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ASTANA, (Reuters) – International experts are investigating the sudden deaths of more than 100,000 endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, officials said Wednesday, raising fears that a species that has been around since the Ice Age may be at risk of dying out.

(Reuters) – Nebraska became the first Republican-dominated state in more than 40 years to abolish capital punishment as legislators overrode the governor’s veto of a bill repealing the death penalty.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Peruvian rape victims who have become pregnant have no legal option but to keep an unwanted pregnancy after Congress voted against a bill to legalise abortion in such cases, an issue that has divided ordinary Peruvians.

Minister of Education with responsibility for Sport, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine has described the ‘sacking’ of veteran Guyanese batsmen Shivnarine Chanderpaul from the West Indies cricket team as ‘distressing’.

(Trinidad Express) Jack Warner was this afternoon granted TT$2.5 million bail but has failed to secure his release.

(US Department of Justice) WASHINGTON – A 47-count indictment was unsealed early this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with the defendants’ participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer.

(Trinidad Express) Jack Warner said this morning that he only knew that the US Justice Department was looking to arrest him, by following the international new reports regarding a series of arrest which took place in Switzerland overnight.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer today, announcing a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups and plunging the world’s most popular sport into turmoil.

Emphasizing what has become his mantra of national unity, President David Granger vowed to transform Guyana for the better and pledged not to let the Guyanese people down as thousands braved rains to witness his formal inauguration ceremony at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence yesterday.

A group of Berbicians eager to join the multitudes in Georgetown to celebrate Guyana’s independence and the inauguration of President David Granger encountered tragedy yesterday after the bus in which they were travelling crashed on the West Berbice claiming one life.

Hundreds yesterday morning braved rain at the newly spruced-up Indepen-dence Arch on Brickdam for the flag-raising ceremony marking Guyana’s 49th anniversary of independence during which APNU+AFC President, David Granger called for all to unite to make Guyana a nation of greater prosperity and equality.

An 18-year-old of Grant Burnt Bush, Lower Pomeroon River died on Monday night at Akawini Creek, Lower Pomeroon River after the vessel he was travelling in crashed into a tree.

The driver of a Nissan Titan who allegedly failed to observe the 5 C’s in driving has left a Route 46 minibus badly damaged and three persons injured after failing to stop at the junction of D’urban and Smyth Street yesterday morning.

A mentally ill man is now dead after stabbing himself multiple times to his body but not before also wounding his sister’s husband.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 21-year-old man surrendered to the police on Saturday and gave details of the murder of 26-year-old Ashanti Debidin.

(Barbados Nation) Two Guyanese nationals were scheduled to appear in court yesterday in Barbados to face separate drug charges.

(Barbados Nation) There are no recent major complaints of mistreatment from Guyanese people living here.

A two-year-old child from Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo drowned after he fell into a trench on Saturday and disappeared into the Essequibo River.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation was dealt another setback yesterday when a U.S.

BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia, (Reuters) – Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, yesterday began pulling out bodies from shallow graves found in abandoned jungle camps where an inter-governmental body said hundreds of victims of human traffickers may be buried.