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MARRAKECH, Morocco,  (Reuters) – World powers sympathetic to Syria’s uprising against President Bashar al-Assad gave full political recognition today to the opposition, reflecting a hardening consensus that the 20-month-old uprising might be nearing a tipping point.

(Trinidad Express) A 36-year-old mother of three was yesterday chopped to death at her Tobago home by her ex-lover—who then killed himself.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California yesterday, his family said.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – North Korea launched a rocket today and the missile appears to have passed over Okinawa, Japan’s government said.

The Government of Guyana today released a document which it has presented to the international community in which it says that Guyana is “under threat” because of the policies and postures of the opposition.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush has been released from police custody on overnight bail.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Late disco queen Donna Summer and hip hop pioneers Public Enemy headed a list of eight new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation said today.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – Cricket fans will get the golden opportunity to secure their favourite seats for the Caribbean T20 2013 when tickets go on sale later this month.

Police said that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 1900h yesterday at Atlantic Ville Public Road, ECD, and which resulted in the death of  conductor Rodwin Todd, 25 years of Surat Drive, B/V, ECD and injuries to passengers Natasha Chance, 34 years of Ogle, ECD; Genevieve Carberry, 56 years of Plantain Walk, B/V, ECD; Prudence Thornhill, 19 years, of Vryheid Lust, ECD; Wishenna Charles, 77 years, of Triumph, ECD; and Adiyan Corbin, 21 years, of Triumph, ECD.

Police said that at about 0940h yesterday, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch at the Ogle Airport, ECD, acting upon information received, conducted a search on the cargo belonging to Anthony Thompson, 29 years, of Independence Boulevard, La Penitence who was on a local flight to Imbaimadai, Mazaruni.

Guyana and the US are to sign an air transportation agreement which will replace the one that has been in effect since 1946 via an agreement between Washington and the United Kingdom.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica on Monday became the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport, following an unanimous and final vote from Congress.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knew about and used funds from a far-reaching vote-buying scheme to pay for personal expenses, according to testimony by a convicted former consultant to the ruling Workers’ Party.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – A new museum devoted to ABBA may attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Swedish capital but that does not mean the four members of the super group will ever reunite, at least on stage, former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus said.

(Reuters) – Cayman Islands’ Premier McKeeva Bush was detained by police today in connection with a series of police investigations in the normally tranquil offshore financial center, authorities said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) American Airlines (AA) has reportedly paid out millions of dollars in damages to several persons who were injured when one of its aircraft crashed in Kingston almost three years ago.

(Barbados Nation) The European Union (EU) has no plans to withhold aid from Barbados if it refuses to decriminalize buggery.

(Trinidad Express) Charges are yet to be laid in the case of the suspect who bit chunks off a baby’s cheek and leg on Sunday at an East Dry River home.

(Trinidad Express) Two fishermen were shot and killed in the Sea Lots area yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) Gene Dziadyk, former chief executive officer (CEO) of CLICO, had a US$2.3 million Executive Flexible Premium Annuity (EFPA) with the insurance giant that attracted an interest rate of 75 per cent.