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THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda today to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers.

Government cannot commit to public servants receiving a bonus this year as its current status restricts  spending, President David Granger this morning said.

Three new parties on the scene: ANUG, FED-UP and TNM have pledged not to support either of the two main parties: PPP/C and PNCR in the upcoming general elections.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland said he knew that the Trump administration withheld nearly $400 million in American aid while pressuring Ukraine to investigate President Donald Trump’s political rivals, according to an excerpt of his testimony released today.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 13 protesters in the past 24 hours, abandoning weeks of comparative restraint to unleash live gunfire in a bid to crush demonstrations against the political parties that control the government.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has named his main political rival as his “drugs tsar” after she criticised the high death toll his anti-narcotics campaign has caused, but her camp dismissed the offer as a gimmick.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two U.S. diplomats told lawmakers the State Department was being used for domestic political purposes under President Donald Trump and warned that would hurt American interests, according to transcripts released yesterday from Congress’ impeachment investigation.

Several armed men last evening attempted to rob a moneychanger at Number 69 Village, Corentyne and one of them may have been wounded.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – A U.S. envoy denounced Chinese “intimidation” in the South China Sea at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders today and said they should not be bullied into giving up their resources by what he compared to a conquest.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong anti-government protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police today during which a man with a knife slashed several people and apparently bit off part of a local politician’s ear.

The main sugar union, GAWU today expressed concern about the reported sale of assets belonging to the shuttered Sheldon sugar estate.

Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) today announced that it completed the acquisition of seven Scotiabank operations in the Caribbean yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives took a major step in the impeachment effort against U.S.

(Field Level Media) Ricky Rubio hit two of Phoenix’s five 3-pointers in a 21-0, first-quarter run Wednesday as the Suns ran away from Golden State 121-110 in San Francisco on a night when the Warriors lost Stephen Curry to a broken left hand.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – A fire swept through a Pakistani train today, killing 73 people and injuring nearly 40 after a gas canister that passengers were using to cook breakfast exploded, the minister of railways said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson answered questions today about the oil major’s methods of measuring potential costs of climate change, as he testified in a closely watched civil lawsuit accusing the company of hiding the costs from investors.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain’s information rights regulator said on Wednesday.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Thou­sands of dri­vers were af­fect­ed yes­ter­day as Unipet’s 21 ser­vice sta­tions across the coun­try re­mained closed when deal­ers sought to send a mes­sage to the Gov­ern­ment that the prof­its they were mak­ing were way too low for them to con­sid­er stay­ing in busi­ness.

Shane Morgan, called ‘Demon,’ and three other men were remanded to prison this afternoon after being charged with the murder of gold miner Deon Stoll, who was shot and killed two weeks ago after armed bandits attempted to rob him outside El Dorado Trading in Newtown, Kitty.

 (Reuters) – Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan was banned from all cricket for two years with one year of that suspended on Tuesday, after the all-rounder was found to have breached the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption code.