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LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ said yesterday it would stick to an existing pact for a gradual increase in oil output, sending crude prices to three-year highs and adding to inflationary pressures that consuming nations fear will derail an economic recovery from the pandemic.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean police have dismantled a crime ring that helped smuggle hundreds of children of Haitian migrants, sometimes without their parents, from Chile north to Mexico and the United States, Interpol said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet late this afternoon Eastern time, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Demand for coal and natural gas has exceeded pre-COVID-19 highs with oil not far behind, dealing a setback to hopes the pandemic would spur a faster transition to clean energy from fossil fuels.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., (Reuters) – A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, prompting local officials to call it an environmental catastrophe.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations yesterday that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The two Koreas yesterday restored their hotlines that the North severed months ago, with Pyongyang urging Seoul to step up efforts to improve relations after criticising what it called double standards over weapons development.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The French Catholic Church has had an estimated 3,000 paedophiles in its ranks over the past 70 years, the head of an independent commission investigating the sex abuse scandal said in an interview published today.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – All the barriers to register Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine with the World Health Organization (WHO) have been cleared and only some paperwork remains to be completed, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said yesterday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A huge fire destroyed or damaged more than 200 houses and businesses on the Honduran island of Guanaja on yesterday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee for safety and ravaging the tourism-dependent resort, relief authorities said.

(Reuters) – Bangladesh’s foreign minister vowed “stern action” yesterday against the killers of Rohingya refugee leader Mohib Ullah as calls grew to investigate his shooting.

WASHINGTON/AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – Women marched by the thousands yesterday on the Supreme Court, the Texas Capitol and cities across the United States to protest increasing state restrictions on abortion and advocate for maintaining a constitutional right to the procedure.

(Reuters) – An experimental antiviral pill developed by Merck & Co could halve the chances of dying or being hospitalized for those most at risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to data that experts hailed as a potential breakthrough in how the virus is treated.

(Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor yesterday refused to block New York City’s requirement that its public school teachers and employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In a rare visit to the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden tried yesterday to end a fight between the moderate and progressive wings of his Democratic Party that threatened to torpedo his domestic agenda.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The United Nations does not accept Ethiopia’s decision to expel seven senior U.N.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Western fossil fuel companies looking to develop deposits in Africa need to consider significant risk of regulatory action as on other continents as the world moves to try to tackle climate change, a U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – UK nationals visiting India this month will have to undergo mandatory quarantine even if they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in retaliation for UK curbs on Indian citizens, a senior government source in New Delhi said on Friday.