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MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Nearly 100 people were missing  after a tourist boat sank in Russia’s Volga river yesterday,  killing at least one person, emergency services officials said.

JUBA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence yesterday, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disputed borders and oil payments unresolved.

(Trinidad Guardian) The government is taking legal action against G-pan inventor Professor Brian Copeland and three associates for profiting from sale of the G-Pan whose intellectual rights are owned by the government, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) – In a moment of celebration tinged with sorrow and no little anger, the staff of Britain’s best-selling News of the World tabloid cheered as they left their offices yesterday for the last time.

GUATEMALA CITY  (Reuters) – Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, one of the stars of Latin American folk music, was shot dead in Guatemala City early yesterday when gunmen riddled his car with bullets, authorities said.

JUBA, (Reuters) – Thousands of South Sudanese danced  in the streets today (last night local time) to mark their long-awaited  independence, a hard-won separation from the north that also  plunged the fractured region into a new period of uncertainty.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police arrested David Cameron’s  former spokesman yesterday over the scandal that has shut down  Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, forcing the prime minister  to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the  British press.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – An airliner ploughed into dense  forest as it tried to land during a rainstorm in the Democratic  Republic of Congo yesterday, killing 127 people on board, the  Congolese transport ministry said.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan shopkeepers, who  shuttered shops for two days this week to protest over the cost  of doing business, have complained about an influx of Chinese,  prompting the government to promise a headcount of immigrants.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Betty Ford, the wife of the  late President Gerald Ford, who overcame alcohol and  prescription drug addictions and helped found a rehabilitation  clinic that bears her name, died  yesterday at the age of 93.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, (Reuters) – A man suspected of  killing seven people, including two children, in western  Michigan on Thursday ended a hostage standoff with police by  killing himself, authorities said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch will shut down  Britain’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the  World, in a startling response to a scandal engulfing his media  empire.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A retired Pakistani general  strongly denied yesterday a report that he took $3 million in  cash in exchange for helping smuggle nuclear technology to North  Korea in the late 1990s, while the nation’s foreign office  called the story “preposterous.”

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Both Honduras’ leftist  President and the coup leaders who ousted him in 2009 broke the  law, a truth commission report found yesterday, in a bid to  heal a political rift in the country caused by the affair.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President  Jacob Zuma’s elite guards overstepped their authority when they  arrested and roughed up a student who they thought made an  obscene hand gesture, a government commission said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia and the U.S. drug  agency have broken an airport drug ring in the world’s No.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Singaporean port operator PSA  International Pte. Ltd. has quietly signed on to manage a  container terminal under construction at the Cuban port of  Mariel, sources close to the project said this week.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel  Martelly chose a lawyer and former justice minister on  Wednesday to be the country’s next prime minister, making a  second attempt to fill the key government post.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch promised full  cooperation yesterday to resolve a scandal shaking his media  empire after British Prime Minister David Cameron promised an  inquiry into what he called “disgusting” phone hacking by a  newspaper.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s widely traded  global bonds inched down yesterday after President Hugo  Chavez’s return from cancer surgery in Cuba, which has left  some doubts about how effectively he can govern.