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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists whose work has angered the rulers of the Philippines and Russia, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, an award the committee said was an endorsement of free speech rights under threat worldwide.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia has repeatedly delayed inspections by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) necessary for the certification of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in the European Union, the EU’s ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate yesterday approved legislation to temporarily raise the federal government’s $28.4 trillion debt limit and avoid the risk of a historic default this month, but it put off until early December a decision on a longer-lasting remedy.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain will scrap tough COVID-19 quarantine requirements for 47 destinations including Guyana, South Africa and Thailand on Monday and make it easier for people to arrive from countries including India and Turkey in the latest relaxation of the rules.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday said more U.S.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee,” the award-giving body said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – NatWest pleaded guilty today to failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds ($544 million) and faces a heavy fine after becoming the first bank in Britain to admit to a criminal offence of this sort.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the toughest such law in the United States, in a challenge brought by President Joe Biden’s administration after the U.S.

(Reuters) – Democratic members of Congress from California seized on the oil spill off the state’s coast to call for investigations into why it took several hours before a pipeline operator reported the spill to federal authorities – and the subsequent lag before the public was notified of the danger of the spill.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate appeared near to a temporary deal to avert a federal debt default in the next two weeks, after Democrats said on Wednesday they might accept a Republican proposal to defuse the partisan standoff that threatens the broader economy.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada will place unvaccinated federal employees on unpaid leave and require COVID-19 shots for air, train and ship passengers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday, as he unveiled one of the world’s strictest vaccine mandate policies.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook yesterday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children’s mental health and stokes divisions.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for work that helps understand complex physical systems such as Earth’s changing climate.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., (Reuters) – A section of the oil pipeline that burst off the Southern California coast was displaced 105 feet (32 meters) across the ocean floor, officials said yesterday, fueling speculation that a ship’s anchor may have caused the environmental disaster.

CROZIER, La., (Reuters) – Bruce Westley stood outside his wrecked mobile home, pointing to a small lime green tent, two patio chairs and a 30-quart aluminum pot atop a single propane burner.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court ordered state authorities to pay $672 (50,000 rupees) as compensation for each death caused by COVID-19, as a way to help families cope with the loss, according to its order reviewed by Reuters today.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan falling to China would trigger “catastrophic” consequences for peace in Asia, President Tsai Ing-wen wrote in a piece for Foreign Affairs published today, and if threatened Taiwan will do whatever it takes to defend itself.

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage yesterday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.,  (Reuters) – More oil from a massive offshore spill landed on the southern California shore yesterday, with beaches closed and dead fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline could have triggered the leak.