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SAN DIEGO, Calif.,  (Reuters) – A group of 25 asylum seekers was allowed into the United States yesterday, a United Nations official said, the start of efforts to unwind one of former President Donald Trump’s most restrictive immigration policies, which forced thousands to wait in Mexico for their U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro moved to replace the head of state-run oil company Petrobras, naming a retired army general to the CEO post after weeks of tension with the current chief executive over fuel price hikes.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – A federal court in Lagos has issued an injunction barring Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiaries from withdrawing money at 20 local banks until it ringfences potential damages in a lawsuit brought against the oil major by Aiteo Eastern E&P.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – A federal court in Lagos has issued an injunction barring Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiares from withdrawing money at 20 local banks until it ringfences potential damages in a lawsuit brought against the oil major by Aiteo Eastern E&P.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights watchdog said today it has asked the United Arab Emirates for more information about the status of Dubai’s Sheikha Latifa and proof that she is alive.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere yesterday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.

PARIS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday said it was ready to talk to Iran about both nations returning to a 2015 agreement that aimed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, seeking to revive a deal that Washington itself abandoned nearly three years ago.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed  yesterday to press ahead with laws to force Facebook Inc to pay news outlets for content, saying he had received support from world leaders after the social media giant blacked out all media.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Reported daily coronavirus infections have been falling across the world for a month and yesterday hit their lowest since mid-October, Reuters figures show, but health experts warned against apathy even as vaccines are being rolled out worldwide.

 (Reuters) – Protesters demonstrated across Myanmar again today to denounce the Feb.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – When a 22-year-old Japanese college student launched an online campaign against the powerful Tokyo Olympics chief and the sexist remarks he made, she was not sure it would go very far.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook Inc pages yesterday after the social media giant blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government over paying for content.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Provocative and polarizing U.S. talk radio luminary Rush Limbaugh, a leading voice on the American political right since the 1980s who boosted, and was honored by, former President Donald Trump, has died at age 70 after suffering from lung cancer, his wife said yesterday.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Texas oil producers and refiners remained shut for a fifth day yesterday after several days of blistering cold, and the governor ordered a ban on natural gas exports from the state to try to speed the restoration of power.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than $1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency, affecting companies from banks to Hollywood movie studios, the Department of Justice said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Myanmar today, rejecting the army’s assertion that the public supported its overthrow of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and vowing they would not be cowed in their bid to end military rule.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South Africa launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive today, battling to tame a more infectious variant of the coronavirus with a roll-out of the Johnson & Johnson shot for the first time outside a clinical trial.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – A Mumbai court today granted bail to an associate of a 22-year-old climate activist whose arrest for promoting an action plan for farmers’ protests has caused outrage across the country.

LUBBOCK, Texas, (Reuters) – A historic winter storm has killed at least 21 people, left millions of Texans without power and spun killer tornadoes into the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Bitcoin rose above $50,000 yesterday for the first time, adding steam to a rally fuelled by signs that the world’s biggest cryptocurrency is gaining acceptance among mainstream investors and companies.