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United compels worker Covid shots in first for US airlines

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc said workers must get vaccinated against the coronavirus, becoming the first major US carrier to impose the mandate. Employees must receive the vaccine and upload their injection record to a company database no later than October 25, although that date could change, United said in a memo. In mid-June, the Chicago-based airline began requiring new ...

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Brazil political crisis grows as Bolsonaro, top court bicker

Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro’s relentless attack on Brazil’s voting system soured his relationship with the Supreme Court, leaving the country on the brink of an institutional crisis. Top Justice Luiz Fux canceled plans for a meeting with Bolsonaro and the heads of congress that was intended to defuse rising tensions between them. The move came a day after the court ...

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Myanmar citizens charged with plot against UN envoy

Bloomberg Two citizens of Myanmar were arrested in the US and charged with conspiring to injure or kill their nation’s ambassador to the United Nations, federal prosecutors in New York said in a statement. Phyo Hein Htut and Ye Hein Zaw are charged with plotting with a Thai arms dealer who sells weapons to Myanmar’s military government, which took over ...

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