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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in the United States have risen by more than 20 percentage points after multiple institutions adopted vaccine requirements, while case numbers and deaths from the virus are down, Biden administration officials said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday urged the private sector to help ease supply chain blockages that are threatening to disrupt the U.S.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The top Honduran opposition parties yesterday united behind Xiomara Castro as their candidate for a November presidential election, giving the wife of a leftist former president who was ousted in a coup a stronger chance of ousting the ruling party.

(Reuters) – The United States plans to hold up to seven offshore wind auctions in the next four years and will extend its ambitions to areas that have yet to be developed such as off the coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico, a Biden administration official said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said today the Emergency Use Listing process for Russia’s Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine was on hold pending some missing data and legal procedures, which the U.N.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Researchers in the Netherlands are developing laser technology to enable “virtually painless” injections without needles in what they call a breakthrough that will ease fear and lower the threshold for vaccinations.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged since Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took office – and the losses amount to a crime against humanity as climate change strengthens, an environmental non-profit charged yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval yesterday to legislation temporarily raising the government’s borrowing limit to $28.9 trillion, pushing off the deadline for debt default only until December.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday denied government opponents permission to stage what they said would be a peaceful march for civil liberties in the capital Havana and a few other provinces on grounds it was part of efforts to overthrow the government, according to a letter handed to organizers.

(Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday that the European explorers who first landed on U.S.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Protesters in Guatemala tried to topple a Christopher Columbus statue yesterday amid protests against the treatment of indigenous people by European conquerors, the latest effort in a global movement to re-examine symbols of the colonial era.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will open its border with Canada to vaccinated Canadians starting in early November, three U.S.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Rebuffing the Texas governor, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines said yesterday they would comply with U.S.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The top U.N. top court ruled yesterday largely in favour of Somalia in its dispute with Kenya, setting a sea boundary in part of the Indian Ocean believed to be rich in oil and gas.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The top U.N. top court ruled today largely in favour of Somalia in its dispute with Kenya, setting a sea boundary in part of the Indian Ocean believed to be rich in oil and gas.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia reported 973 coronavirus-related deaths today, its highest single-day toll since the start of the pandemic, and the government voiced concern at the pace and intensity of new infections.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s executive board yesterday expressed its full confidence in Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva after reviewing allegations that she pressured World Bank staff to alter data to favor China.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. shares fell yesterday, having whip-sawed between gains and losses as soaring oil prices that hit multi-year peaks stoked fears about rising prices and tighter monetary policy, lifting the dollar to a near-three-year high against the yen.

(Reuters) – Chevron Corp yesterday set a target to cut operational emissions to net zero by 2050, joining a list of energy companies taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday that well-known foreign companies had engaged in what he described as fuel smuggling and he named global energy trader Trafigura as an example of the practice.