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BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer denied yesterday allegations that he sought campaign funds for his party stemming from a graft scheme at state oil company Petrobras, implicating him in the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp asked a federal court yesterday to throw out a subpoena that would force the oil company to hand over decades of documents as part of a wide-ranging inquiry into whether it misled investors about climate change risks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at the White House on Wednesday despite a warning by China that it would damage diplomatic relations.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces have arrested at least 400 people after the latest bout of looting and food riots in the crisis-hit OPEC member country, local officials said yesterday.

Members of the Guyana Police Force stationed aboard the M.B. Tamakay, the $100m floating command base at the mouth of the Waini River, North West District were on Saturday paid a courtesy call by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo who led a team of government officials on a tour of the vessel.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – Police divers yesterday recovered the body of a 2-year-old boy who was grabbed by an alligator in front of his family during a vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – The Bolivian government rejected yesterday a donation of hens offered by U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer yesterday proposed a constitutional amendment to limit public spending growth for up to 20 years, one of the most far-reaching fiscal reforms in decades designed to curb a runaway rise in public debt.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Vandals have desecrated the tomb of Romulo Gallegos, a revered former president and author of Venezuela’s most famous novel “Dona Barbara,” his family said on yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – South Africa defeated West Indies by 139 runs in the sixth game of the Tri-Nations Series at Warner Park here today.

Three men were today remanded to prison after they were charged in connection with the grenade that was lobbed at the vehicle of the owner of Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall.

Amid widening criticism, Town Clerk Royston King today said that a city team in Mexico City is being presented with the final rollout schedule of the parking meters project.

(Trinidad Guardian) The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, which left some 49 dead, is not only a threat to the US but also to T&T.

Amid an increasing outcry over a clandestine contract for parking meters in the city, Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday said that a more competitive process to select the contractor for the project should have been undertaken even as he pointed out that the city would be making a major investment.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority Myrna Pitt has resigned from her post.

Guyana has identified its new High Commissioner to India in the person of Dr David Pollard.

Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday afternoon unearthed 1,275 pounds of marijuana which was hidden in a container that had recently arrived from Jamaica.

Chaos broke out yesterday afternoon at the St Stanislaus College as irate parents of students of the Brickdam Secondary School objected to the Ministry of Education’s decision to shut down the institution and relocate the students and teachers to different schools around the city.

A young Bartician was yesterday charged with the murder of Madewini mechanic Puranand Baljit and remanded to prison after appearing at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A Berbice-born woman, who returned to Guyana from the United States for the Jubilee celebrations, is now stranded here as on her way out last Saturday, her passport was misplaced after she handed it over to two check-in agents at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.