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(Jamaica Gleaner) One major Chinese company that has invested billions of dollars in Jamaica in the past decade, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), is publicly denying any knowledge of an ‘established practice’ to pay bribery to Jamaican government officials.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience of his killers.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents voted yesterday in record numbers for a bitterly contested legislative election, with a push for independence among a disaffected younger generation of candidates and voters stoking tension with China’s government.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities briefly rounded up more than 30 people on Margarita island for heckling President Nicolas Maduro, activists said yesterday, in what appeared to be a rare public confrontation with the unpopular leader.

DETROIT (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black church in Detroit yesterday and calling for a new civil rights agenda to support African-Americans.

PAWNEE, Okla (Reuters) – One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in Oklahoma rattled the area northwest of Pawnee yesterday, fuelling growing concern about seismic activity linked to energy production, a federal agency said.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A powerful Atlantic storm strengthened yesterday afternoon after passing over North Carolina’s Outer Banks en route to the US Middle Atlantic coast, where it was expected to spoil the Labor Day holiday weekend with high winds, soaking rains and surging seas.

HANGZHOU (Reuters) – Britain’s economy will suffer as a result of the decision to leave the European Union despite signs in recent economic data that the impact has not been as severe as some predicted, Prime Minister Theresa May said today.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government said yesterday it thwarted a coup plot this week as opponents planned to build on their biggest protest in more than a decade with further street action demanding a referendum to remove the president.

LIBREVILLE,  (Reuters) – Gabonese opposition candidate Jean Ping declared himself president yesterday, after a disputed election that triggered two days of post-election riots against President Ali Bongo.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has recalled all Galaxy Note 7 smartphones equipped with batteries it has found to be fire-prone and halted their sales in 10 markets, denting a revival of the firm’s mobile business.

TAMPA, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Hermine wreaked havoc across Florida yesterday, causing widespread power outages and flooding before diminishing into a tropical storm and plowing up the Atlantic Coast into the Carolinas with a still-potent mix of high winds and heavy rains.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s presidency said yesterday that a minister not a cabinet team had asked for a judicial inquiry into why banks cut ties with a company belonging to the Gupta family, conflicting messages from a government which appears increasingly divided.

LIBREVILLE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon yesterday, the government said, in a second day of rioting over the announcement of President Ali Bongo’s re-election and his main rival’s accusation that the vote was rigged.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its cargo during preparations for a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday, two days before it had been due to blast off and place a satellite in orbit.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Melania Trump, the wife of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, sued the Maryland-based publisher of the Daily Mail Online and a blogger yesterday over stories about her past she believes were “tremendously damaging,” her attorney said in a statement.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America’s biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed yesterday that anyone who is in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation if he is elected, stressing his hardline position after flirting with a softer approach.

LIBREVILLE,  (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire yesterday as anger boiled over among opposition supporters at President Ali Bongo’s re-election in polls that his main rival, Jean Ping, claimed to have won.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, (Reuters) – The first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed yesterday, opening another chapter in the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties and increase trade and travel with the former Cold War foe.