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(Reuters) – Alabama and six other U.S. states reported record increases in coronavirus cases yesterday as Florida’s most populous county imposed a curfew ahead of the Independence Day weekend and Arkansas joined a push toward mandating mask-wearing in public.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina are the Latin American countries that earned the best grades for their response to the coronavirus, according to a poll conducted in the region and released on Friday, while Brazil was tagged as the worst performer.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Netflix said yesterday it will continue to stream the Polish film “365 Days” amid calls for its withdrawal including by British singer Duffy who said it glamorised “the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape”.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain has recognised Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s president, the English High Court ruled yesterday, in a case over whether Guaido or Nicolas Maduro should control $1 billion of its gold stored in London.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil registered 1,252 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 61,884, the Ministry of Health said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombians have taken to social media and online petitioning to demand that seven soldiers charged with the sexual assault of an indigenous child receive maximum prison sentences, voicing outrage and concern that justice will not be delivered.

(Reuters) – More than three dozen U.S. states were seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases, according to a Reuters tally yesterday and the nation set a new record with more than 51,000 infections in a single day as a fresh wave of the pandemic spread across the nation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors filed a lawsuit to seize the gasoline aboard four tankers that Iran is trying to ship to Venezuela, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to increase economic pressure on the two U.S.

GABORONE,  (Reuters) – Botswana is investigating a growing number of unexplained deaths of elephants, having confirmed 275 had died, up from 154 two weeks ago, the government said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain has recognised Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s president, the English High Court ruled today, in a case over whether Guaido or Nicolas Maduro should control $1 billion of its gold stored in London.

(Reuters) – A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed at least 113 people, with more feared dead, authorities said on Thursday, after a heap of mining waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a wave of mud and water that buried many workers.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British police said today they had carried out their biggest operation ever, arresting “iconic” figures and smashing thousands of conspiracies including murder plots after infiltrating a communications service used by criminals.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The British government will effectively ditch its air bridge plans and simply end coronavirus quarantine rules for those arriving from 75 countries so that people can go on holiday, the Telegraph newspaper reported.

(Reuters) – Governors of U.S. states hit hardest by the resurgent coronavirus halted or reversed steps to reopen their economies yesterday, led by California, the nation’s most populous state and a new epicenter of the pandemic.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China to snuff out dissent.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region in protests following the fatal shooting of a popular singer, a regional spokesman said today, laying bare splits in the prime minister’s political heartland ahead of next year’s polls.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – New U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by more than 47,000 yesterday according to a Reuters tally, the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic, as the government’s top infectious disease expert warned that number could soon double.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Security was tight near the heart of Hong Kong’s government district today only hours after new security laws came into force and as the city marked the 23rd anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to China.

BOA VISTA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s military delivered protective supplies and medicines yesterday by helicopter to isolated Amazon indigenous communities bordering Venezuela and tested frightened members for COVID-19.