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DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh began yesterday investigating allegations that Nobel Prize winning   microlender Grameen bank had illegally diverted aid funds   after a Norwegian television documentary cast doubts about its   tax records.

Technician Bransley Kissoon was on Monday placed on bail in the sum of $35,000, after denying charges of driving without a licence and insurance.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S.-Cuban cooperation has  significantly reduced the number of Cuban migrants making  dangerous and illegal voyages to the United States, Havana’s  delegation to bilateral migration talks said yesterday.

A man who admitted to hitting another out of a fit of anger is now awaiting sentencing, pending a probation report.

Caricom Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government  Tillman Thomas has pledged the Caribbean Community’s continued to support of the rebuilding of Haiti and the revival of its economy one year after a disastrous earthquake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti mourned more than  300,000 victims of its devastating 2010 earthquake yesterday  in a sombre one-year anniversary clouded by pessimism over slow  reconstruction and political uncertainty.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Ministers from Hezbollah and its  allies resigned yesterday, toppling the Lebanese government  of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri before expected indictments  against the Shi’ite group over the killing of Hariri’s father.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The U.S. and Haitian  governments signed a deal on Tuesday with a South Korean  garment manufacturer to develop an industrial park in  quake-hit Haiti in one of the largest investment projects in  the poor Caribbean country.

BRISBANE, Australia, (Reuters) – Flood water in   Australia’s third-biggest city peaked below    feared catastrophic levels yesterday but Brisbane and other   devastated regions faced years of rebuilding and even the   threat of fresh floods in the weeks ahead.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday granted $125,000 bail to a former employee of the Guyana Lands and Survey (GL&S) Department arraigned on three charges of forgery.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Lonwabo Tsotsobe  received the man of the match award after his four wickets led  South Africa to a crushing 135-run win over India in the first  one-day international at Kingsmead today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The second major snow storm of  the winter blanketed the U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Floods and landslides  devastated mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro and killed    dozens, bringing the death toll yesterday from heavy rains  in Brazil’s south to at least 257.

At about 3pm yesterday, ranks of a police mobile patrol  responded to a report of larceny of a gold chain at Republic Park, EBD, committed on Ingrid Brown, 60 years, an overseas-based Guyanese, residing at Phase 1, Republic Park.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Ministers from Hezbollah and its  allies resigned today, toppling the Lebanese government  of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri before expected indictments  against the Shi’ite group over the killing of Hariri’s father.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  (Reuters) – Chris Woakes struck  the winning runs off the last ball to lift England to a dramatic  one-wicket victory over Australia in a Twenty20 international today.

The PNCR today announced a series of meetings to introduce to the public the five persons vying to be its presidential candidate this year.

Four persons, including a sixty-four-year-old crippled grandmother, who was on her way to the airport, are now in police custody following the discovery of over nine kilos of cocaine in a wheelchair in the car transporting the woman.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber rammed his   explosive-laden vehicle into a mosque in northwest Pakistan today, killing 17 paramilitary soldiers and policemen,   police said.

A doctor was yesterday charged with verbally abusing his wife. Arturo Laxa was sent on his own recognisance by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, after he pleaded not guilty.