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SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador has bought its first 200 bitcoins, President Nayib Bukele said yesterday, an announcement that sent the price of the cryptocurrency rising one day before the country formally adopts it as legal tender alongside the U.S.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden declared that a major disaster exists in New Jersey, days after Hurricane Ida caused intense flooding that killed dozens in the U.S.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said today it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S.

CONAKRY,  (Reuters) – Special forces soldiers appeared yesterday to have ousted Guinea’s long-serving president, telling the nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Ida’s death toll continued to rise yesterday, with many in the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives Republican said his party does not deserve to win majorities in congressional elections next year if it pushes lies and conspiracy theories, saying that it “desperately needs to tell the truth.”

MUZAFFARNAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of farmers gathered in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh today, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press Narendra Modi’s government to repeal three new agricultural laws.

(Reuters) – Taliban and opposition forces battled yesterday to control the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding out against the militant group, as the top U.S.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s top court has ruled that the country’s president can serve two consecutive terms, opening the door for incumbent Nayib Bukele to stand for re-election in 2024.

PODGORICA,  (Reuters) – Several thousand protesters used tyres, rocks and vehicles to block roads leading to the city of Cetinje in southwest Montenegro yesterday in a bid to stop the Serbian Orthodox Church holding an enthronement ceremony for its new top cleric.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged major powers to “show responsibility” and play a leading role in improving global environmental governance and addressing such challenges as climate change.

(Cleveland Clinic) – Researchers have engineered a first-of-its-kind bionic arm for patients with upper-limb amputations that allows wearers to think, behave and function like a person without an amputation, according to new findings published in Science Robotics.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19.

(SciDev.Net) – The worldwide loss of bees and other pollinators is driven primarily by changes in land use, land management and pesti-cide application, espe-cially in the global South, according to a global assessment.

 (Reuters) – Taliban and opposition forces were fighting on Saturday for control of the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last province in Afghanistan holding out against the Islamist group, according to reports.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – During a 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Donald Trump made a statement that seemed brash at the time: If he were elected and got the chance to nominate justices to the U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – The Federated States of Micronesia will tap a U.S.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – New Zea-land police yesterday shot and killed a knife-wielding “extremist” who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move yesterday he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure marred by an unpopular COVID-19 response and sinking public support.

LABREA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Thick smoke billowed above Brazil’s Amazon jungle as fire tore through butchered rainforest and discarded trees littered the scorched earth like dead matchsticks, burnt and black.