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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury yesterday in his sex trafficking trial, where prosecutors accused the R&B singer of exploiting his stardom over a quarter-century to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday said he would grant “unconditional release” to John Hinckley, who wounded former U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York hospitals yesterday began firing or suspending healthcare workers for defying a state order to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and resulting staff shortages prompted some hospitals to postpone elective surgeries or curtail services.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Netherlands has sharply boosted security around Prime Minister Mark Rutte after police received signals of a possible attack by criminals linked to the drug trade, a Dutch newspaper reported today, citing sources familiar with the matter.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Up to 90% of British fuel stations ran dry across major English cities today after panic buying deepened a supply chain crisis triggered by a shortage of truckers that retailers are warning could batter the world’s fifth-largest economy.

(Reuters) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering employing the National Guard and out-of-state medical workers to fill hospital staffing shortages with tens of thousands of workers possibly losing their jobs for not meeting a Monday deadline for mandated COVID-19 vaccination.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Demo-crats narrowly won yesterday’s national election, projected results showed, and claimed a “clear mandate” to lead a government for the first time since 2005 and to end 16 years of conservative-led rule under Angela Merkel.

ROME, (Reuters) – The tiny republic of San Marino has voted overwhelmingly in favour of legalising abortion in a referendum, overturning a law dating back to 1865, official results showed yesterday.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Switzerland agreed to legalise civil marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex couples by a nearly two-thirds majority in a referendum yesterday, making it one of the last countries in Western Europe to legalise gay marriage.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germany’s CDU/CSU conservatives and their Social Democrat rivals were virtually tied in today’s national election, exit polls showed, leaving open which of them will lead the next government as Angela Merkel prepares to stand down after 16 years in power.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia vowed on Friday to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region “undaunted by coercion” at their first in-person summit, which presented a united front amid shared concerns about China.

BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – A former Rwandan army colonel who was accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800,000 people during the 1994 genocide has died in prison in Mali, Malian officials said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said yesterday the release of Huawei’s finance chief raised serious questions about President Joe Biden’s ability to confront the threat posed by the technology giant and the Chinese Communist Party.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germans vote in a national election today that looks too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Mali has asked a private Russian military company to help it fight against insurgents, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday at the United Nations.

(Reuters) – Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou flew home to China yesterday after reaching an agreement with U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday that millions of federal contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden in Arizona’s most populous county, a review of results by his allies in the Republican Party has reaffirmed, capping a widely panned effort spurred by Trump’s false claims of voter fraud.

DEL RIO, Texas, (Reuters) – An impromptu border camp that roiled the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva criticized as “false and spurious” the findings of an independent probe into allegations that as World Bank head she pressured staff to manipulate data to make China’s business climate appear more favourable.