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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianity’s birth.

Suriname’s electoral authorities on Thursday finally announced preliminary results from the May 25 elections won by opposition parties, which on Friday accused the government of Desi Bouterse of stymieing efforts to seat a new legislature, according to the Associated Press (AP).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Prominent Democratic politicians yesterday embraced the cause of U.S.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel yesterday over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have opened an investigation into the $2 billion loan scandal which tipped Mozambique into a debt crisis, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said yesterday.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies has pledged more than $21 billion to fight the coronavirus, the group said early today.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said yesterday it is planning to bring criminal proceedings against a Barrick Gold Corp joint venture over what it says was an attempt to illegally export $13 million in silver and gold to Australia.

(Reuters) – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday said he would consider changes to the policy that led the company to leave up controversial posts by President Donald Trump during recent demonstrations protesting the death of an unarmed black man while in police custody, a partial concession to critics.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel today over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have opened an investigation into the $2 billion loan scandal which tipped Mozambique into a debt crisis, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said today.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said today it is planning to bring criminal proceedings against a Barrick Gold Corp joint venture over what it says was an attempt to illegally export $13 million in silver and gold to Australia.

MINNEAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – Prominent civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton told mourners yesterday George Floyd’s fatal encounter with police and the nationwide protests his death ignited marked a reckoning for America over race and justice, demanding, “Get your knee off our necks.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Cheap renewable energy, climate policies and the coronavirus are pushing fossil fuel companies towards a process of “terminal decline” that could trigger a new financial crisis unless regulators act, according to a study https://carbontracker.org/reports/decline-and-fall

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to data collected by a national association of first peoples.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to data collected by a national association of first peoples.

 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has selected five companies, including Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Pfizer Inc, as the most likely candidates to produce a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing senior officials.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed to be dead and an imprisoned German child abuser is the murder suspect, a German prosecutor said on Thursday McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz.

MINNEAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – Prosecutors yesterday  leveled new criminal charges against four Minneapolis policemen implicated in the death of a black man pinned by his neck to the street during an arrest that sparked more than a week of nationwide protest and civil strife.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico overtook the United States in daily reported deaths from the novel coronavirus for the first time yesterday, with the health ministry registering a record 1,092 fatalities it attributed to improved documenting of the pandemic.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden should have done more to combat the coronavirus, the epidemiologist behind a national strategy that avoided the strict lockdowns seen in many other countries said today.