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LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – An armed man and woman shouting about a “revolution” opened fire and killed two Las Vegas policemen who were eating lunch in a pizza parlor on Sunday, then fatally shot a civilian in a nearby Wal-Mart store before killing themselves, police said.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as president of Egypt yesterday in a ceremony with low-key attendance by Western allies concerned by a crackdown on dissent since he ousted Islamist leader Mohamed Mursi last year.

KANO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s ousted central bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, was named Emir of Kano yesterday, making an outspoken government critic one of the most influential leaders in the largely Muslim north.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels declared a ceasefire on Saturday for a three-week period covering a tight presidential election race on June 15, campaigning for which has centered on how to end five decades of war with the guerrilla group.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked one of Pakistan’s biggest airports yesterday and at least 23 people were killed, including all 10 of the attackers, media reported.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants snap inspections at schools in response to “deeply concerning” allegations of a plot by extremist Muslims to take over schools in the English city of Birmingham.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – A new way of evaluating tumors may soon help cancer patients identify the underlying genetic link to their disease – and the best possible treatment – all in a single test.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as president of Egypt today in a ceremony with low-key attendance by Western allies concerned by a crackdown on dissent since he ousted Islamist leader Mohamed Mursi last year.

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech yesterday.

BAGHDAD/RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) – A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad yesterday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s new government sought to ease concerns that freedom of expression is under threat yesterday, promising to strengthen the independence of the state-run broadcaster and to consider allowing more foreign investment in Indian media.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt and the United Arab Emirates said yesterday they had contracted a state-run company headed by a retired Egyptian army officer to build wheat silos that are a key part of the UAE’s $4.9 billion aid package to Cairo.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Friday the case of the rats eating the cocaine or of money disappearing while in police custody should be a thing of the past when the Indictable Offences (Committal Proceedings) Bill is in effect.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, best known for his roles on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘30 Rock,’ was badly injured when his limo bus overturned in a multi-vehicle crash that killed another comic in New Jersey early yesterday.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France, (Reuters) – The leaders of Russia and Ukraine held their first talks yesterday since Moscow annexed Crimea, airing ways to end their four-month conflict in a brief encounter during commemorations in France of the World War Two D-Day landings.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employment returned to its pre-recession peak in May with a solid pace of hiring that offered confirmation the economy has snapped back from a winter slump.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is financing a new 24-hour satellite TV channel in northern Nigeria meant to counter insurgencies by the militant Islamist Boko Haram and other groups in the region, the New York Times reported yesterday.

MONCTON, New Brunswick, (Reuters) – A 24-year-old man was charged with murder yesterday in the slayings of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers during a shooting spree in the eastern Canadian city of Moncton.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – The heads of El Salvador’s main street gangs urged the country’s new president Salvador Sanchez Ceren to tackle criminals behind a recent wave of killings, declaring themselves blameless on Thursday for the violence gripping the Central American nation.

    HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe yesterday branded his information minister a “devil incarnate”, accusing him of appointing editors of state-owned newspapers who were sympathetic to the opposition.