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 (Reuters) – United Airlines Inc today  became the first U.S. airline to require all its domestic employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Taliban fighters today assassinated the Afghanistan government’s top media and information officer in the capital Kabul, an act condemned by the senior U.S.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s embassy in the Dominican Republic said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden took a step toward his goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions yesterday with an executive order aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric, a move made with backing from the biggest U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Atlantic Ocean’s current system, an engine of the Northern Hemsiphere’s climate, could be weakening to such an extent that it could soon bring big changes to the world’s weather, a scientific study said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday offered temporary “safe haven” to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing what could be thousands of people to extend their stay in response to Beijing’s crackdown on democracy in the Chinese territory.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of business leaders representing large Brazilian banks and other companies yesterday published a letter titled “Elections will be respected,” in an apparent rebuke of President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent threats against the 2022 elections.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico will host talks between the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the political opposition, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters today, the first time a Mexican official has confirmed the negotiations.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping today said China will strive to provide 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to other countries in 2021, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department is looking into the whereabouts of a $5,800 bottle of whisky given to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the Japanese government, a U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Delays in international deliveries of the second dose of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will be fully resolved this month, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), responsible for the shot’s marketing abroad, said in a statement yesterday.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A controversial prosecutor in Guatemala has been tapped to replace an internationally renowned graft-fighter who until recently led the country’s anti-corruption unit, Guatemalan authorities said on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – Nicaraguan authorities have detained a former beauty queen bidding to contest the November presidential elections, her party said, as the government of President Daniel Ortega shows no sign of ending a crackdown against the opposition.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s government is drawing up a constitutional amendment to create a fund from privatizations and state asset sales to pay down debt, meet court-ordered payment obligations and help the country’s poorest people, a government source said yesterday.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday sanctioned two lawyers who brought a lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and his supporters, calling their case “one enormous conspiracy theory.”

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India is sending a naval task force to the South China Sea this month to expand security ties with friendly countries, officials said yesterday, signalling its intent to play a bigger role in regional efforts to counter China.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesia recorded a grim milestone of more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 today, data from the country’s health ministry showed, with the Southeast Asian nation recently accounting for one in five fatalities globally.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will require thousands of border agents to wear body cameras, according to two officials and government documents, a major operational change that could increase oversight of agents and also help capture criminal activity.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo groped, kissed or made suggestive comments to 11 women in violation of the law, the state’s attorney general said yesterday, prompting local prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation and reigniting calls for him to resign or be impeached.

DUBAI/LONDON, (Reuters) – Iranian-backed forces are believed to have seized an oil tanker in the Gulf off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, three maritime security sources said, after Britain’s maritime trade agency reported a “potential hijack” in the area yesterday.