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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders welcomed Turkey’s offer yesterday to take back all migrants who cross into Europe from its soil and agreed in principle to Ankara’s demands for more money, faster EU membership talks and quicker visa-free travel in return.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Access to potentially life-saving contraception and abortion can be a lottery for women and girls in Latin America, often depending on their ability to pay or the personal and religious views of a health worker, Amnesty Inter-national said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Officials with the nonprofit Simon Wiesenthal Center praised Twitter Inc yesterday for increasing efforts to thwart Islamic State’s use of its platform for recruitment and propaganda.

The members of the Commission of Inquiry that will probe last Thursday’s fiery revolt at the Georgetown Prison which claimed 17 lives were sworn in earlier this afternoon.

A Grove man who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend 40 times last year April was today charged with the murder and remanded to prison.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies will enter the Twenty20 World Cup in India second in the ICC rankings, with the hosts installed as the top-ranked side heading into the March 8 to April 3 global event.

The opposition PPP today excoriated the government over Thursday’s 17 prison deaths.

Historic elections for the Bartica town council on March 18 could see an independent group shaking up traditional voting in the community and this has resulted in rising tensions with the governing APNU+AFC coalition which has the most to lose.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told PPP/C supporters that should members be elected to office at the upcoming local government elections (LGE), the way of interfacing with persons must be less arrogant and more sensitive.

Since Guyana will in the future be an oil producing country with a Sovereign Wealth Fund, former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran on Saturday urged the APNU+AFC government to swiftly establish anti-corruption mechanisms to prevent dishonest dealings.

Rice farmers in Leguan are facing a crisis as for the first time in recent memory they have been unable to sow because of the prolonged El Niño drought.

Two of the three prisoners injured in Thursday’s Camp Street prison blaze remain admitted at the Burn Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) but no family members are allowed to see the men.

None of the six groups which participated in the historic Georgetown Debate on Saturday at the Theatre Guild fielded a woman candidate.

President David Granger, accompanied by Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan and Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday visited the Mazaruni Penal Settlement as part of government’s search for a long-term solution to the problems of the prison service which saw 17 inmates dying on Thursday in a fire at the Camp Street facility.

A Corentyne motorcyclist and a Helena No.2 pedestrian are the latest traffic fatalities, the police said yesterday.

The two candidates for Constituency 6 of the Toevlugt/Patentia Neighourhood Democratic Council are concerned about the effects of the Wales estate closure but are still prepared to work to develop the community.

High levels of tax exemptions – over $43b in 2014 – and tax incentives have been strongly criticised by the reform committee empanelled by the APNU+AFC Government and it has recommended major revamping.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has branded leading U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities said yesterday they were investigating the alleged killings of a group of miners in the jungle state of Bolivar, following reports they were gruesomely murdered in a fight for control of a gold deposit.

(Reuters) – Nancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and her husband’s Alzheimer’s disease, died yesterday at age 94.