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GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala asked a group of international donors, including the United States and United Kingdom, to avoid meddling in its election for attorney general, a powerful anti-corruption office in the Central American nation.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – A fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given to people over 60 in Israel made them three times more resistant to serious illness than thrice-vaccinated people in the same age group, Israel’s Health Ministry said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Opposition leader Juan Guaido on Sunday called for Venezuelans to take to the streets on Feb.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said yesterday he will send an additional 1,100 police officers to coastal Guayaquil and increase military presence there amid a spate of violent deaths the government says are connected to the fight against the drug trade.

LONDON/KIYV, (Reuters) – Russia will face severe economic sanctions if it installs a puppet regime in Ukraine, a senior UK minister said today after Britain accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a pro-Russian leader there.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British lawmaker has said she was fired from a ministerial job in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government partly because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable, the Sunday Times reported.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The United States, the World Health Organization’s top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the talks said, raising doubts about the Biden administration’s long-term support for the U.N.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Some supporters of an effort to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office through a referendum said yesterday they would ask the country’s top tribunal to review signature collection conditions set by the electoral commission.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has cancelled her wedding as the nation imposes new restrictions to slow the community spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, she told reporters.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reassured Mexicans that he was in good health following an overnight hospital stay for a cardiac catheterization procedure as part of a regular check-up.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s allies must act immediately to help tackle a spike in violence that is worsening an already precarious humanitarian situation, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday.

APIATE, Ghana, (Reuters) – At least 13 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana detonated, flattening a rural community, the police said yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Oil majors TotalEnergies and Chevron Corp, partners in a major gas project in Myanmar, said yesterday they were withdrawing from the country, citing the worsening humanitarian situation following last year’s coup.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The top U.S. and Russian diplomats made no major breakthrough at talks on Ukraine yesterday but agreed to keep talking to try to resolve a crisis that has stoked fears of a military conflict.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, lamenting a failure of global governance, urged the world to go into emergency mode to tackle COVID-19, the climate crisis and global finance reform, put humanity at the center of technology and bring peace.

(Reuters) – Schlumberger NV reported a rise in fourth-quarter profit on Friday, as demand for the company’s oilfield services and related equipment was boosted by producers looking to capitalize on higher crude prices.

(Reuters) – A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Oil majors TotalEnergies and Chevron Corp, partners in a major gas project in Myanmar, said today they were withdrawing from the country, citing the worsening humanitarian situation following last year’s coup.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – At least 17 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana collided with a motorcycle, setting off an explosion that flattened a rural community, the government said today.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The United States is becoming increasingly involved in the investigation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s murder, with key suspects facing the prospect of trial in U.S.