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PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday appeared to rule out the possibility of sending U.S.

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling five Neutrogena and Aveeno brand aerosol sunscreen products after detecting a cancer-causing chemical in some samples.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Former Indonesian maritime affairs and fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo was sentenced by a court today to five years in prison for accepting bribes in a corruption scandal involving the export of lobster larvae.

SAO PAULO/BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – More than 10,000 species of plants and animals are at high risk of extinction due to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest – 35% of which has already been deforested or degraded, according to the draft of a landmark scientific report published yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Scattered protests broke out in Haiti’s capital yesterday as gasoline shortages added to concerns over insecurity and police announced new arrests a week after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise pitched the already-troubled Caribbean nation into political chaos.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to a Sao Paulo hospital yesterday to undergo tests for an obstructed intestine, with the president’s office saying he could receive emergency surgery in his latest health complication from a 2018 stabbing.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Authorities in Colombia, working alongside counterparts in Panama and the United States, have seized 5.4 tonnes of cocaine worth $185 million, the Andean country’s navy said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba announced yetserday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on the amount of food and medicine travelers could bring into the country in an apparent small concession to demands by protesters who took to the street last weekend.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Crowds looted shops and offices in South Africa today, defying government calls to end a week of violence that has killed more than 70 people and wrecked hundreds of businesses.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Taliban fighters in Afghanistan said today they had taken control of one of the main border crossings with Pakistan, perhaps the most strategic objective they have captured so far in a rapid advance across the country as U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A troubled past of foreign military intervention has made many Haitians anxious or hostile to calls requesting U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa yesterday, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in years.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Texas Democratic lawmakers defied calls for their arrest yesterday, a day after fleeing their state to thwart efforts to pass voting restrictions, and said they would stay in Washington to push for federal voting reform.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have charged four Iranians, alleged to be intelligence operatives for Tehran, with plotting to kidnap a New York journalist and human rights activist who was critical of Iran, according to a Justice Department indictment unsealed on Tuesday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine have repeatedly failed to provide data that regulators deem to be standard requirements of the drug approval process, according to five people with knowledge of European efforts to assess the drug, providing new insight into the country’s struggle to win foreign acceptance of its product.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa today, with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in years.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – One of the Haitian-American men arrested on suspicion of taking part in the assassination of Haiti’s president last week had been an informant to the U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan prosecutors yesterday said they had charged opposition politician Freddy Guevara with terrorism and treason, among other allegations, after the country’s intelligence service arrested him from his car on a Caracas highway.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is still reviewing a request for troops made by Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph to help secure its airport and other infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the White House said yesterday.

NASSIRIYA, Iraq, (Reuters) – At least 44 people were killed and over 67 injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a coronavirus hospital in Iraq’s southern city of Nassiriya, health officials and police said yesterday.