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SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Mozambique invites Brazilian  soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and  introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the  head of Mato Grosso state’s cotton producers association Ampa  said on Monday.

About 25 CEOs and business leaders from Central America and the Caribbean are scheduled to meet with Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin this week in El Salvador to discuss strengthening trade relations between both regions in the face of economic challenges in the hemisphere.

The Ministry of Agriculture is expanding its Grow More Food campaign following what it said was the successful implementation of the first phase.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – A college student who  overstepped a safety railing fell into Niagara Falls over the  weekend and searchers looking for her body on Monday found an  unidentified male body instead.

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – A 65-year-old man was  sentenced to a year in a federal prison and fined $10,000 yesterday for sexually abusing a fellow airline passenger while  she slept under a blanket in the seat beside him.

More stringent measures and laws to deal with drivers who misuse the road were among the proposals made to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Sunday, during a meeting with hire cars, mini-bus and truck operators at Diamond Secondary School, East Bank Demerara on Sunday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former employees of elite Wall  Street firms are triumphing over their previous investment  banks in Google Inc’s blockbuster $12.5 billion deal to buy  Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded a man who is accused of trafficking 295 grammes of cannabis at Potaro-Siparuni.

ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels said they  had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours,  completing the encirclement of the capital in the boldest  advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar  Gaddafi.

Phlebotomist Candacie Haniff, 28, was yesterday charged with possession of cannabis.

(Jamaica Observer) MALVERN, St Elizabeth – Education Minister Andrew Holness is targeting the end of October for completion of a rehabilitative residential school now under construction to serve “disruptive students”.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Suicide attackers and car bombs  struck cities across Iraq yesterday, killing at least 50 people  and wounding scores more in a rash of apparently coordinated  assaults carried out by affiliates of al Qaeda, authorities  said.

Christine Gasper, who is accused of talking to her imprisoned son, was on Friday placed on $5,500 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

LILONGWE, (Reuters) – Malawi police killed 19 unarmed  citizens and shot 58 others during protests in July, the  government’s rights body said yesterday, in the first official  report on unprecedented rallies against President Bingu wa  Mutharika’s government.

A series of workshops are underway to strengthen the organisation of Community Policing Groups (CPGs) countrywide.

(Barbados Nation) The police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding any information pertaining to the death of Adrian McDonald Wilkinson.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Beset by civil unrest at home and  lambasted by the West and his Arab neighbours for his violent  crackdown on dissent, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad can  count on one firm ally: Iran.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The fuel price in Suriname is now among the highest in the region.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Global food prices held near  three-year highs in July and stocks were low, piling on  pressure on the world’s poor, the World Bank said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The Government yesterday claimed victory after planned sick-out action by police officers to stay at home for a day of “rest and reflection” crumbled with more than 80 per cent of the officers turning up for duty.