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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Accounting and consulting firm PwC told Reuters yesterday it will allow all its 40,000 U.S.

NOTRE DAME, Indiana,  (Reuters) – Conservative Justice Samuel Alito yesterday defended the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s agenda faced a key test  among fellow Democrats as the House of Representatives prepared a vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that progressives have threatened to block unless there is also a deal on a larger social spending plan.

BRIGHTON, England,  (Reuters) – British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer promised on Wednesday to win back voters lost to Prime Minister Boris Johnson by prioritising key workers and balancing the books, a break with leftist supporters who heckled him during a conference speech.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – About 1,900 fighters belonging to Colombian rebel and crime groups are operating from Venezuela, where they plan attacks and participate in drug trafficking, the commander of Colombia’s armed forces said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British police officer was sentenced to life in prison without parole today for the murder of Sarah Everard as she walked home in the evening after visiting friends in south London, a case which stirred protests over male violence towards women.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The conservatorship that has controlled the life of Britney Spears for 13 years neared a possible end on Wednesday after a judge suspended her father, and the pop super-star said later that she was “on cloud 9 right now.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s agenda was at risk of being derailed by divisions among his own Democrats, as moderates voiced anger yesterday at the idea of delaying a $1 trillion infrastructure bill ahead of a critical vote to avert a government shutdown.

(Reuters) – The ivory-billed woodpecker, whose last confirmed sighting was nearly 80 years ago, is one of 23 federally protected species that would be officially declared extinct – the most ever at one time – under a U.S.

JABER CROSSING, Jordan,  (Reuters) – Jordan fully reopened its main border crossing with Syria yesterday in a move to boost the countries’ struggling economies and reinforce a push by Arab states to reintegrate Syria after shunning it during its civil war.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated 74% efficacy at preventing symptomatic disease, a figure that increased to 83.5% in people aged 65 and older, according to long-awaited results of the company’s U.S.

CANBERRA,  (Reuters) – Queensland, Australia’s third most populous state, said yesterday it has given ownership of the world’s oldest tropical rainforest to a local Indigenous group.

LUSAKA,  (Reuters) – The state-appointed provisional liquidator of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), Milingo Lungu, has been arrested and charged with laundering more than $2 million, Zambia’s Drug Enforcement Commission, which also handles money-laundering cases, said today.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Some of India’s private hospitals have cancelled orders for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine as they struggle to sell COVID-19 shots amid surging supplies of free doses of other vaccines offered by the government.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fended off perhaps the most personal and direct attacks from lawmakers of his career yesterday as Republicans blasted his calls with China and his interviews for books critical of Donald Trump’s presidency.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators said yesterday a Facebook Inc whistleblower will testify at a Senate hearing next week about what one of them called the social media company’s “toxic effects” on young users.

(Reuters) – Enbridge Inc said yesterday it had signed low carbon infrastructure partnerships with Royal Dutch Shell and Vanguard Renewables, as the Canadian pipeline operator pushes ahead with its emission reduction goals.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans for a second day in a row blocked a bid by President Joe Biden’s Democrats to head off a potentially crippling U.S.

LA PALMA, Spain,  (Reuters) – Red hot lava from a volcano that devastated the Spanish island of La Palma reached the Atlantic Ocean late last evening, nine days after it started to flow down the mountain, wrecking buildings and destroying crops.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A sharply divided U.S. Senate failed yesterday to advance a measure to suspend the federal debt ceiling and avoid a partial government shutdown, as Republican lawmakers denied the bill the votes necessary to move forward.