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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./ WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating the massacre of 14 people in California by a married couple armed with assault rifles as an “act of terrorism,” officials said yesterday, noting the wife was believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff suffered two setbacks yesterday in her fight against impeachment, as a minister from her main coalition ally resigned and the Supreme Court quashed appeals from supporters seeking to stop the impeachment process.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has found the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena and is thought to be laden with emeralds and gold and silver coins, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday.

Ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch have managed to score their biggest haul of marijuana in recent times.

(Trinidad Express) Three weeks before Christmas, the Central Bank has announced that this country is officially now in a recession.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Police raided the headquarters of Argentina’s media regulator yesterday, prompting the watchdog’s head to accuse President-elect Mauricio Macri of involvement in what he called a “mafia plot” designed to force his resignation.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA, (Reuters) – Several hundred Turkish soldiers have been deployed to provide training for Iraqi troops in an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic State control, a Turkish security source told Reuters yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Cash-strapped CLICO has been pulled from the brink of liquidation and given a new lease on life by the High Court.

WASHINGTON/SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear Puerto Rico’s bid to reinstate a law that would allow restructuring of the debt-burdened U.S.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force was one of two suspects who police say confessed after being arrested on Thursday for the carjacking of a taxi-driver at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A decision by the Dominican Republic’s constitutional court to reinstate a total ban on abortion is putting women’s lives at risk, rights groups said.

A Hampton Court man was killed on Thursday when a driver lost control of his car and crashed into him along the Exmouth Public Road, on the Essequibo Coast.

Acting on information received, police ranks recovered an unlicensed M16 Rifle and an unlicensed 20-gauge Shotgun at Apicka Landing, Middle Mazaruni, today.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Jaguars, replying to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s 210, were nine without loss in their first innings at the close on the opening day of their fourth round match in the Regional First Class Championship at Queen’s Park Oval today.

(US Embassy) GEORGETOWN – Effective December 07, 2015, the Consular Section of the U.S

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California posted an online statement pledging allegiance to a leader of the Islamic State militant group, CNN reported today, citing U.S.

Diligent investigations by the police led to the arrest of two suspects yesterday in connection with an armed robbery on a taxi-driver at Bachelor Adventure, ECD, on November 28, 2015.

About 2100h. last night, ranks of the Police Narcotics Section conducted a search on a motor vehicle on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, during  which 76.6 kilograms of marijuana were found.

About 1630h. yesterday, the police say that motor cyclist Khemraj Singh, 20 years, of Hampton Court, Essequibo Coast, was riding his motor cycle along the Exmouth Public Road, Essequibo Coast, when the driver of an oncoming motor car allegedly lost control of the vehicle and collided with him.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two today, Egyptian security officials said.