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  UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly today suspended Russia from the U.N.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine stepped up calls today for financial sanctions crippling enough to force Moscow to end the war as its officials rushed to evacuate civilians from cities and towns in the east before an anticipated major Russian offensive there.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled today that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional and called for lawmakers to return in two days, a decision that could spell the end of his premiership.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Inter-American Development Bank directors have met to discuss accusations in an anonymous email that the bank’s president, Mauricio Claver-Carone, carried out an intimate relationship with a staffer, three sources said.

(Reuters) – Russia is facing its most difficult situation in three decades due to unprecedented Western sanctions, but foreign attempts to isolate it from the global economy will fail, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said today.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – Yemen’s president delegated power to a presidential council and dismissed his deputy today in moves aimed at supporting U.N.-led

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean countries yesterday came in for high commendation from the US South Command for condemning the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken yesterday told his Regional Commanders to “put your houses in order” by Monday in order to effectively serve the nation, according to a statement yesterday from the Guyana Police Force.

After months of speculation and intrigue in APNU+AFC, Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence are to be sworn in as MPs on Wednesday and this will pave the way for the former to be elected as Opposition Leader.

A 49-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the murder of truck driver, Pitamber Sharma who was strangled allegedly during a misunderstanding at his workplace last week.

A sub-committee of CARICOM Heads is to meet with the two regional nominees for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General (SG) amid another embarrassing division in the community over foreign policy.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack SC has decried the outmoded paper-based system still being used for the filing of cases and made an appeal for a digital transformation.

Opposition Parliamentary Chief Whip Christopher Jones and Trade Unionist Norris Witter, have filed an action challenging last December’s passage of the controversial Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill.

A special investigation by the Auditor General’s office on procurement procedures within the Region Six, East Berbice-Corentyne Regional Democratic Council revealed that the Region’s engineer during 2018 utilised information from a bidding contractor to prepare the Engineer’s Estimate.

An Ulverston, Corentyne fisherman is feared dead after he reportedly fell overboard while fishing in the Corentyne River on Monday evening.

An Interim Management Committee was this month set up to manage the Linden Utility Cooperative Society Limited (LUCSL).

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers yesterday conducted an intelligence-led operation at 259 Indepen-dence Boulevard, La Penitence, which resulted in the discovery of one 9mm Glock 17 pistol with a magazine containing four 9mm rounds.

Two persons were yesterday charged with assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and behaving disorderly in public.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is targeting early 2023 for the operationalization of the first World Trade Center in the CARICOM region, according to the company’s Executive Chairman Komal Samaroo.

Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the temporary rental by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) of a (60,000 to 80,000 sq ft) compound situated within Houston to Providence, East Bank Demerara, for storage of goods.