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(Trinidad Guardian) With growing concerns about the country’s rising crime and murder rate, which now stands at 303, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday summoned divisional heads of the Police Service to a meeting where he again pressed home the point that they must manage the crime situation.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s opponents made a final call at her impeachment trial yesterday for her removal, not just for breaking budget rules, but for plunging Brazil into a political and economic crisis amid a sweeping corruption scandal.

MAPUTO, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is demanding an external forensic audit of Mozambique’s public debt to regain investor confidence after a scandal over more than $2 billion in secret loans, its local representative said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested several opposition activists accused of plotting violence during an anti-government rally scheduled for Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday, and opposition leaders slammed the arrests as intimidation.

MANILA, (Reuters) – China will be the “loser” if it does not recognise an international court ruling against its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said today.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A defiant President Dilma Rousseff warned yesterday that her conservative opponents were trampling on Brazil’s democracy by using trumped-up charges to oust her and roll back the social advances of 13 years of leftist rule.

BEIRUT/KARKAMIS, Turkey,  (Reuters) – Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria yesterday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said it was concerned the battle for territory had shifted away from targeting Islamic State.

MANILA, (Reuters) – A Philippines senator who is leading an inquiry into the spate of killings unleashed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ has vowed to press on despite bizarre accusations and insults raining on her from the country’s leader.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government yesterday dismissed the head of federal police, Enrique Galindo, after a recent report that detailed grave human rights abuses by officers serving under him.

AUSTIN, Texas,  (Reuters) – Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers said on Monday after studying her 3.18-million-year-old fossilized remains.

 (Reuters) – New Jersey researchers said yesterday they had identified perhaps the first strain of E.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview on Saturday that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives had “underestimated” the challenge of integrating record numbers of migrants.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday condemned the Venezuelan government’s decision to move Daniel Ceballos, a former opposition mayor accused of fomenting protests, to prison from house arrest and called for his immediate release.

SIRTE, Libya,  (Reuters) – At least 34 Libyan fighters were killed and more than 180 wounded yesterday as they closed in on the last Islamic State militant holdouts in the coastal city of Sirte, according to a field hospital.

LIBREVILLE,  (Reuters) – Supporters of Gabon’s President Ali Bongo and his chief rival both said yesterday they were set to win a presidential election that poses the most serious challenge yet to the Bongo family’s half-century rule in the tiny, oil-rich nation.

(Reuters) – Chicago police yesterday said they have arrested two brothers and charged them with the fatal shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin as she pushed a baby in a stroller, a murder that has stunned a city plagued by a surge in gang-related violence.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan may be charged this week for graft, the City Press newspaper reported on Sunday, citing senior sources in the police, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), and the tax service.

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon voted yesterday amid discontent over its failure to raise living standards despite oil wealth, in a poll posing the biggest challenge yet to President Ali Bongo, whose family has run the central African nation for half a century.

KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in northern Syria yesterday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes against both Kurdish forces and Islamic State.

ASUNCION (Reuters) – An ambush in the north of Paraguay killed eight soldiers, authorities said yesterday, adding that the attack bore the hallmarks of the guerrilla group known as the Paraguayan People’s Army.