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(Trinidad Express) A Laventille mother is today torn between joy and sorrow, as two of her three daughters who went missing last Thursday are back home.

KANO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano today, a witness said.

(Trinidad Express) An early morning attack yesterday left one man dead and another man, a foreigner, being treated for gunshot wounds.

QUETTA, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found dumped by the roadside today in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said.

(Trinidad Express) The spoils of exploration for two of the country’s deep water blocks, which were put up for bid just last week, are threatening a conflict between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A man accused of being a rapist was beaten and stabbed to death by an angry mob in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The quiet of the Ferniehurst, Black Rock, St Michael district was shattered just after midday today when neighbours learnt of the unnatural death of one of their own.

(Trinidad Guardian) CL Financial chairman Gerald Yetming said yesterday that the Government will soon be making a claim to the conglomerate for the cost of the January 2009 intervention and will request an extension of the three-year Shareholders’ Agreement to allow the negotiations for the claim, expected to be more than TT$10 billion, to be concluded.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Contractors Association has objected to the proposed award to build the new UWI South Campus project at Debe to foreign firm China Jiangsu International Economic Technical Corp.

(Trinidad Express) Government may decide to give jurisdiction to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) for constitutional appeals on criminal matters, particularly murder cases.

(Trinidad Express) Relatives of three teenage sisters who disappeared from their Laventille home on Thursday afternoon are seeking the public’s assistance in locating them.

(Trinidad Express) Members of one of the most dangerous gangs in the world, MS-13, are currently in this country working on construction sites, says Opposition MP Dr Amery Browne.

Police say that at about 0740h yesterday, the body of a so far unidentified man was found at the foreshore at No.56 Village, Corentyne, with the scalp missing and other injuries to the body.

(Jamaica Observer) Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Prof E Nigel Harris has dismissed suggestions that Jamaica or any other country in the region should pull out of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and pursue its development on its own.

(Jamaica Observer) Contractor General Greg Christie has labelled the Administration’s establishment of an Independent Oversight Panel (IOP) to oversee three major projects “as a brazen but futile attempt to usurp, undermine and circumvent the lawful government contract monitoring authority and mandate” of his office.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The Dutch Lower House rejected all three resolution submitted by the Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) on Suriname.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) resident representative, Robert Fuderich, has given Jamaica a less-than-impressive grade for efforts made to satisfy the requirements of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Several prominent attorneys yesterday welcomed a move by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to create a new post that will have responsibility for streamlining criminal prosecutions involving the police.

(Trinidad Newsday) The 25-year-old suspect  being sought in connection with the brutal murder of Nikita Ramischand, 18, the  daughter of prominent attorney Odai Ramischand fled Trinidad five hours after he  is alleged to have killed the teen.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Gunmen in inflatable dinghies attacked a military unit on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, state media said today, the first seaborne assault in a 13-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.