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HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Three people were wounded, one critically, today when gunfire erupted during an altercation between two people on a community college campus near Houston, police said, the latest in a series of shootings on U.S.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council today unanimously condemned North Korea’s December rocket launch and expanded existing U.N.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia,  CMC-President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dr.

U.S. Ambassador to Guyana D. Brent Hardt welcomed guests on Monday from Guyana’s government, private sector, civil society, and diplomatic community to share in the historic, second Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

A  Guyanese man is one of three persons scheduled to go on trial in the Dutch Caribbean island of St Maarten for the murder of a couple from South Carolina, US.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s bespectacled and shaven-headed information minister stands solemnly at the microphone to impart the latest news on President Hugo Chavez’s cancer.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs leaked from a chemicals factory in northwest France and drifted across the English Channel as far as London today.

NIAMEY/BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Chadian forces advanced towards the Mali border today as an African troop deployment and a U.S.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Association (TTCA) is seeking the assistance of the government to retain the services of its Indian Premier League (IPL) players for the 2013 Champions league T20.

GT&T customers in the Catherine, East Coast area were last evening left without internet service following a vehicular accident at Airy Hall, Mahaicony which damaged a GT&T pole and burnt the attached telephone cable.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland,  CMC- Former president of the Dominica Football Association (DFA) Patrick John has dropped his appeal against a two-year FIFA ban in the bribery case involving Mohamed Bin Hammam.

SYDNEY, Australia,  CMC-West Indies middle order batsman Marlon Samuels has accused Australian legend Shane Warne of going “overboard” in a “desperate” attempt to unsettle him during an ugly confrontation in the Big Bash League.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is undergoing physical therapy to hasten his return home after he underwent cancer surgery in Cuba last month, Bolivian President Evo Morales said today.

Opposition Leader David Granger is to move a motion on Friday for the setting up of a National Heritage Commission which would promote national appreciation for the “diverse cultural strains which enrich society”.

In February, the Universal Peace Federation (UPF)  of which Guyana and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are members, will be observing Foundation Day with members convening in Guyana for the first time under the chairmanship of Reverend Dong-Mo Shin, the Government Information Agency said.

Many in Linden were in shock at the recent news of the tragic death of a Wisroc Housing Scheme, Wismar man who resided in Queens, New York.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has issued a warning that there is no bigger threat to the future viability of tourism in the region than crime.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova’s biggest challenge to achieving her second Australian Open title, apart from Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams, could actually be between her ears.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic showed no signs of any lasting fatigue to overcome Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych 6-1 4-6 6-1 6-4 on Tuesday and advance to the Australian Open semi-finals.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Three blasts, including a suicide bomber attack near an army base, killed least 17 people across Baghdad today, the latest violence as Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki faces increasing pressure from a political crisis.