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SEOUL/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – South Korean and Japanese jets joined exercises with two supersonic U.S.

A Neighbourhood Democratic Council member believes that there are discrepancies between the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission’s records and the actual ground measurements at the East Bank Essequibo village of Farm, which has led to the unfair allocation of lots.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said late yesterday  it would suspend action on a decree opening a vast section of the Amazon rainforest to mining, backtracking in the face of activist criticism and a legal challenge.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Irma yesterday strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane over the eastern Atlantic and was headed towards the Caribbean, the U.S.

A former policeman was remanded to prison on Tuesday after he was charged with harbouring two of the prisoners who escaped from the Camp Street jail during the July 9 breakout.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Climate change – not increased use of cell phones – might be to blame for an unusual spike in road deaths that hit the United States two years ago, said a study published yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Police investigators are probing the apparent murder of designer Dexter Pottinger whose body has been found in his home.

Nigel Dodson, who is accused of killing an eight-month-old in a fire caused by arson in Kaneville Housing Scheme, was today committed to stand trial for the crime.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – An 117-year-old condemned building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai today after torrential rains this week, killing at least 22 people, with about 10 other people feared trapped, police and fire official said.

(Reuters) – Irma has strengthened over the eastern Atlantic to become the fourth hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S.

The remains of the Astor Cinema crumbled just before midday today after weeks of haphazard dismantling of the iconic movie house, the last of its kind in the city.

  COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – International cocaine smugglers are increasingly turning to Sri Lankan as a transit hub in Asia, authorities say, after they made a series of seizures of the drug, some smuggled in containers of sugar from Brazil.

In the wake of three crashes and the deaths of two pilots, all shuttle flights in Guyana’s interior have been suspended with immediate effect until domestic airlines submit policies and procedures on such operations for approval.

President David Granger yesterday said that the public must be kept informed about developments in the oil sector so that civil society does not think that there is “some underhand relationship” with ExxonMobil.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is set to challenge moves to sell what was to be a posh housing estate on the East Bank of Demerara which had been connected to the controversial Chinese logging company, Baishanlin but the appointed receiver says the authority has no locus standi.

A Williamsburg handyman was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge when he appeared at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court.

Persons whose visas have been approved by the United States Embassy will no longer utilise the DHL service pickup, as the Embassy has established its own CSRA Document Service Center for this purpose.

Prominent attorney and partner in the law firm Hughes, Fields and Stoby, Richard ‘Dickie’ Berkeley Fields passed away last Saturday.

A woman was yesterday granted bail after she was charged with leaking nude photos of her ex-boyfriend, which has affected him both physically and psychologically.

Two witnesses appearing yesterday before the commission of inquiry (CoI) into land matters, pointed to the lack of action by the relevant agencies when it comes to the removal of squatters.