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Guyana’s 51st independence anniversary was celebrated at D’Urban Park last night and ended with a fireworks display.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 26 others as they were driving to a monastery, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.

Ministers of the government and dignitaries at last night’s flag-raising at D’Urban Park.

One of the packed stands at D’Urban Park for last night’s flag-raising.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oil prices fell nearly 5 percent today as OPEC’s decision to extend production curbs fell short of expectations of deeper or longer cuts.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ravi Anthony was shot twice and one of his arms and legs were chopped off by his killers, who then tried to set his body afire before dumping it in a forested area in Sister’s Road, his autopsy has found.

Accused of assaulting a woman with a beer bottle, a constable was today granted $75,000 bail on the

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Deepening her split with unpopular President Nicolas Maduro’s government, Venezuela’s chief prosecutor today accused security officers of excessive force and condemned the use of military tribunals to judge protesters.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – The Manchester suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert venue packed with children had recently returned from Libya, a British minister said, and her French counterpart said he had links with Islamic State and had probably visited Syria too.

The PPP this evening condemned the government over what it said was a witch-hunting charge today against the Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) today kept up the pressure on the government over the Value Added Tax on private education.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Actor Roger Moore, who earned international fame playing British secret agent James Bond in seven movies, died of cancer today at the age of 89, his family said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A man who killed 22 people in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded concert hall in the northern English city of Manchester was named by British police today as 22-year-old Salman Abedi.

Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh was charged today with fraudulently causing or procuring valuable securities in the total sum of $4.5 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) The body of the murder victim dumped at one of the country’s tourist attractions on Saturday has been identified as Guyanese national Conrad Gittens.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – With the critical tour of England looming, chief selector Courtney Browne has said there is still no timetable for Darren Bravo’s return to the West Indies side.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – At least 19 people were killed in a blast at a concert in the English city of Manchester on Monday where U.S.

The police say that a post-mortem was done on the body of Shenika Elliot London today and the cause of death was given as “multiple incised wounds’’.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran accused the United States on Monday of selling arms to “dangerous terrorists” in the Middle East and of spreading “Iranophobia” aimed at encouraging Arab states to purchase arms, state television reported.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump urged Arab and Islamic leaders today to unite and do their share to defeat Islamist extremists, making an impassioned plea to “drive out” terrorists while toning down his own harsh rhetoric about Muslims.