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The US Embassy today issued a warning about the consequences of overstaying on a US visa.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – The United States is exerting “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said today, ahead of an unsolicited visit by a high-profile U.S.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors considered ending treatment so he could die in peace, the head of the pope’s medical team said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Curtis Ward says the key reason for Marco Rubio’s visit to Jamaica this week has not been revealed, asserting that the trip is to make demands on CARICOM states.

(Trinidad Guardian) Housing Minister and Laventille East/Morvant MP Adrian Leonce is now in hot water, after admitting to registering a UK-based company using another person’s address in that country before terminating the company.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) responded to a fire at the ABC Chinese Restaurant, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, at approximately 03:07 hrs this morning.

The US State Department today issued a statement on the visit this week of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Caribbean.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States today gave oil producer Chevron until May 27 to wind down its oil operations and exports from Venezuela, the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has ruled in favour of former High Court judge Marcia Ayers-Caesar, dismissing an appeal brought by Trinidad and Tobago’s Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) and upholding findings that her removal from office in April 2017 was unlawful.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Church’s Texas Chicken will be entering Jamaica’s quick-service restaurant market with its first store scheduled to open at Mall Plaza in Kingston in the third quarter of this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) The home of murdered former police officer Arkim Baker was set on fire Saturday morning.

Dr Chile Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria and Canada has been selected by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC), the independent body responsible for recruiting staff and judges for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), to join the CCJ as a Judge.

COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Greenlandic leaders criticised a planned trip this week by a high-profile U.S.

Effective August 1, crossings at the Demerara Harbour Bridge, the Berbice River Bridge, and the Wismar Bridge in Region Ten will be free of cost.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney today called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by U.S.

(Trinidad Express) A teenager was shot and killed in Claxton Bay by a man who went to sell a dog, while accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has directed the immediate reinstatement of Dr.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Iraq plans to raise oil production capacity to more than 6 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2029, the state news agency reported Iraq’s oil ministry as saying today.

TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli protesters took to the streets for a sixth day today amid reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is preparing a no confidence motion on the attorney general in its latest move against officials deemed hostile to the government.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis left Rome’s Gemelli hospital today following a five-week stay to be treated for pneumonia, making his first public appearance since February 14 by waving to well-wishers from a balcony moments before he was discharged.