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NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India began vaccinating tens of thousands of people above the age of 45 today in its biggest push yet against a surging coronavirus that has hit the highest daily count since early October, officials said.

PITTSBURGH,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world’s largest economy and counter China’s rise in a $2 trillion-plus proposal that was met with swift Republican resistance.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – A revised World Bank policy on climate change commits to making financing decisions in line with efforts to limit global warming, but stops short of promising to halt funding of fossil fuels, according to a draft bank presentation seen by Reuters.

(Reuters) – Rates of stillbirth and maternal deaths rose by around a third during the COVID-19 pandemic, with pregnancy outcomes getting worse overall for both babies and mothers worldwide, according to an international data review published yesterday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The British Broadcasting Corp said yesterday one of its journalists in China had relocated to Taiwan, a move that comes amid criticism from Beijing of its reports on alleged human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines yesterday joined a bid by U.S.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said today their COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and produced robust antibody responses in 12 to 15-year olds, paving the way for them to seek approval in the United States and Europe in weeks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit issued a false news release claiming it would rename its U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti emerged from the brutal and dynastic Duvalier dictatorship to democracy 35 years ago.

 (Reuters) – G. Gordon Liddy, a brash former FBI agent who helped orchestrate the 1972 Watergate break-in, a crime that began the unraveling of Richard Nixon’s presidency, died yesterdayat the age of 90.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Tony Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman and brother of the sitting president, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for drug trafficking by a U.S.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A stampede at a Tanzanian stadium crushed 45 people to death as mourners paid last respects to late President John Magufuli, police said yesterday, many times more than the five fatalities initially announced after the disaster on March 21.

JALALABAD,  (Reuters) – Gunmen killed three female polio vaccination workers in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said, adding that a blast had also rocked the provincial health department headquarters but left no casualties.

(Reuters) – Myanmar protesters held overnight candle-lit vigils after an advocacy group said security forced had now killed over 500 people since a Feb.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Monday sharply condemned the weekend killing of a Salvadoran woman in Mexican police custody, who died after a female officer was seen in a video kneeling on her back.

ISMAILIA, Egypt,  (Reuters) – Shipping was on the move again late yesterday in Egypt’s Suez Canal after tugs refloated a giant container ship which had been blocking the channel for almost a week, causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that the virus was probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely” as a cause, a summary seen by Reuters said yesterday.

OTTAWA/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian health officials said yesterday they would stop offering AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to people under age 55 and require a new analysis of the shot’s risks and benefits based on age and gender.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – All members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party who have been charged with corruption or other serious crimes must step aside within 30 days, or else face suspension, President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday.

VALLETTA/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – A widening investigation into allegations of high-level corruption on the island of Malta, first levelled by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, stretches to China and a $400 million investment into Europe by a Chinese state power company, Reuters has found.