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(Barbados Nation) Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell has been given a six-day lifeline.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will issue a new executive order to replace his controversial directive suspending travel to the United States by citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee was arrested yesterday over his alleged role in a corruption scandal rocking the highest levels of power in South Korea, dealing a fresh blow to the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The head of Britain’s Supreme Court has accused politicians of not doing enough to protect the independence of the judicial system when judges came in for harsh criticism from pro-Brexit newspapers last year.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 72 people and wounding dozens more in the deadliest of a wave of bombings across the South Asian nation this week.

MANILA, (Reuters) – A staunch critic of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte yesterday revived allegations of millions of dollars of hidden assets that he said the president had yet to answer, an assertion Duterte’s camp dismissed as a publicity stunt.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales rejected rumors of a possible coup d’etat on Thursday, shortly after his brother and elder son were sentenced to house arrest while being investigated for fraud.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The first gripe came three minutes into President Donald Trump’s first solo news conference yesterday, when he accused reporters of ignoring a poll showing him with a 55 percent approval rating – a figure at odds with most other surveys.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government ordered the suspension of CNN’s Spanish-language service from Venezuela’s airwaves yesterday, accusing it of distorting the truth in coverage.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – In a blow to President Donald Trump as he tries to assemble his administration, his nominee for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, withdrew his name from consideration yesterday amid concerns that he could not garner enough Senate votes to be confirmed.

SEOUL/KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysian police yesterday detained a woman holding Vietnam travel papers and said they were looking for a “few” other foreign suspects in connection with the apparent assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother.

(Reuters) – Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing four current and former U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump knew for weeks that national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled the White House about his contacts with Russia but did not immediately force him out, an administration spokesman said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – From buses and trucks to a $500 million golf resort, China is deepening its business footprint in Cuba, helping the fellow Communist-run state survive a crisis in oil-benefactor Venezuela and insulate against a possible rollback of U.S.

KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government strongly believes that North Korean agents murdered the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia, U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Microsoft President Brad Smith yesterday pressed the world’s governments to form an international body to protect civilians from state-sponsored hacking, saying recent high-profile attacks showed a need for global norms to police government activity in cyberspace.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler, represented by Solicitor General Jennifer Edwards, will head to the High Court today to have a temporary injunction preventing him from firing Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell lifted.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s powerful vice president yesterday called his blacklisting by the United States on drug charges an “imperialist aggression” in the first flare-up between the two countries under new U.S.

(Barbados Nation) On February 1 1, 2017, the Massy Group further delivered on its strategy of regional diversification through the Massy Motors acquisition of two large automobile dealerships in Colombia – Autogalias in Bogotá and the Grupo Automontaña in Medellín, which incorporate four dealerships.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Finance Minis-ter, Audley Shaw, has indicated that 84 public entities are to be merged, closed or divested as part of the Government’s ongoing rationalisation of the public service.