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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Far-right media personality Tim Gionet, who goes by the handle “Baked Alaska,” was arrested on Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Houston, Texas, according to documents the agency posted online, and charged with participating in the violent riot on Capitol Hill on Jan.

MANAUS/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian jungle state of Amazonas received more emergency supplies of oxygen and respirators yesterday, as the military and neighboring Venezuela scrambled to alleviate an unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by a devastating COVID-19 outbreak.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Hospital cleaning worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against COVID-19 yesterday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched one of the world’s largest immunisation campaigns to bring the pandemic under control.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said it is “deeply disappointed” by Mexico’s decision to close its investigation of ex-Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, after the Mexican attorney general decided not to press charges.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Hondurans, including many families with children, walked together across Guatemala yesterday hoping to reach the United States, fleeing poverty and violence in a region battered by the pandemic and back-to-back hurricanes late last year.

ITAPUÃ DO OESTE, Brazil (Reuters) – The machete-wielding scientists ventured into the Amazon, hacking through dense jungle as the mid-morning temperature soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 C).

(Reuters) – Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin aims to carry the first passengers on its New Shepard space vehicle as early as April, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

(Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – Using gene therapy, a research team has succeeded for the first time in getting mice to walk again after a complete cross-sectional injury.

(University of Cambridge) – Researchers have developed a DNA test to quickly identify secondary infections in COVID-19 patients, who have double the risk of developing pneumonia while on ventilation than non-COVID-19 patients.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said today, but his main rival Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Hondurans, including many families with children, walked together across Guatemala today  hoping to reach the United States, fleeing poverty and violence in a region wracked by the economic fallout of the pandemic and back-to-back hurricanes late last year.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – France’s Total SE yesterday became the first major global energy company to quit the main U.S.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government resigned yesterday, accepting responsibility for wrongful accusations of fraud by the tax authorities that drove thousands of families to financial ruin, often on the basis of ethnicity.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni had a commanding lead in Uganda’s presidential election according to preliminary results yesterday though his main rival Bobi Wine said there had been widespread fraud.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday ordered a far-right conspiracy theorist who left an ominous note for Vice President Mike Pence inside the U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday backed the decision by his country’s attorney general not to charge ex-Defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos with drug crimes, in a case that has roiled U.S.-Mexico

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Any members of the U.S. Congress who helped a crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters storm the Capitol should face criminal prosecution, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week’s siege of the U.S.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey has vaccinated more than 500,000 people in the first two days of administering COVID-19 shots developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, health ministry data showed today, among the speediest rollouts globally.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – A pigeon due to be put down in Australia after apparently flying across the Pacific was spared the death sentence today, after a leg tag identifying it as belonging to a U.S.