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January 26, 2021

Health workers transport a patient at Getulio Vargas hospital amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Manaus, on January 14 Surge in...

FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela December 5, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero

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EU states no longer recognise Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president

FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela December 5, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero...

Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. Right-wing extremism has previously mostly played out in isolated pockets of America or in smaller cities. In contrast, the deadly attack by rioters on the U.S. Capitol targeted the very heart of government. It brought together members of disparate groups, creating the opportunity for extremists to establish links with each other. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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Lawmakers threatened ahead of impeachment trial

Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. Right-wing...

Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under medical treatment, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

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Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19, symptoms mild

Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. Mexico President Andrés...

TV footage from China showed the first miner being brought to the surface after two weeks underground

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China mine rescue: Nine found dead during rescue in Shandong province

TV footage from China showed the first miner being brought to the surface after two weeks underground BBC - Nine...

Francisca Alves Xavier, 102, gets a shot of China’s Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine during a priority vaccination programme for the elderly at Bezerra de Menezes Asylum in Brasilia on January 22 [Eraldo Peres/AP Photo]

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Brazil begins roll-out of 2 million COVID vaccines amid protests

Francisca Alves Xavier, 102, gets a shot of China’s Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine during a priority vaccination programme for the elderly...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to US President Joe Biden from London, UK, January 23, 2021 [Downing Street Handout via Reuters]

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Johnson, Biden discuss climate change, COVID-19

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to US President Joe Biden from London, UK, January 23, 2021 British PM ‘looks...

FILE - In this April 18, 2007 file photo, Larry King speaks to guests at a party held by CNN, celebrating King's fifty years of broadcasting in New York. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted that King died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. ( AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

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Larry King, broadcasting giant for half-century, dies at 87

FILE - In this April 18, 2007 file photo, Larry King speaks to guests at a party held by CNN,...

The first miner rescued was in a different part of the mine to the rest of the survivors (BBC)

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China mine rescue: Eleven miners brought to surface, say state media

The first miner rescued was in a different part of the mine to the rest of the survivors (BBC)' The...

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley addresses PNM supporters in Mt Pleasant on Thursday. (Image courtesy PNM Tobago)

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Trinidad PM: I was prepared to close inter-island border