s police chief said yesterday he met briefly with hip-hop star Travis Scott to voice his “public safety concerns” before the rapper took the stage for a weekend performance that ended with eight people killed and dozens more injured in a stampede.

NIAMEY, (Reuters) – At least 25 primary school children were killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger on Monday, the council of ministers said in a statement.

GLASGOW, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Small island nations such as Jamaica and Dominica, like many others in the Caribbean, are battered regularly by tropical storms that are getting fiercer as the ocean warms, threatening to wreck homes, energy grids, hospitals, roads and ports.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Daniel Ortega easily secured a fourth consecutive term as Nicaragua’s president, early results showed today, after the former guerrilla fighter suppressed political rivals in a vote critics said was rigged but which won Russian recognition.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children’s agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan today, the first nationwide campaign to fight the disease in three years.

GLASGOW, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Negotiations on rules for global carbon markets at the COP26 U.N.

(Reuters) – The United States is expecting a flood of international visitors crossing its borders by air and by land on today after lifting travel restrictions for much of the world’s population first imposed in early 2020 to address the spread of COVID-19.

(Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed from an armed drone assassination attempt in Baghdad, officials said on Sunday, in an incident that raised tension in Iraq weeks after a general election disputed by Iran-backed militia groups.

(Reuters) – Sudanese pro-democracy groups launched two days of civil disobedience and strikes on Sunday in protest against last month’s military coup, though participation appeared to be limited by interruptions to internet and phone connections.

GLASGOW, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Negotiations on rules for global carbon markets at the COP26 U.N.

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said.

(Reuters) – A drone laden with explosives targeted the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Baghdad early on Sunday in what the Iraqi military called an attempted assassination, but said Kadhimi escaped unhurt.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvement, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign into law.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court issued a stay Saturday freezing the Biden administration’s efforts to require workers at U.S.

(Reuters) – Pfizer Inc’s (PFE.N) experimental antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 cut by 89% the chances of hospitalization or death for adults at risk of severe disease, the company said on Friday, as its CEO vowed to make this promising new weapon in the fight against the pandemic available globally as quickly as possible.

(Reuters) – The death of a pregnant Polish woman has reignited debate over abortion in one of Europe’s most devoutly Catholic countries, with activists saying she could still be alive if it were not for a near total ban on terminating pregnancies.