(Jamaica Gleaner) In a major decision by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) on Thursday, the regulatory body approved a mobile termination rate (MTR) of J$1.10 effective July 1, which will see consumers benefitting from a sharp decline from the current J$5.00 per minute.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon today at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told media editors yesterday that he would change the way the Justice Department handles investigations that involve reporters and not repeat searches that have raised concerns about freedom of the press, the editors said.
BEIRUT – Syrian rebels under siege near the Lebanese border pleaded for help on Thursday against government troops and their Hezbollah allies as a confident President Bashar al-Assad spoke of having new Russian missiles.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – With no miracle in sight, Roman Catholic churches are being asked to ration wine in the latest shortage to illustrate Venezuela’s economic troubles.
PHNOM PENH, (Reuters) – A leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge expressed remorse yesterday for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people during the “Killing Fields” regime in the 1970s and accepted responsibility for the first time during court proceedings.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Protests in northern Peru over the $5 billion Conga gold mine make “no sense” and could spell the end of the project if they succeed in preventing the draining of a nearby lake, the project’s junior partner said yesterday.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – The regional human rights court for the Americas yesterday told El Salvador it must let doctors perform an abortion on a woman carrying a seriously deformed fetus that has put her life at risk, but the Central American nation was not bound by the move.
SAN PEDRO TAPANATEPEC, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Barbara hit Mexico’s southern Pacific coast yesterday, flooding roads, toppling trees and killing two men before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved inland.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden encouraged Brazil yesterday to open its economy further to keep up with free trade trends worldwide as he started a visit aimed at boosting business between the two largest economies in the Americas.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s Supreme Court must decide in the coming months whether or not to overturn December elections that handed the presidency to John Mahama, in a rare case of African judicial vigour that has transfixed the country.
NAIROBI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Kenyan High Court has ordered police to reinvestigate complaints of rape by 11 girls in a landmark case brought by a children’s charity on behalf of more than 240 victims of child rape, some of them as young as three years old.
CARACAS/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Venezuela reacted with fury to yesterday’s talks between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, saying it was a “bomb” in ties and recalling an envoy to Colombia’s peace process.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike killed the number two of the Pakistani Taliban in the North Waziristan region yesterday, three security officials said, in what would be a major blow in the fight against militancy.
(Reuters) – Former Beatle Ringo Starr is lifting the lid on a collection of previously unseen photographs of the Fab Four in their heyday from his personal collection, in a new photography book due out next month.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike killed the number two of the Pakistani Taliban in the North Waziristan region today, three security officials said, in what would be a major blow in the fight against militancy.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Two of the most violent gangs in Honduras announced a truce yesterday under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world’s most murderous country.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have filed an indictment against the operators of digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve, accusing the Costa Rica-based company of helping criminals around the world launder more than $6 billion in illicit funds linked to everything from child pornography to software for hacking into banks.