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ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s army chief of staff and the head of the northern state of Amhara were killed in two separate but related attacks when a general tried to seize control of Amhara in an attempted coup, the prime minister’s office said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Rickie Stewart had a sense of foreboding leading up to his 32nd birthday yesterday.

A La Penitence man was on Tuesday granted $120,000 bail after he denied ownership of 53 grammes of cannabis found in his house.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition claimed a decisive victory yesterday in Istanbul’s re-run election, dealing one of the biggest blows to President Tayyip Erdogan during his 16 years in power and promising a new beginning in the country’s largest city.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – U.S.-bound asylum seekers will be sent back to at least two additional Mexican border cities later this week to wait for their claims to be processed, officials said, with one of the cities in a region that is among Mexico’s most chaotic and violent.

A Port Kaituma man accused of stealing a cellphone was on Friday granted bail on a charge of break and enter.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The frontrunner to be Britain’s next prime minister, Boris Johnson, came under renewed pressure yesterday to explain the circ*mstances of a late-night row between him and girlfriend that led to the police being called to their home.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans celebrated gay pride yesterday in the capital, San Jose, in the first such march since the country’s constitutional court promised same-sex couples the right to marry starting next year.

(Reuters) – The alkylation unit involved in a massive fire on Friday at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc’s oil refinery has been completely destroyed, which will hamper the supply of gasoline from the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have arrested six members of the country’s military and police forces over the weekend, according to relatives of the detainees and human rights activists, as President Nicolas Maduro seeks to weed out dissent.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Disney’s domination over the box office only seemed to strengthen this weekend as “Toy Story 4” easily topped box office charts.

Police in ‘C’ Division are investigating the death of a 22-year-old who was reportedly electrocuted yesterday at his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.

(Trinidad Newsday) The three young children of murdered Venezuelan Evelyn Mata Rojas are facing eviction with relatives from an house in central Trinidad.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) today said it is taking immediate steps to address the issue of sexual harassment and assault.

(Trinidad Express) Western Division police are investigating a report in which a 25-year-old prison officer was threatened.

(Trinidad Guardian) Clutch­ing a rock as she strug­gled to es­cape bat­ter­ing waves and strong cur­rents, Rad­ha Ju­goon watched in dis­may as her 13-year-old son drowned in the sea while swim­ming in the Morne Di­a­blo Beach on Sat­ur­day.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Reports of a heated late-night row between Boris Johnson and his girlfriend sparked a debate today about whether it would hurt his campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister and the front-runner’s suitability for the job.

As the police prepare to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice on a sexual misconduct complaint against a senior airport manager at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the facility is being accused of trying to victimise and humiliate his accuser.

New political party A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has challenged President David Granger’s labelling of the expired voters’ list as “bloated, expired and corrupt,” saying that the legal process in place to add newly qualified voters and remove the dead has worked.

Local social media personality Melissa Atwell, popularly known as ‘Melly Mel,’ is preparing to bring a case against the Guyana Police Force (GPF) after she was detained for 12 hours on Friday following a series of Facebook posts she made compiling complaints against Dr.