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BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina and the International Monetary Fund said yesterday they reached an agreement for a three-year, $50 billion standby lending arrangement, which the government said it sought to provide a safety net and avoid the frequent crises of the country’s past.

Businessman Dereck Jaisingh now faces a retrial after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict in the case against him for allegedly attempting to murder two men in 2014.

PAHOA, Hawaii,  (Reuters) – Approximately 600 homes have been destroyed by lava flows on Hawaii’s Big Island since the current eruption of Kilaeua Volcano began early last month, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said on Thursday.

Two more persons testified yesterday when the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Matthew Munroe, the man accused of murdering school teacher Kescia Branche, continued.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation yesterday that would roll back an agreement President Donald Trump’s administration announced to ease sanctions on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp.

Karen Small, the mother of the young Mae’s student at the centre of the recent culture day controversy, has deemed the school’s apology a “good step going forward.”

Former murder accused Kevin France was yesterday cleared of two robbery charges after a city magistrate found that the police failed to prove their case against him.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s Senate yesterday voted to legalize recreational marijuana, clearing a major hurdle that puts the country on track to become the first Group of Seven nation to permit national use of the drug.

At the trial of Vishwantie Ragnauth and Nyron Thakurdyal, who are charged with murdering Sunil Ramsundar, a policeman yesterday recounted giving the two accused a lift and hearing one of them speaking about having stabbed someone.

(Trinidad Express) The leadership of the Masjid ul Mattaqeen has distanced itself from the discovery of arms and ammunition found hidden in the ceiling of its mosque at Monroe Road, Cunupia, yesterday.

SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala,  (Reuters) – The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano was temporarily suspended yesterday due to dangerous conditions for rescue workers, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to 109, authorities said.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group’s 42-year history, as U.S.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters yesterday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.

(Reuters) – A 500-year-old copy of a letter in which Christopher Columbus describes his voyage to the Americas has been returned to Spain after U.S.

(Barbados Nation) Massy Distribution (Barbados) Ltd., on behalf of Regal Products Limited, the manufacturer for Regal products out of Trinidad and Tobago, has issued a voluntary recall for Regal Glucose – 225 grammes.

Following the circulation of a video showing dozens of children packed into a bus “like sardines”, the police have slapped a series of charges against a driver and a conductor.

The police in Berbice two days ago arrested one of the key suspects in the April 27 piracy attack off of Suriname which left four fishermen dead and around twelve missing.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil is seeking buyers for its stake in a large undeveloped gas field off Tanzania, according to three banking and industry sources, as the company focuses on the development of an even bigger project in neighbouring Mozambique.

A Glasgow, East Bank Berbice man murdered his wife and daughter yesterday morning and then hung himself.

The continuous deterioration of the Linden-Lethem Road is said to be hampering the flow of money in the Region, as financial hardships have fallen on various sectors in the Rupununi.