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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday signed a new raft of executive actions to combat climate change, including pausing new oil and gas leases on federal land and cutting fossil fuel subsidies, as he pursues green policies he billed as a boon for job creation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has secured an indictment against three members of the far-right “Oath Keepers” militia, charging they conspired to storm the U.S.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The European Union failed to make a breakthrough in crisis talks with AstraZeneca yesterday and demanded the drugmaker spell out how it would supply the bloc with reserved doses of COVID-19 vaccine from plants in Europe and Britain.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Over 1 million people have died from COVID-19 in North and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – President John Magufuli said today that Tanzania did not need a coronavirus lockdown because God would protect his people and homespun precautions such as steam inhalation were better than dangerous foreign vaccines.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Poorer countries face a best-case scenario of a 6-8 month lag behind richer nations in getting access to COVID-19 vaccines to protect their populations against the pandemic disease, the philanthropist Bill Gates said today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Forty-five Senate Republicans backed a failed effort yesterday to halt former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, in a show of party unity that some cited as a clear sign he will not be convicted of inciting insurrection at the Capitol.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said yesterday it was “time to act now” to heal America’s racial divide, taking several steps and promising more to confront racism and inequality that he said has plagued the United States for far too long.

MANILA, (Reuters) – A Philippine province has cancelled its award of a $10 billion airport deal south of the capital, among the biggest projects involving a Chinese firm under President Rodrigo Duterte who has pursued warmer ties with Beijing since taking office in 2016.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Jamaican police said yesterday they had detained a person of interest as part of their investigation into an attack over the weekend on six homeless men in Kingston in which four were hacked to death and two critically injured.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russia and the United States have struck a deal to extend the New START nuclear arms control treaty, the Kremlin said yesterday, a move that preserves the last major pact of its kind between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is promoting a “miracle” medication that he said neutralizes COVID-19 with no side effects, a claim doctors said was not backed by science.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died from viral pneumonia related to COVID-19, the government said today.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms breached barricades today to enter the historic Red Fort complex in the capital and hoist flags after clashing with police, who fired tear gas to scatter them.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives delivered to the Senate yesterday a charge that former President Donald Trump incited insurrection in a speech to supporters before the deadly attack on the Capitol, setting in motion his second impeachment trial.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The United States will “make good” on financial commitments to developing countries struggling with climate change, top U.S.

FRANKFURT,  (Reuters) – AstraZeneca denied yesterday its COVID-19 vaccine is not very effective for people over 65, after German media reports said officials fear the vaccine may not be approved in the European Union for use in the elderly.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday vowed to replace the U.S.

(Reuters) – Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate Republican leader, said yesterday he would agree to a power-sharing agreement with Democrats, dropping demands that had held up the basic organization and daily work of the 50-50 chamber for days.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Juan Guaido is a “privileged interlocutor” but no longer considered interim president, European Union states said in a statement to, sticking by their decision to downgrade his status.