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Haiti's top prosecutor said Tuesday he was seeking charges against Prime Minister Ariel Henry over the assassination in July of President Jovenel Moise.

The Port-au-Prince government commissioner, the equivalent of a federal prosecutor, asked the judge investigating the killing to charge Henry with involvement in the case due to alleged phone calls Henry made with one of the main suspects.

A 1970 audio recording of John Lennon singing a hitherto unpublished song during a visit to Denmark will go under the hammer in Copenhagen on September 28, the auction house said Tuesday.

The asking price for the 33-minute recording has been estimated at between 27,000 and 40,000 euros ($32,000-$47,000).

Dante Alighieri is chiefly remembered as the author of the "Divine Comedy" and as the father of the Italian language.

On the 700th anniversary of his death in the night between September 13 to 14th, 1321, here are five things to know about a titan of world literature.

President Vladimir Putin will self-isolate after coronavirus cases were detected in his inner circle, the Kremlin said Tuesday, as Russia struggles with stubbornly high Covid infection rates.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin was "absolutely healthy" and had taken a coronavirus test, without specifying the result.

Britain's Prince Andrew will contest a US court's jurisdiction over a civil suit brought by a woman who says he sexually abused her when she was a teenager, court filings showed Monday.

His lawyers will also say the prince has not been served legal papers in the case, despite claims by his accuser's legal team.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday insisted the Biden administration had prepared for worst-case scenarios in Afghanistan, as irate lawmakers accused the White House of presiding over a historic disaster.

The famously even-tempered top US diplomat stayed cool as he faced the toughest grilling of his career at the first congressional hearing on President Joe Biden's end to the 20-year war, which brought a swift victory by the Taliban.

A prominent Israeli anti-vaccination activist has died from COVID-19, a disease that he refused to believe was real even after it landed him in the hospital.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Hai Shaulian, who claimed that "there is no epidemic" and called COVID-19 vaccines "unnecessary and dangerous," died on Monday from the very virus he spent several months downplaying.

During a hearing Monday dealing with the mistakes made during the Afghanistan withdrawal, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called out former President Donald Trump's role in making things worse ahead of the evacuation.

Lieu, a former active duty Air Force colonel now serves in the reserves, cited the Feb. 29, 2020 document from Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that committed to the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He noted that on the first page of the agreement that the U.S. committed to "removing all military forces from the allies and coalition partners, including non-diplomatic civilian personnel, private security, contractors, advisers and supporting services within 14 months following announcement of this agreement."

A congressional hearing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan devolved into shouting and chaos on Monday when Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) accused Secretary of State Antony Blinken of committing treason and then refused to let him respond.

Mast started his questioning of Blinken by holding up photos of soldiers who died in Afghanistan during the withdrawal and suggesting that President Joe Biden manipulated intelligence to justify his withdrawal from the country.

Cuban scientists said Monday there was no evidence for claims of US diplomats coming down with so-called "Havana Syndrome" on the island.

The mysterious affliction is said to cause headaches, nausea and possible brain damage, and is speculated to be caused by electronic weapons possibly wielded by a US rival such as Russia.