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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands,  (Reuters) – Lawmakers in the Cayman Islands passed a vote of no confidence yesterday ousting embattled Premier McKeeva Bush from office one week after he was arrested on suspicion of corruption.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recovers in Havana from his fourth cancer operation, Cubans face renewed worries about their economic future if the country’s top ally dies or has to step down from office.

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) re-elected President Jacob Zuma as its leader yesterday, setting him up for seven more years as head of state of Africa’s biggest economy.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is in “stable” condition in Cuba after being treated for a respiratory infection following cancer surgery a week ago, the government said yesterday.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Russia sent warships to the Mediterranean to prepare a potential evacuation of its citizens from Syria, a Russian news agency said yesterday, a sign President Bashar al-Assad’s key ally is worried about rebel advances now threatening even the capital.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – It has taken 10 years of hard work and indie movies, but Ben Affleck finally has moved past his “Bennifer” nightmare.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Days after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, actress Naomi Watts took part in a fundraising telethon spearheaded by George Clooney to help the region’s hundreds of thousands of people in 14 nations whose lives were shattered.

TIKAL, Guatemala, (Reuters) – At the center of the rebel base where Luke Skywalker took off to destroy the Death Star and save his people from the clutches of Darth Vader, Guatemala is preparing for another momentous event: the end of an age for the Maya.

WASHINGTON (TrustLaw) – Crime, corruption and tax evasion have cost the developing world nearly $6 trillion over the past decade, and illicit funds keep growing, led by China, a financial watchdog group said in a new report.

FAIRFIELD/NEWTOWN, Conn (Reuters) – One boy was buried in his hero’s football jersey in a small white coffin.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Ghana has put forward the first official candidate to succeed Pascal Lamy as head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), nominating its former Trade Minister Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s new president yesterday unveiled his strategy to curb drug-related violence that blighted the rule of his predecessor, announcing special units to combat kidnapping and extortion and promising to focus more on crime prevention.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, a decorated veteran of World War Two and one of the longest-serving members of Congress, died yesterday at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez swept nearly all of Venezuela’s 23 states in yesterday’s regional vote, but Henrique Capriles consolidated his position as top opposition leader by winning re-election as governor.

NEWTOWN, Conn., (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday consoled the Connecticut town shattered by the massacre of 20 young schoolchildren and said the United States was not doing enough to protect its children.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syrian fighter jets bombed the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus yesterday, killing at least 25 people sheltering in a mosque in an area where Syrian rebels have been trying to advance into the capital, opposition activists said.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) – Police released the names yesterday of 26 people shot dead in the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school a day earlier, including 20 children ages 6 and 7, in an incident that stands as one of the worst mass shootings in US history.

NEWTOWN, Conn (Reuters) – Elementary school library clerk Mary Ann Jacob heard gunshots and shouted “Lockdown!”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who cancelled an overseas trip last weekend because of illness, suffered a concussion after fainting due to dehydration, prompting the postponement of her scheduled congressional testimony on the attack on a US mission in Libya, officials said yesterday.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian government defectors and opposition figures formed a body yesterday that would step in to prevent the collapse of state institutions if President Bashar al-Assad is overthrown.