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DHAKA (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the US embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh’s capital yesterday, police said.

A miner was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he had just over three pounds of cannabis in his possession.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday shot down one of the opposition’s main tactics to oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro with a ruling that any constitutional amendment to reduce the presidential term could not be retroactive.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Desperately seeking an antidote to a rapidly aging population, Japanese policymakers are exploring ways to bring in more foreign workers without calling it an “immigration policy”.

One of the two prisoners who were hospitalised after an altercation at the Camp Street jail on Sunday evening remains admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital in stable condition.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest opposition party is divided over how strongly to back a new interim government if it succeeds in having President Dilma Rousseff stripped of office, as it eyes a run at the presidency in 2018, senior members said yesterday.

Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) will be officially requesting a meeting with Minister of State Joseph Harmon today, according to its President Trevor Thomas.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos named a new cabinet yesterday to strengthen his government as peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels enter their final phase and as the economy struggles with slumping oil revenue and increasing inflation.

LIMA (Reuters) – A palm oil industry body yesterday ordered a member company with a 5,000 hectare (12,355 acre) concession in Peru to stop developing new plantations until it can prove it has not cleared any primary forest.

The government through its Department of Public Information (DPI) this evening rejected accusations from the Guyana Press Association that it was interfering in the state media.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Cricket’s governing body, the International Cricket Council, has blasted the behaviour of some members the West Indies team following the final of the Twenty20 World Cup in India earlier this month.

The taxi driver, whose car was used to transport murdered Sophia woman, Simone Hackett, was today charged with murder and remanded to prison.

Fifteen soldiers today turned out at D’Urban Park and will be supporting the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s (MPI) Special Projects Unit (SPU) for the duration of the agency’s work.

Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred about 0330h.

About 0830h. today, the police say that Donald Mc Kenzie, 24 years, of Sandy Place, Kitty, was walking along William Street, Kitty, when two men on a motor cycle rode up and the pillion rider discharged rounds at him, hitting Mc Kenzie to his right hand and they escaped.

(Trinidad Guardian) The head of the local Roman Catholic Church Archbishop Joseph Harris is leading a petition seeking to “free” remand prisoners who have been behind bars longer than the maximum prison term they would have gotten if they had been found guilty of their crimes.

Almost four years after the brutal murders of Anna Catherina businesswoman Jennifer Persaud and her two young sons, police have arrested a man who has reportedly confessed to the crime after his wife, tired of the constant abuse she suffered at his hands, tipped off the police.

With a representative currently in Côte d’Ivoire to analyse the airport security systems there manned by a private firm, government says it continues to undertake due diligence as it mulls the privatisation of the security at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

About 2000h last night, the police say that Raphael Armstrong called “Scar”, 32 years, of Friendship, EBD, who was armed with an unlicensed firearm, and another man entered the home of a shop-keeper at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway and confronted him and his son in an attempted robbery during which a scuffle ensued between the shop-keeper and Armstrong.

Representatives of miners operating at Marudi in the Rupununi have agreed to halt hard rock excavations and only process ore they have stockpiled following a mediation exercise in Lethem over the weekend.