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(US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations press release) WASHINGTON — Today, U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Weighing in on the raging debate surrounding the recent Privy Council quashing of Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer’s murder conviction, former Prime Minister Patterson and his colleague King’s Counsel Hugh Small said the decision taken to proceed with the trial after the jury-tampering incident “was not merely a risk but a fatal error”.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – The United States is pressing Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, to drop plans to buy a 1.5 billion euro ($1.6 billion)industrial stake of a Russian tycoon, several people with direct knowledge of the talks said.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel’s military said today it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – Leo Varadkar said today he would step down as Ireland’s prime minister and the leader of the governing Fine Gael party, in a surprise move which he said was for both personal and political reasons.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Acting House Leader and the minister responsible for gender, Olivia Grange, says Opposition Leader Mark Golding has brought the House of Representatives into disrepute by questioning the election of Juliet Holness as House Speaker.

(Reuters) – Fast bowling sensation Shamar Joseph should be fast-tracked into the West Indies squad for the home T20 World Cup in June, said former captain Chris Gayle.

Former manager of the New Building Society (NBS), Maurice Arjoon, who was found to have been wrongfully dismissed, is entitled only to the full payment of pension amounting to some $59 million and not severance benefits as well.

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Department is currently investigating an industrial accident that occurred on March 13, 2024, at Pritipaul Singh Investments, located at Wharf Area, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

The police say that are investigating the murder of Marcus Adrian, a 36-year-old logger of Hururu Mission, Upper Berbice River, which occurred on 2024-03-18 at about 12:30hrs at 7 Mile,  Hururu Mission.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Amnesty International criticised a leaked draft of Saudi Arabia’s first penal code today, saying it would codify practices ranging from flogging to gender discrimination and urging changes to align it with international standards.

 (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police indicted the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro for suspected fraud on his vaccination records, two sources related to the matter said on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called for a total repeal of the Property Tax Amendment Act.

Ashanti Liverpool of Dazzell Housing Scheme  was shot and killed early this morning reportedly by her twin sister’s ex boyfriend.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM/LONDON, (Reuters) – Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona paid $1.3 million for the rental of a luxury vehicle to transport Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, following a motor-vehicle crash that disabled the 2023 BMW X6 assigned to him.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Western governments lined up today to condemn Vladimir Putin’s landslide election victory as unfair and undemocratic, but China and North Korea congratulated the veteran Russian leader on extending his rule by a further six years.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol today called fake news and disinformation based on AI and digital technology threats to democracy, as some officials attending a global summit accused Russia and China of conducting malicious propaganda campaigns.

KABUL/ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban said today that Pakistan carried out two air strikes on its territory, killing five women and three children, and it fired heavy weapons at Pakistani forces along the border in retaliation.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Hundreds in Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago, engaged in a rare public protest yesterday, according to social media and official reports, prompting Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to call for dialogue in an “atmosphere of tranquility and peace.”