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MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s former king Juan Carlos has gone to the Dominican Republic after leaving his home country under a cloud of scandal, Spanish newspapers said today.

LONDON/BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina said today it had reached a deal with three creditor groups to restructure $65 billion in sovereign debt, potentially helping it climb out of a damaging default and revive the recession-hit economy.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela capital Caracas’ largest produce market is at the centre of a worsening COVID-19 outbreak, but cash-strapped merchants refuse to stop hawking food there for the city’s 5 million residents, many of whom are starving.

Congratulating Irfaan Ali on his election as President, the US-based Carter Center today urged the new government to reach across the divide and move swiftly on electoral and constitutional reforms.

President Irfaan Ali this morning met with the Heads of the Departments of the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP).

BUENOS AIRES/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A battle is brewing for control of Latin America’s main development bank.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization warned today that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a “silver bullet” for COVID-19, and the road to normality would be long.

On June 11, 1963, at the height of civil rights unrest in the United States not unlike what it is experiencing today, then President John F Kennedy uttered the following words in an announcement calling for nationwide participation in addressing what he described as the moral crisis: “In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.”

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland today congratulated President Irfaan Ali on his swearing in yesterday and reaffirmed the group’s commitment to support the people of Guyana in the strengthening of democratic and inclusive governance.

Mohamed Irfaan Ali, 40,  was today declared the 9th Executive President of Guyana by GECOM Chairperson, Claudette Singh.

President David Granger today signalled that an election petition will be filed, a likely sign that APNU+AFC has accepted that GECOM’s declaration will be the result recount which shows a win for the PPP/C.

Government-appointed GECOM commissioners suggested at a meeting of GECOM today that President David Granger and PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo meet on the way forward as the recount tabulation was “not acceptable”.

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday confirmed Guyana’s 21st COVID-19 fatality.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The death toll in Latin America from the novel coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday night, a Reuters tally showed, underlining the region’s status as one of the global epicenters of the pandemic that is testing governments to the limit.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah has been admitted to hospital after catching the coronavirus, he said on Sunday, becoming the most senior politician in the country to test positive for the disease.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday announced the arrival of interCaribbean Airways to Barbados, with flights expected to start from August 4.

A shooting at a night club in Garnett Street has left one person dead and at least four others injured.

Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 have been reported today, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers has denounced growing attacks on the judiciary, judicial officers and female attorneys.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Facebook said today it has put a global block on certain accounts controlled by supporters of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro implicated in a fake news inquiry, a day after it was fined for not complying with a Supreme Court judge’s order to do so.