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JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Oakbay Investments said yesterday that a court application by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan linking the firm and its owners, who have close ties to President Jacob Zuma, to suspicious transactions was flawed.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – President Pierre Nkurunziza signed a decree yesterday for Burundi to quit the International Criminal Court, after parliament voted overwhelmingly last week to remove the country from the court’s jurisdiction.

Joseph Winston John, at whose home police found over 300 grammes of marijuana in June, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail for possession of the drug for trafficking.

Full power was restored to Bartica on Sunday night, but the town’s residents remain wary as they have no guarantee that the aged generators will continue to work as they should.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Elections for Venezuela’s state governorships will be held in 2017 rather than December as previously expected, the election board said yesterday, giving the unpopular socialist government a short breathing space before going to the polls.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Michael Moore, the left-wing filmmaker known for provocative documentaries that deliver a biting message, will release an anti-Donald Trump movie on Tuesday as Hollywood ramps up efforts to support Democratic White House contender Hillary Clinton in the final weeks of the 2016 election campaign.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, the outspoken Montego Bay-based University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer, says Sir Hilary Beckles, the university’s vice-chancellor, made a big mistake last week when he apologised for an earlier declaration by William Iton, the university’s registrar, that the university is not answerable to the Jamaican Parliament.

An interior worker was yesterday charged with stealing a machine from his place of employment, Troy Resources.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A Saudi prince was executed in Riyadh on Tuesday after a court found him guilty of shooting dead a fellow Saudi, official media reported, in a rare example of a ruling family member subjected to the death penalty.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Necole Daniels spent years as a sex trafficking victim, pulled into the life by her mother and grandmother who each were prostitutes in the sex trade.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government acknowledged yesterday it had partly restricted internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks who has lived in the South American country’s London embassy since mid-2012.

A taxi driver, accused of defrauding a man of almost $100,000 that was entrusted to him, on Monday promised a city magistrate that he would repay the money.

The Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) experienced three shutdowns at approximately 12:03 hrs, 12:58 hrs and 16:04 hrs today due to a suspected fault on the 69kv transmission line linking the Kingston Power Station to the Sophia Substation (Dispatch Centre), the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said.

(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.8 quake struck off the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea’s Lesser Antilles archipelago today, the U.S.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC-West Indies spinner Devendra Bishoo has achieved a career-high ranking while middle order batsmen Darren Bravo has returned to the top 20 in the latest MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings, released on Tuesday.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission is working towards offering online lease applications and instant responses to questions and queries.

BAGHDAD/ERBIL,  (Reuters) – Iraqi and Kurdish forces closing in on Mosul said on Tuesday they had secured some 20 villages on the outskirts of the city in the first day of an operation to retake what is Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Iraq.

The heroic action of a Corentyne shopkeeper, who ran and grabbed on to a man as he was stabbing the mother of his four children, allowed her to escape, but was not enough to save her life as she subsequently succumbed.

Guyana and the United States yesterday signed an agreement for greater cooperation in tackling offshore tax evasion by allowing for reporting on the local holdings of US citizens to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

A 56-year-old businesswoman was yesterday morning found bound and gagged in her Mahaicony home following a suspected robbery and the police have since arrested a teenager for questioning in connection with the discovery.