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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel will meet today to consider possible limits on the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because of continued blood clot issues, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail, after setting aside an earlier decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgment showed yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to approve a Democratic proposal for a U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve said yesterday it would end its pandemic-era bond purchases in March and pave the way for three quarter-percentage-point interest rate hikes by the end of 2022 as the economy nears full employment and the U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail, after setting aside an earlier decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgment showed today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Almost 100 Conservative lawmakers voted yesterday against new coronavirus restrictions, dealing a major blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authority and raising questions about his leadership.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Three European powers said yesterday “we are rapidly reaching the end of the road” to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as Tehran accused Western powers of engaging in a “blame game.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Methane continues to escape at a high rate from oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin, according to an aerial survey released yesterday that detected major methane plumes from 40% of 900 sites that were measured.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, part of Washington’s continued pushback against Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The city of Washington, D.C., sued right-wing groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers yesterday, seeking to collect on the financial costs of the deadly Jan.

(Reuters) – An ethics panel in New York yesterday ordered former Governor Andrew Cuomo to return $5.1 million he received for his memoir after finding he failed to follow state ethics regulations, a spokesperson with the commission said.

(Reuters) – New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams will appoint a woman to serve as commissioner of the city’s police department for the first time in its 176-year history, local media reported yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate yesterday approved raising the federal government’s debt limit by $2.5 trillion, to about $31.4 trillion, and sent it to the House of Representatives to pass and avert an unprecedented default.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A World Trade Organization panel ruled in favour of Brazil, Australia and Guatemala yesterday in their trade disputes with India over sugar subsidies and asked New Delhi to conform with global rules.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, according to a major real-world study which suggests weaker efficacy against the new Omicron variant.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – Nearly a year after COVID-19 vaccines were first administered in the United States, the country is returning to many of the hallmarks that defined earlier pandemic life: mask mandates, mass vaccination sites, crowded hospitals and a rising death toll.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – The United States and Qatar have assured Turkey that Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum will stay out of Turkey’s continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday, after the companies were given an energy exploration license in disputed waters.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan hosted Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett, yesterday in the first-ever public meeting between the United Arab Emirates’ de facto ruler and an Israeli leader.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Nigeria will destroy around one million expired COVID-19 vaccines, Faisal Shuaib, head of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said yesterday, adding his agency was working with drug regulator NAFDAC to set a date for their destruction.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Geneva’s chief prosecutor said yesterday he had closed a criminal investigation into allegations Spain’s former king Juan Carlos laundered “illegal commission” payments from Saudi Arabia, due to insufficient evidence.