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MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian celebrities from the world of Bollywood and cricket are increasingly launching digital memorabilia through non-fungible tokens (NFT), hoping to rake in thousands of dollars by cashing in on growing interest in such assets.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s armed forces have captured Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, in the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the Andean country since the death of Pablo Escobar, President Ivan Duque said on Saturday.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries for demanding the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats are closing in on a deal on President Joe Biden’s social and climate-change agenda by narrowing their differences over healthcare and other issues, U.S.

TAPACHULA, (Reuters) – Several thousand migrants from Haiti, South America and Central America set off from southern Mexico headed north on Saturday, clashing with law enforcement trying to hold the caravan back.

(University of Ottawa) – A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has found no correlation between COVID-19 vaccinations and risk of first-trimester miscarriages, providing further evidence of the safety of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy.

(SciDev.Net) – Climate leaders from the global South have a clear message for governments ahead of the COP26 UN climate talks: stop talking and start acting.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Major economies will produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with meeting climate goals set in the 2015 Paris accord to curb global warming, the United Nations and researchers said on Wednesday.

(Brigham and Women’s Hospital) – Scientists have long suggested that getting enough sleep at night is vital to staying healthy.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said today he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from Western countries ‘persona non grata’ for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

WINDHOEK, (Reuters) – Namibia will suspend the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, its health ministry said today, days after the drugs regulator in neighbouring South Africa flagged concerns about its safety for people at risk of HIV.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada has scrapped an official advisory urging its citizens to shun non-essential foreign travel, given its successful campaign to inoculate people against COVID-19, the country’s top medical officer said yesterday.

SANTA FE, N.M.,  (Reuters) – Alec Baldwin was handed what was described as a safe “cold gun” on the set of his movie “Rust”, but the prop gun contained live rounds when it was fired, according to details of the police investigation into the fatal shooting released yesterday.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear on Nov.

(Reuters) – Mass Friday prayers resumed in Tehran after a 20-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, state TV reported.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil has had 14,502 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 460 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and wounded a director when he discharged a prop gun on a movie set in New Mexico yesterday, authorities said.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Marie Cohuet hid in a lavatory inside the Louvre art museum for over two hours, plotting her gatecrashing of Louis Vuitton’s Paris Fashion Week show in protest at the environmental damage that activists say is caused by the fashion industry.

BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said yesterday he was close to striking a deal to pass major infrastructure and social spending measures, with just a handful of issues still under debate, after weeks of intraparty bickering among his fellow Democrats.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian authorities said yesterday that a Colombian national, considered a suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, had been arrested in Jamaica as investigations continues.