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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad sought to deflect the greatest challenge to his 11-year rule by mobilizing tens of thousands of Syrians in mass rallies across the country on Tuesday in response to pro-democracy protests.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. officials on Sunday stressed the limits of American military involvement in Libya, despite a heavy assault on Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, and said Libyans would decide their country’s fate themselves.
Last week’s devastation in Japan and its snowballing aftermath have consumed the Jamaican music industry with concern for it’s friends and acquaintances in the country…
Trinidad and Tobago batsman Runako Morton has been expelled from the country’s Elite Athletes Assistance Programme, after he appeared in court Monday on drug related charges.
POLICE INVESTIGATORS believe the Clansman gang, one of the deadliest criminal organisations in the country, is raking in over $400 million a year from its nefarious activities.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s forces wrested back part of a town in western Libya from rebels, but his foes said they had seized the oil port of Ras Lanuf, expanding their grip in the east of the country in a two-week-old uprising.
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Wisconsin Republicans seeking to curb the power of public sector unions tried on Friday to pressure absent Democrats to return home and vote on a plan that has sparked labor protests across the country.
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA HAS plans to abolish outgoing immigration as the country moves towards a comprehensive review of the process to enable hassle-free access for incoming and outgoing airline passengers.
It would appear from all reports that the international recession is continuing to make its presence felt in our country even if there are some positive signs of incipient recovery elsewhere, especially in those larger countries from which we draw our visitors.
Switzerland’s Ambassador to Barbados, Marcus-Alexander Antoinetti, presenting Prime Minister Freundel Stuart with a token from his country druring the courtesy call at Government Headquarters on Wednesday.The death penalty, regional integration and migration were among the topics discussed, when Ambassador of Switzerland to Barbados, Marcus Alexander Antoinetti, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart.
