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BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Western leaders showcased their unity against Russia’s war in Ukraine today, with Washington seeking more military aid for Kyiv, NATO assigning more troops to its eastern flank and London imposing fresh sanctions against Moscow.

BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, the Biden administration announced today, after a month of bombardments touched off Europe’s fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The Taliban yesterday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to reopen.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness told Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate on Wednesday his country wants to be a republic and address “unresolved” issues, a day after protesters called on the United Kingdom to pay reparations for slavery.

(Trinidad Guardian) Foreign Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Robert Persaud says Guyana needs 100,000 additional workers and a call has gone out for Guyanese diaspora to consider returning home to build their country.

Gang violence appeared to escalate in T&T this year following the death of a known gang leader– causing power struggles among gangs – an alliance between conventional street gangs and “hired” employees and a merger among gangs involved in white-collar crime.

Guyanese business professor and accountant, Floyd Haynes will soon be granted a licence to operate a merchant bank here and he hopes that small businesses, especially, will have an alternative to accessing finance, even as the bank targets the wider and emerging large-business sector.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that government has approved a further reduction on the excise tax on gasoline and diesel.

An East Canje Berbice man died while another is in serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after they were struck by a canter while on a motorcycle along the New Amsterdam Public Road on Tuesday evening.

A doctor and a retired Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer were arrested by the police yesterday afternoon as the probe into the alleged theft of an undisclosed amount of pharmaceutical products and other medical supplies from the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) drugs bond in Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) continues.

Three men were arrested on Tuesday following the discovery of $6.3 million worth of cannabis at Diamond, New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

As the probe into the disappearance of Rohan Mangra, the US-based Guyanese who was found in a city hotel days after he was reported missing widens, investigators have arrested his sister and brother-in-law.

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge has said that any inconsistency by Guyana in its treatment of laws—local and international—would affect its search for support among the international community and also has far-reaching implications for its border controversy with Venezuela which is currently before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

High Court Judge Franklyn Holder has ordered the  Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) to reinstate licenses to Atlantic Fuels Inc (AFI) to allow its continued importation and trade of fuel.

A Linden customs officer, who allegedly stabbed his wife several times during an argument over the weekend was on Tuesday charged with attempted murder and remanded to prison.

Pomeroon resident Richard Mohammed, who a year ago chopped a woman, severing several of her fingers in the process, is currently awaiting sentencing, after admitting guilt yesterday morning.

LVIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine/ BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s leader called for solidarity on Thursday, a month since Russia’s invasion began, warning he would see who sells out at summits in Europe where bolstering sanctions and NATO is planned but restrictions on energy could prove divisive.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two then rose to become the first female U.S.

The decision to remove the Warrau migrants from the community of Kabakaburi, Region Two and relocate them to a camp in Region One was taken to “protect them from exploitation” according to a government source close to the issue.

Police in Region Six are collaborating with ranks in Region Ten as they continue to investigate the murder of robbery accused Kwame Bhagwandin, who succumbed after he was brutally beaten in Kimbia, Berbice River.