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SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rican police yesterday seized 4.3 tons of cocaine originating in Colombia, the Central American nation’s second-largest drug bust ever and the biggest this year, local authorities said on Sunday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Martine Moise, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president Jovenel Moise, returned to the Caribbean nation yesterday for his funeral after she was treated in a Miami hospital for injuries sustained during the July 7 attack at their private residence.

MOSCOW/DUBAI/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ ministers agreed today to boost oil supply from August to cool prices which have climbed to 2-1/2 year highs as the global economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday vowed to preserve a programme that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children, promising to appeal a judge’s “deeply disappointing” ruling invalidating it and urging Congress to provide them a path to citizenship.

PARIS, (Reuters) – More than a hundred thousand people marched across France yesterday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to force vaccination of health workers and require a COVID-19 free certificate to enter places such as restaurants and cinemas.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Raul Castro was among thousands who attended a government-organized rally in Havana yesterday to denounce the U.S.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin in June offered U.S. counterpart Joe Biden the use of Russian military bases in Central Asia for information gathering from Afghanistan, the Kommersant newspaper reported yesterday, as American troops leave the country.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria is working with the U.S. authorities to get to the bottom of a reported spate of suspected cases of an ailment known as “Havana syndrome” among U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Every adult in the United Kingdom has been offered a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said yesterday, ahead of the end of legal restrictions in England on Monday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Former Haitian justice ministry official Joseph Felix Badio may have ordered the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, a Colombian police chief said yesterday, citing a preliminary investigation into the murder.

ABUJA/LAGOS, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s parliament yesterday cleared a historic petroleum overhaul that seeks to attract waning investment to its ageing oil sector and sent the measure to the president for signature.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov and his former wife Tatiana Akhmedova reached a settlement yesterday after years of legal wrangling over a record 454 million pound ($625 million) divorce award made by London’s High Court in 2016.

(Reuters) – Cuban-born pop star Gloria Estefan yesterday urged the United Nations to condemn the Communist government in Havana for its suppression of mass protests.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, undergoing hospital treatment for an obstructed intestine after a near-fatal 2018 stabbing, said yesterday he hoped to be “back in action soon,” while doctors gave no date for him to be discharged.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska,  (Reuters) – Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less rare with global warming.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canada may permit fully vaccinated travellers into the country by early September, the country’s prime minister said yesterday, if the current trend in vaccination rate and public health conditions continue.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday the United States is prepared to send vaccines to Cuba if it is assured an international organization would administer them but he is not considering easing U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel failed yesterday to settle their dispute over Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline but said they agreed that Moscow must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon to coerce its neighbors.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri abandoned his months-long effort to form a new government yesterday, dimming the chances of a cabinet being agreed any time soon that could start rescuing the country from financial meltdown.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday his condition had improved, making him less likely to face surgery for an obstructed intestine linked to a 2018 stabbing, and that he might leave the hospital on Friday.