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The three persons who were held last week in connection with the murder of Crabwood Creek farmer Khublall Gomes were released from police custody yesterday, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and dropped its legal case against Apple, ending a high-stakes legal battle but leaving the broader struggle over encryption unresolved.

A labourer was yesterday granted bail after denying that he stole over $100,000 in items during a break-in.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – A United Nations task force recommended in a report yesterday new ethical rules and financial disclosures for the office of the presidency of the U.N.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party announced yesterday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Nine out of 10 of Britain’s top economists working in London’s City financial district, small business and academia believe the economy will be harmed if Britain leaves the European Union, a poll said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Public sector unions triumphed before the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday when the justices preserved a vital source of cash for organized labour, splitting 4-4 on a conservative challenge that had seemed destined for success until Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Two police officers were killed and four wounded yesterday in the western Venezuelan city of San Cristobal after they were hit by a bus driven by young men protesting a hike in public transport fares, according to government officials and Reuters witnesses.

MUMBAI, India, CMC- Flamboyant opener Chris Gayle says he wants to score a ‘big one’ for West Indies when they take on favourites India in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup tomorrow.

The Ministry of the Presidency this afternoon issued a one line statement saying that the appointment of Brian Tiwari as Ministerial Advisor on Business Development has been rescinded.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party announced today it is leaving President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that cripples her fight against impeachment proceedings in Congress.

About 11.45 last night, the police say that Lionel King, 26 years, of Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast, was walking along the Johanna Cecelia Public Road, Essequibo, when he was struck down by a motor car that was driven away from the scene.

With the life of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Camp Street prison unrest having officially come to an end on March 28, hearings have been put on hold until an extension is granted by the State.

NAGPUR, India, CMC-President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has confirmed that India will play four Test matches in the Caribbean later this year.

(Barbados Nation) SANDALS RESORT’S love affair with Barbados is about to blossom in a huge way.

President David Granger will today meet Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Khemraj Ramjattan to discuss concerns that the allocation of APNU+AFC coalition seats won in Georgetown and other parts of the country at the recent local government elections was unfair.

A three-year-old lost his life yesterday when he was struck down by a speeding car on East Coast Demerara road near the entrance to the Golden Grove Secondary School.

The importance of the Deeds Registry and Com-mercial Registry being physically separated was one of the key findings of a forensic audit done last year of the registries.

Haslyn Parris, a scholar and constitutional expert who had served as Deputy Prime Minister under the PNC government, passed away yesterday at the age of 75.

In the wake of the fire that claimed the lives of 17 prisoners at the Camp Street jail on March 3, the government has named visiting committees for all the penitentiaries.