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HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Finland will send weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said today, in a shift of policy.

FRANKFURT/VIENNA/SARAJEVO, (Reuters) – The European arm of Sberbank SBER.MM, Russia’s biggest lender, faces failure, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned today, after a run on its deposits sparked by the backlash from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

KYIV/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian artillery bombarded residential districts of Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv today, with Moscow facing increasing international isolation as talks to resolve the conflict failed to make a breakthrough.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said today it was taking further measures against Russia in concert with the United States and European Union, effectively cutting off Moscow’s major financial institutions from Western financial markets.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich, who owns Premier League club Chelsea, has accepted a Ukrainian request to help negotiate an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, his spokeswoman said.

(Trinidad Express) Christopher Boodram lived because he was the last man to be pulled into the darkness of the undersea pipeline.

 (Trinidad Express) Imran “GI” Beharry has done it again. He is the 2022 Chutney Soca Monarch champion.

A consortium of local accounting and auditing firms has expressed concern that after submitting a bid to audit cost oil only one firm has been listed by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board as having submitted a bid.

The naturalised Chinese man and tenant of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo who is at the centre of bribery allegations by US-based network VICE Media, has a number of businesses here and they include construction, fuel, large scale lumber and quarrying operations.

Well-known businessman John Simon de Freitas has passed away in Madeira, Portugal at the age of 81, his family has confirmed.

The Ministry of Housing’s CH&PA has issued an invitation for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for housing developments on the East Bank and East Coast of Demerara, even as sources revealed that over 4,000 hectares of the former East Demerara Estate’s plantation lands have been assigned to the ministry.

During his February 1, 2022 interview with the US-based VICE Media Group, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, in rejecting allegations of collecting bribes from Chinese businesses, invited the reporter to check his submissions to the Integrity Commission to determine whether he is corrupt or not.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil XOM.N likely will face new pressure to severe ties with Russia’s largest oil producer, said analysts, after rival BP agreed to unload a Rosneft stake.

The search team scouring a section of the Atlantic Ocean for the three missing Noble House Seafood fishermen and their vessel have zeroed in on the possible location, Maritime Administration Director of Safety, Captain John Flores says.

President Irfaan Ali departed Guyana yesterday to attend the Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize.

KYIV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert yesterday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities.

A Belle Plaine, Wakenaam,  Region Three man is counting his losses after his house and business went up in flames yesterday.

Up to Friday, the Ministry of Public Health reported that 431,597 of adult Guyanese have had a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – NATO member Turkey changed its rhetoric to call Russia’s assault on Ukraine a “war” on Sunday and pledged to implement parts of an international pact that would potentially limit the transit of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently achieved what Western allies have long struggled to do: get Germany to step up to its role as a major global power with an assertive foreign policy backed by a strong military despite its World War guilt.