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The sun rises on the U.S. Capitol dome before Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in Washington, U.S.,
U.S. infrastructure deal teeters after Republicans reject IRS funding

The White House and U.S. congressional negotiators are scrambling to salvage a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal after Republicans balked at funding to enforce existing tax laws - a key way to pay for the plan - leaving both sides searching for a way forward.

Leftist Pedro Castillo speaks to supporters from the headquarters of the
'Change is coming': Peru's Castillo faces a divided nation after election battle

Peru's Pedro Castillo has won a long and tense presidential election battle. Now he needs to heal the wounds of a starkly divided nation, split between support for his socialist reforms and fears he will upend the Andean nation's traditional politics and mining.

Checkmate, new Sukhoi fifth-generation stealth fighter jet is seen during an opening ceremony of the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky,
Putin inspects new Russian fighter jet unveiled at air show

President Vladimir Putin inspected a prototype of a new Sukhoi fifth-generation fighter jet on Tuesday that Russia unveiled at its annual MAKS air show with an eye on export markets.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab gestures during an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain
UK says it and allies hold Chinese state responsible for Microsoft hacking

Britain said on Monday that it and its partners held Chinese state-backed groups responsible for "a pervasive pattern of hacking" involving attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers.

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U.S. charges four Chinese nationals charged in global hacking campaign

Four Chinese nationals have been charged in a global hacking campaign aimed at dozens of companies, universities and government agencies in the United States and abroad, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.

Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn talks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon
American duo sentenced to prison by Tokyo court for helping Ghosn flee Japan

A Tokyo court on Monday doled out the first sentences in Japan related to Carlos Ghosn's arrest and escape, imprisoning U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor for two years and his son Peter for one year and eight months for helping the former Nissan Motor Co Ltd chairman flee to Lebanon in 2019.

Rescue workers search for survivors after a residential house collapsed due to landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India,
Heavy rains cripple Indian cities; at least 35 killed

India's capital New Delhi and the main financial centre of Mumbai were drenched with heavy rain on Monday, a day after at least 35 people were killed across the country in landslides and house collapses triggered by downpours.

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy from the White House in Washington, U.S.
Biden believes China 'protected' cyber hackers but didn't carry out attacks

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he believes the Chinese government did not carry out a global cyberespionage campaign, but did protect those who are doing it from inside their country.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks during the third annual U.S.-Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, U.S.,
U.S. declined to prosecute Trump Commerce chief after watchdog findings

The U.S. Justice Department declined to prosecute the Trump administration's Commerce Department chief Wilbur Ross after the department's inspector general's office found he misrepresented the full rationale for seeking to reinstate a citizenship question in the 2020 U.S. Census in congressional testimony, according to a letter made public Monday.

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the White House in Washington, U.S
Biden softens tone on Facebook, urges action on vaccine misinformation

U.S. President Joe Biden took a softer tone when talking about Facebook Inc on Monday, after saying last week that the social media company was "killing people" by allowing the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

People work in an area affected by floods caused by heavy rainfalls in Bad Muenstereifel, Germany,
German govt rejects accusations of flood preparedness failures

German officials rejected suggestions that they had done too little to prepare for last week's floods and said warning systems had worked, as the death toll from the country's worst natural disaster in almost six decades rose above 160.

Light catches the security fence around the U.S. Capitol, erected in the wake of the January 6th attack but now scheduled to start being removed, in Washington, U.S.
Florida man gets 8 months in prison in U.S. Capitol attack

A federal judge on Monday dealt an eight-month prison sentence to Paul Hodgkins for the Florida man's role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, making him the first among more than 500 accused rioters facing criminal charges to be incarcerated.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland looks on as he announces that the Justice Department will file a lawsuit challenging a Georgia election law that imposes new limits on voting
U.S. Attorney General issues broad ban against seizing media records

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland formalized a new policy on Monday that broadly prohibits prosecutors from subpoenaing reporters' phone and email records, an abrupt shift after the Trump administration secretly seized records from several major news outlets in an effort to root out leaks.

A model of the Long March-5 Y5 rocket from China's lunar exploration program Chang'e-5 Mission is displayed at an exhibition inside the National Museum in Beijing, China
Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth after inaugural flight

A Chinese spacecraft capable of flying to the edge of the atmosphere took off and returned to Earth on the same day in what China said was a big step towards developing reusable space transportation technology.

The Bootleg Fire rages across central Oregon state, in Klamath County, Oregon, U.S
Oregon wildfire displaces 2,000 residents as blazes flare across U.S. West

Hand crews backed by water-dropping helicopters struggled on Thursday to suppress a huge wildfire that displaced roughly 2,000 residents in southern Oregon, the largest among dozens of blazes raging across the drought-stricken western United States.

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