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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said he was lifting restrictions on contacts between U.S.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway plans to more than triple its national tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030 to help it reach its climate goals, the government said on Friday, drawing criticism from the country’s powerful oil lobby.

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) – Guatemalan and Honduran soldiers will be deployed to prevent new U.S.-bound

PALO ALTO/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – By the time social media companies took action against users and groups spurring on the siege of Capitol Hill this week, culminating in the suspension of U.S.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea yesterday minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on a domestic flight with 62 people on board, and their fate was not known.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s top epidemiologist said yesterday irresponsible partying over year-end, often with relatives from abroad, fueled a surge in coronavirus infections and he warned of a crackdown to prevent the spread of the disease.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – With only days left in his presidency, Donald Trump – silenced by Twitter and shunned by a growing number of Republican officials – faces a renewed drive by Democrats to remove him from office after he incited his supporters to storm the U.S.

BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation service said on Friday.

NEW DELHI, (Scidev.Net) – India’s approval for emergency use of a locally developed COVID-19 vaccine that is still undergoing clinical trials has raised a storm of criticism by medical experts and organisations involved in public health.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank AG will pay nearly $125 million to avoid U.S.

(Reuters) – Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House Speaker’s lectern and another who wore horns and a fur pelt, while a top Democratic lawmaker called on mobile carriers to preserve social media content related to the carnage.

 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge in California yesterday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would have dramatically reshaped the U.S.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea today minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on a domestic flight with 62 people on board, and their fate was not known.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An increasingly isolated President Donald Trump sought yesterday to stave off a new drive to impeach him and Twitter permanently suspended his account, two days after his supporters stormed the U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite a shipment of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine amid broader delays to the vaccine’s arrival in Brazil, according to a letter yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she has instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward on a motion to impeach U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. House Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment proceedings against Republican President Donald Trump as early as next week following his supporters’ siege at the U.S.

 (Reuters) – A U.S. Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, has died of injuries suffered when supporters of President Donald Trump assaulted the legislative building, the force said, bringing to five the number dead from the riot.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s medical regulator today approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for use, the health ministry said, adding that it had agreed to purchase an additional 10 million doses of the shot as it eyed a spring rollout of the shot.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump faced the threat yesterday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the U.S.