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MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian authorities have tried to  crack down on portrayals of Sonia Gandhi in movies, books and  cartoons, triggering criticism that the world’s largest  democracy is too reverent towards its most powerful politician.

Guyana’s Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) for the Global Fund on TB and malaria suffered a setback yesterday when stakeholders failed to show up for a critical meeting to select new members for three seats on the coordinating body.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights  Council yesterday voted to set up an independent  fact-finding mission to look into what it called violations of  international law in Israel’s raid on a Gaza aid flotilla.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octive- Hamilton when he appeared before her accused of trafficking in narcotics at Port Kaituma.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) used its majority in Parliament to secure the position of Bruce Golding as prime minister despite the parliamentary opposition mobilising all its members to remove him.

LIMA, (Reuters) – A Dutch citizen who was arrested  twice over the disappearance of an American student in Aruba in  2005 is the prime suspect in a new homicide investigation in  Peru, police said yesterday.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The growing scandal over sexual  abuse by Catholic priests threatened Germany’s top bishop who  was put under investigation yesterday on suspicion of  aiding  and abetting a known abuser by letting him get a new parish job.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday after he was read a charge of robbery under arms by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Faithful followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez commonly defend any failures of his more than a decade in power by saying he must have been unknowingly misled by ministers and sycophants.

MIAMI (Reuters) – The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading US forecasters said yesterday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the US coastline.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department  on Tuesday moved to freeze assets of three businesses linked to  accused Mozambican drug kingpin Mohamed Bachir Suleman.

Justice William Ramlal yesterday sentenced Keron Lord to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The lifeless body of a 36-year-old man was pulled out of a trench at Crane, West Coast Demerara and there are suspicions that he died by drowning.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Clashes between leftist guerrilla groups killed at least nine suspected rebels in northeast Colombia in a fight for control over a drug route, a government military commander said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Elizabeth Taylor has  made public for the first time her love letters from Richard  Burton, giving new insight into a passionate, playful but  turbulent romance that spanned 20 years and two marriages.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters Life!) – Paul McCartney said yesterday he was honoured to be receiving one of the United  States’ most important music awards, the Library of Congress’  Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama held talks with his Peruvian counterpart Alan Garcia on Tuesday and praised his stewardship of the Andean country’s economy during the global economic crisis.

The Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) has saluted women and pledges to work harder for their advancement, in a message to mark their 57th anniversary.

US ends relief operations The US military has ended major relief operations in Haiti, five months after the devastating earthquake struck, the Southern Command announced on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Hollywood director  Brett Ratner has “remixed” the Bollywood romance film “Kites” by  shortening it, changing its music and adding sound effects.