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MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel today over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have opened an investigation into the $2 billion loan scandal which tipped Mozambique into a debt crisis, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said today.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said today it is planning to bring criminal proceedings against a Barrick Gold Corp joint venture over what it says was an attempt to illegally export $13 million in silver and gold to Australia.

GECOM today recounted 83 ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections, according to Commissioner Sase Gunraj.

PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo today condemned a statement last night by APNU+AFC that the March 2nd general elections were not credible because of an alleged high incidence of fraud.

The Ministry of Education today advised that schools will reopen from Monday June 8th 2020 to teachers and auxiliary staff who shall prepare the schools according to the Public Health protocols outlined in the Gazetted and published examination order.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to data collected by a national association of first peoples.

 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has selected five companies, including Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Pfizer Inc, as the most likely candidates to produce a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing senior officials.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed to be dead and an imprisoned German child abuser is the murder suspect, a German prosecutor said on Thursday McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz.

GECOM recounted 84 ballot boxes today which means that there are only 326 boxes of 2,339 left to process.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden should have done more to combat the coronavirus, the epidemiologist behind a national strategy that avoided the strict lockdowns seen in many other countries said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 50,000 today, according to a Reuters tally of official data sources that highlighted the country’s place as one of the worst hit in the world.

(Reuters) – West Indies named a 14-man squad for next month’s proposed three-test series in England, with three players refusing to travel due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the region’s cricket board (CWI) said today.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Commission classified the new coronavirus as a mid-level threat to workers, drawing criticism from socialist lawmakers because the move will allow less stringent workplace safety measures than if the virus was deemed a high risk.

GECOM today recounted 93 ballot boxes, according to Commissioner Sase Gunraj.

The Ministry of Education has announced that the delayed National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) will be held on July 1st and 2nd, 2020.

The government today announced that the COVID-19 Emergency Measures (No.3) published in the Gazette 29th April 2020 and effective until June 3rd 2020 have been extended to 17th June 2020.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The European Union is “shocked and appalled” by the death of black American George Floyd in police custody, the bloc’s top diplomat said today, calling it “an abuse of power” and warning against further excessive use of force.

 (Reuters) – Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has urged cricket’s global governing body and its member nations to speak out against social injustice following the death of an African-American man in U.S.

WASHINGTON/MINNEAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – At least five U.S. police were hit by gunfire during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, police and media said, hours after President Donald Trump said he would deploy the military if unrest does not stop.