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CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – U.S. carriers yesterday canceled thousands of flights through the weekend in anticipation of a winter storm forecast to bring high winds and heavy snow across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

A federal judge invalidated the results of an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday saying the Biden administration failed to properly account for the auction’s climate change impact.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The U.S. and Taiwanese vice presidents had a brief conversation yesterday at the inauguration of the new Honduran president, a rare encounter that is highly symbolic and likely to add to Beijing’s tensions with Washington.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it was clear the United States was not willing to address its main security concerns in their standoff over Ukraine, but both sides kept the door open to further dialogue.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China has agreed to let the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit Xinjiang in the first half of 2022 after the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a report in the South China Morning Post which cited unnamed sources.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said yesterday that Iran had gained influence in Lebanon because Arab states had abandoned the country, stepping up criticism of the Iran-backed Hezbollah and suggesting Tehran wants to erase the Lebanese state.

KYIV/BERLIN,  (Reuters) – So grateful were Ukrainians for British military aid arriving last week that “God Save the Queen” was trending on Twitter, while one winery in western Ukraine offered free drinks to British nationals.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire, lawmakers said on Wednesday, giving President Joe Biden the opportunity to fulfill a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s top judicial body.

(Reuters) – Gun owners in San Jose, California, would be required to carry insurance coverage for their weapons and pay an annual “harm reduction” fee under a newly approved city ordinance believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the Taliban-ruled state.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Rescue crews searched waters off Florida’s Atlantic shore yesterday for 39 people reported missing by a survivor found clinging to a boat that capsized in what the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case that could doom university policies considering race as a factor in student admissions is the latest sign of the conservative majority’s eagerness to put its stamp on America’s most divisive issues.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday he would consider personal sanctions on President Vladimir Putin if Russia invades Ukraine, as Western leaders stepped up military preparations and made plans to shield Europe from a potential energy supply shock.

(Reuters) – A native tribal group has reclaimed a redwood forest in Northern California, with a San Francisco conservation group transferring more than 500 acres (202 hectares) to a council that represents tribal nations with historical ties to the area.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Unilever unveiled plans today to cut about 1,500 management jobs in a restructuring aimed at easing shareholders’ concerns after a failed acquisition and reports an activist investor has built a stake in the consumer goods giant.

MOSCOW/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – NATO said yesterday it was putting forces on standby and reinforcing eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets, in what Russia denounced as Western “hysteria” in response to its build-up of troops on the Ukraine border.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The browning of one of Brazil’s largest clearwater rivers, the Tapajos, is almost certainly due to the mud and sentiments churned up by increasing illegal gold mining, federal prosecutors and environmental activists said on Monday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Boris Johnson was fighting to shore up his premiership yesterday after his office said his birthday in 2020 was marked by a gathering in Downing Street, adding fuel to an investigation into government parties during COVID-19 lockdowns.

OUAGADOUGOU, (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s ruling party said today President Roch Kabore had survived an assassination attempt, adding that what began as a mutiny by some soldiers yesterday was rapidly evolving into a coup.

WASHINGTON/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department announced yesterday it was ordering diplomats’ family members to leave Ukraine, as U.S.