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(Reuters) – A partisan review of the 2020 presidential election commissioned by Arizona Republicans has confirmed President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the state’s most populous county, according to a draft report of the review’s findings.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Three people were killed in a suspected gangland shooting inside a Delhi courtroom today, police said, causing panic in the premises.

CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest in a letter that blasted the Biden administration for deporting hundreds of migrants back to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a camp on the U.S.-Mexican

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A former World Bank official who prepared reports at the centre of a data-rigging scandal that aided China defended IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva yesterday as the Economist magazine called for her to resign over her alleged role in the controversy.

(Reuters) – A World Health Organization (WHO) panel on Friday recommended the use of Regeneron and Roche’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail for patients at high risk of hospitalisations and those severely ill with no natural antibodies.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia yesterday reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time high set on Aug.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Portugal will lift almost all remaining COVID-19 restrictions, allowing full occupancy in restaurants and cultural venues from Oct.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia today reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time high set on Aug.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. special envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, has resigned, a senior State Department official said today, amid mass deportations of Haitians who fled recent political turmoil and natural disasters at home.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday promised to buy 500 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of Polynesia, the planet’s last habitable region to be settled by people.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale SA has given up all rights to mining prospects on indigenous lands in Brazil, recognizing that they require the consent of the communities and legislation regulating such activity, the company said on Wednesday.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Clerics from Egypt’s ancient seat of Sunni study Al-Azhar, who spent years teaching in Afghanistan and were planning to open an education centre for girls, hope their tolerant message of Islam will survive the return of the Taliban.

WINDHOEK,  (Reuters) – During a heated parliamentary debate, Namibian opposition lawmakers yesterday criticised a 1.1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) compensation offer from Germany for its 1904-1908 genocide in the southwest African country and called on the government to renegotiate terms.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is giving $247 million in humanitarian aid and $89 million in economic and development aid to Venezuelans, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement on Wednesday.

LA PALMA, Spain, (Reuters) – Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day today, blanketing houses and fields, a day after people with homes on the path of the molten rock were allowed back briefly to recover belongings.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping said yesterday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to fund the U.S.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden mapped out a new era of vigorous competition without a new Cold War despite China’s ascendance during his first United Nations address yesterday, promising military restraint and a robust fight against climate change.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said its executive board yesterday to discuss a report prepared for the World Bank alleging that IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to alter data to favor China while serving as the bank’s CEO.