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 (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said today  he was expanding the city’s vaccine mandate to include all public employees, requiring them to show proof of inoculation against COVID-19 or be placed on unpaid leave.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – FBI agents yesterday raided Washington and New York City homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire under U.S.

WASHINGTON/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Credit Suisse Group AG will pay about $475 million to American and British authorities to resolve bribery and fraud charges relating to a $2 billion Mozambican corruption scandal, while its subsidiary pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in New York, U.S.

(Reuters) – A Haitian gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries is asking for $17 million – or $1 million each – to release them, according to a top Haitian official.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The senator leading a congressional probe into Brazil’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with homicide for alleged government errors that led to the deaths of thousands.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia today proposed to shut workplaces for a week at the start of November as its daily COVID-19 death toll hit a new record and a sharp rise in cases continued, leading to fresh calls from the Kremlin for people to get vaccinated.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today set out his ambition on Tuesday for a green revolution that would force Western economies to kick their centuries old addiction to fossil fuels.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Members of a group involved in killing Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July had conspired to assassinate Bolivian President Luis Arce in 2020, Bolivia’s interior minister said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state, a top military officer and a national security adviser, died yesterday at age 84 due to complications from COVID-19.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries pulled its American staff out of the country for nine months because of political unrest before returning them last year, according to the group’s 2020 annual report.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon yesterday sued the government to halt plans by President Guillermo Lasso to increase oil development in the country, calling the expansion efforts a “policy of death.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 due to complications from COVID-19.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A U.S. Christian aid organization yesterday said a group of its missionaries had been kidnapped in Haiti, a further sign the Caribbean nation’s gangs are growing increasingly brazen amid political and economic crises.

CARACAS/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The chair of the Venezuelan opposition’s negotiating team at talks with the government urged President Nicolas Maduro’s administration yesterday to resume dialogue as soon as possible, after the government suspended its participation this weekend.

NAIROBI/LONDON, (Reuters) – Ali Harbi Ali, the son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia, has been arrested by British police under anti-terrorism laws following the killing of lawmaker David Amess, a source close to the investigation and British media said.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – Thousands of people in El Salvador took to the streets yesterday to air a range of complaints against President Nayib Bukele, from adopting bitcoin as legal tender to firing Supreme Court judges, viewed by critics as a power grab.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Russian actor and a film director making the first move film in space returned to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS).

(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a container ship on Saturday in the Port of Long Beach that dragged its anchor close to a subsea pipeline found to be the source of an oil spill off Orange County, California, it said in a press release.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 17 (Reuters) – As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped yesterday  by gang members in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, U.S.

CARACAS/PRAIA, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend, after Cape Verde extradited Colombian businessman Alex Saab to the United States on money laundering charges.