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SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s top court has ruled that the country’s president can serve two consecutive terms, opening the door for incumbent Nayib Bukele to stand for re-election in 2024.

PODGORICA,  (Reuters) – Several thousand protesters used tyres, rocks and vehicles to block roads leading to the city of Cetinje in southwest Montenegro yesterday in a bid to stop the Serbian Orthodox Church holding an enthronement ceremony for its new top cleric.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged major powers to “show responsibility” and play a leading role in improving global environmental governance and addressing such challenges as climate change.

(Cleveland Clinic) – Researchers have engineered a first-of-its-kind bionic arm for patients with upper-limb amputations that allows wearers to think, behave and function like a person without an amputation, according to new findings published in Science Robotics.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19.

(SciDev.Net) – The worldwide loss of bees and other pollinators is driven primarily by changes in land use, land management and pesti-cide application, espe-cially in the global South, according to a global assessment.

 (Reuters) – Taliban and opposition forces were fighting on Saturday for control of the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last province in Afghanistan holding out against the Islamist group, according to reports.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – During a 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Donald Trump made a statement that seemed brash at the time: If he were elected and got the chance to nominate justices to the U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – The Federated States of Micronesia will tap a U.S.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – New Zea-land police yesterday shot and killed a knife-wielding “extremist” who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move yesterday he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure marred by an unpopular COVID-19 response and sinking public support.

LABREA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Thick smoke billowed above Brazil’s Amazon jungle as fire tore through butchered rainforest and discarded trees littered the scorched earth like dead matchsticks, burnt and black.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move today he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure marred by an unpopular COVID-19 response and sinking public support.

MAPLEWOOD, N.J.,  (Reuters) – Flash flooding killed at least 44 people in four North-eastern states as remnants of Hurricane Ida unleashed torrential rains that swept away cars, submerged New York City subway lines and grounded airline flights, officials said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Texas law imposing a near-total ban on abortion that the U.S.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – A legal reform in El Salvador that seeks to fire all judges over the age of 60 that was approved by allies of President Nayib Bukele came under criticism from a U.S.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Billions of dollars in funding aimed at developing the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s volatile and impoverished oil-producing region, have been lost over the past two decades, the Nigerian government said yesterday, citing a new forensic audit.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Swedish supergroup ABBA announced their first new album in four decades yesterday and said they would stage a series of virtual concerts using digital avatars of themselves in London next year.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Twelve people died and 4,400 fell sick in southern Democratic Republic of Congo following a tailings leak from the Catoca diamond mine in Angola in July, Congo’s environment minister said yesterday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China ordered broadcasters today to shun artists with “incorrect political positions” and “effeminate” styles, and said a patriotic atmosphere needed to be cultivated, widening a crackdown on its booming entertainment industry.