World

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday that the West would impose “strong economic and other measures” on Russia if it invades Ukraine, while Putin demanded guarantees that NATO would not expand farther eastward.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French police yesterday arrested a suspected member of the hit squad that killed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as the man was about to board a flight from Paris to Riyadh, French law enforcement sources said.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile’s Congress passed a law to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday, in a milestone for the conservative South American nation after a decade-long legal battle and with the country delicately poised ahead of a crossroads election this month.

(Reuters) – As the inspector general at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Carl Hoecker leads investigations into wrongdoing by agency staff.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty African nations have getting shots in arms.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – A wellhead leak in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state has spewed two million barrels of oil and gas equivalent into the Delta creeks, the senate said yesterday.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A global energy conference devoted to future technologies and low-carbon strategies kicked off in Houston yesterday with top executives from energy companies affirming the need for more oil for decades to come.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York City expanded its array of COVID-19 mandates yesterday, setting vaccine requirements for children as young as 5 years old and for workers at all private-sector companies as the highly transmissible Omicron variant pushes into more U.S.

(Reuters) – The World Health Organization yesterday advised against using the blood plasma of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to treat those who are ill, saying current evidence shows it neither improves survival nor reduces the need for ventilators.

(Reuters) – Three missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti in October have been released, the U.S.

(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions yesterday, drawing international condemnation of what critics described as a “sham trial”.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – A global energy conference devoted to future technologies and low-carbon strategies kicked off in Houston today with top executives from the largest U.S.

(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar jailed deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years today on charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions, drawing international outrage of what some critics described as a “sham trial”.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Julio Borges, the politician who serves as foreign minister for Venezuela’s U.S.-backed

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Bob Dole, who overcame grievous World War Two combat wounds to become a pre-eminent figure in U.S.

BANJUL,  (Reuters) – Gambian President Adama Barrow has comfortably won re-election, the electoral commission said yesterday, though he may face a legal challenge from opposition candidates who rejected the results because of unspecified irregularities.

KYANKWANZI, Uganda,  (Reuters) – Chinese private investment in Uganda is growing while Westerners are losing appetite to put money to work in the country, President Yoweri Museveni told Reuters, pledging to step up efforts to tackle corruption that have made slow progress.

PORT EDWARD, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africans took to their beaches yesterday to protest against plans by Royal Dutch Shell to do seimsic oil exploration they say will threaten marine wildlife such as whales, dolphins, seals and penguins on a pristine coastal stretch.

SUMBERWULUH, Indonesia (Reuters) – The eruption of Indonesia’s Semeru volcano has killed at least 14 people and injured dozens, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said today, as search teams looked for victims in a landscape covered in deep layers of ash.