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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Joe Biden will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Brazilian Amazon when he travels to Manaus later this month, a symbolic trip given the United States is likely to see a dramatic change in climate policy under President-elect Donald Trump.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The S&P 500 briefly surpassed the 6,000 mark and closed with its biggest weekly percentage gain in a year, as Donald Trump’s election victory and a possible Republican Party sweep in Congress fueled expectations for favorable business policies.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) –  Massachusetts’ top court yesterday ruled that a would-be bride must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her former fiancé in a decision that ended 65 years of courts in the New England state trying to sort through who is to blame when a relationship falls apart.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Sean “Diddy” Combs yesterday proposed a new $50 million bail package backed by his Florida mansion that the music mogul hopes will win his release from the Brooklyn jail where he has been held for eight weeks on criminal sex trafficking charges.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – A constitutional court in Bolivia has barred former President Evo Morales from running again for office, ushering in a new phase in the country’s long-running political crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge today set aside pending deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case after federal prosecutors said they were grappling with the “unprecedented circumstance” of his impending return to the White House.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Office said today nearly 70% of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza war were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) –  Donald Trump’s Republicans were projected to pick up another U.S.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump yesterday announced that Susie Wiles, one of his two campaign managers, will be his White House chief of staff, entrusting a top position to a political operative who helped the Republican win election.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday threatened to hold former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for failing to surrender his luxury apartment and other belongings to two Georgia election workers he defamed and owes $148 million.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Three people have been charged in relation to One Direction singer Liam Payne’s death in a fall from his Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine authorities said yesterday.

DUBAI/CAIRO, (Reuters) – At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom announced yesterday that he will convene a special session of the legislature in response to Donald Trump winning the U.S.

SOCHI, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The amount of finance provided to developing countries to help them adapt to the impacts of climate change is far short of the $359 billion a year needed even after the biggest annual increase yet, a U.N.

MAPUTO, (Reuters) – Mozambican police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital Maputo yesterday in the biggest demonstration yet against the long-ruling Frelimo party which was declared the winner of a disputed election last month.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden urged Americans to “bring down the temperature” today following Republican Donald Trump’s election victory and sought to console fellow Democrats who were alarmed by the former president’s stunning comeback.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year.

BEIJING/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping congratulated Donald Trump on his U.S.

MAPUTO, (Reuters) – Mozambican police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital Maputo today in the biggest demonstration yet against the long-ruling Frelimo party which was declared the winner of a disputed election last month.