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(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs must give an “immediate explanation” as to why the offices of Newsday and the home of its political reporter Andre Bagoo were raided, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

AMMAN/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Bomb attacks killed at least 28 people in Syria’s second city Aleppo yesterday, while Homs endured another day of shelling  and a firefight broke out in Damascus, the nearest violence to the centre of the capital in an 11-month uprising.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – London’s U.N. ambassador warned Argentina yesterday that Britain would “robustly” defend the Falkland Islands if necessary, but added that his country remained open to bilateral talks with Buenos Aires on any issue except the islands’ sovereignty.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – With growing worries about the threat of “cyber warfare”, militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st century.

AMMAN/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syrian government artillery barrages killed dozens of civilians in Homs yesterday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by Russian support, ignored appeals from world leaders to halt the carnage.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Supreme Court disbarred crusading Judge Baltasar Garzon for 11 years yesterday for illegally recording defence lawyers’ conversations with clients, which may effectively end his career in international human rights trials.

ROME, (Reuters) – Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project yesterday to help clergy around the world root out paedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Syria’s army pounded the rebel city of Homs as Turkey sought international action to protect civilians from former ally President Bashar al-Assad, a move that risks the wrath of Russia and China.

MALE,  (Reuters) – The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean islands, said yesterday he had been forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between police and angry supporters.

BUENOS AIRES/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s president accused Britain of “militarizing the South Atlantic” and said she would complain to the United Nations, as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

INAPARI, Peru, (Reuters) – Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and rebels said his forces killed over 100 in the city of Homs.

MALE, (Reuters) – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean archipelago, resigned yesterday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Russia’s U.N. Ambassador yesterday denounced as lies a report that he had threatened Qatar with annihilation during an argument with the Gulf state’s prime minister over a draft Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed by Moscow.

SALVADOR, Brazil, (Reuters) – A toll of 115 murders and widespread looting, assaults and vandalism in the past week are roiling Brazil’s third-biggest city, casting doubts over upcoming carnival celebrations and raising questions about security ahead of the 2014 World Cup.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Two Ecuadorean journalists have been sentenced to pay $1 million each in damages for libeling socialist President Rafael Correa, who faces mounting criticism he uses courts to muzzle media.

(Reuters) – Farmers in developing nations will sow more biotech crops than those in the industrialized world for the first time this year, with Brazil leading the charge, according to a report issued yesterday that showed steady growth in the use of genetically modified seeds.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are building a steel and concrete barrier 300 feet (90 meters) out into the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego to curb dangerous attempts by illegal immigrants and smugglers to slip through the breakers to California.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The death toll from the weekend capsizing of a boat ferrying migrants from the Dominican Republic to the neighboring island of Puerto Rico climbed to at least 21 and about 30 still are missing, authorities said yesterday.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Four members of Ghana’s political elite were charged with corruption on Monday, threatening to further tarnish the ruling party’s reputation in election year following the departure of two senior ministers last month.