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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s project to build a canal in Istanbul will cost around $15 billion, according to the nation’s transport ministerhttps://trib.al/gtVH3rq 

U.S. consumer credit climbed in March by more than forecast, highlighting an increased willingness to borrow as economic activity resumeshttps://trib.al/lZnDVlt 

President Biden’s White House released its first set of official visitor logs, returning to a practice set by the Obama administration and dismissed by Trumphttps://trib.al/mnE13UQ 

Jair Bolsonaro’s approval rating inched lower even as his government launched a new round of modest cash handouts to help Brazil’s poor cope with the pandemichttps://trib.al/jZsJ0sK 

The United Federation of Teachers is standing by New York mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer as he fights an allegation of sexual-misconduct, saying "one reason why unions got formed is that people get treated unfairly"https://trib.al/nzs47KK 

Colombia warned Argentina against interfering in its internal affairs in a diplomatic row over the ferocity of the police response toward Colombian demonstratorshttps://trib.al/cRI0UNU 

Peru’s stocks and bonds jumped the most in more than five months after a poll showed the leftist front-runner, Pedro Castillo, losing ground in the country’s presidential racehttps://trib.al/hVJRatL 

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lambasted the U.S. for funneling money to non-profits that have published critical statements about his governmenthttps://trib.al/tSBnjwD 

Boris Johnson is celebrating triumphant early results in U.K. elections but he faces trouble ahead with a resurgent Scottish independence movement also making crucial gainshttps://trib.al/SGmRr6K 

European opposition to a U.S. proposal to waive patents for Covid-19 vaccines is mounting, with French President Emmanuel Macron joining inhttps://trib.al/77xe2wQ 

Janet Yellen says the Treasury Department's tools to keep the U.S. from breaching the debt ceiling may be exhausted this summerhttps://trib.al/ZoMxg3h 

Britain will permit relatively free leisure travel to 12 nations and territories as it seeks to reopen tourism while keeping control over the coronavirus pandemichttps://trib.al/3WQg0nt 

China’s Sinopharm wins the backing of the World Health Organization for its Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for a wider rollout of the shot in countries scrambling for immunizationshttps://trib.al/IMV2uhl 

Two thirds of adults in the U.K. have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, continuing the country’s rapid rollout as it looks to reopen more of its economyhttps://trib.al/DLcpG0t 

Tanzania's new president wore masks to a meeting with prominent senior citizens, cementing an about-turn from previous government policy that denied the existence of the coronavirushttps://trib.al/Oe1FO0l 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken used a speech to the UN to issue a not-so-subtle rebuke of China’s behavior on everything from human rights to territorial disputeshttps://trib.al/2TEZYin 

People should still work from home if they can even after the coronavirus lockdown is lifted in June, U.K. government scientists sayhttps://trib.al/97CKBIl