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PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Lawmakers rejected  Haitian President Michel Martelly’s new choice for prime  minister yesterday, blocking his efforts to install a  government and move ahead with rebuilding a country shattered  by last year’s earthquake.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian forces kept up attacks on  Hama for a third day, residents said, while U.S.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala yesterday  sentenced four soldiers to 6,060 years of prison each, in the  first conviction for a massacre during the country’s brutal  36-year civil war.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Stuart Kuttner, who ran the News  of the World’s finances for 22 years as managing editor, was  arrested yesterday over a phone-hacking scandal at the  now-defunct tabloid which has rattled the British establishment,  a source close to the case said.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A French magistrate has decided to  decided to send giant oil company Total and its chief executive  to trial on charges that the company engaged in corruption  during the United Nations oil-for-food program in Saddam  Hussein’s Iraq, a judicial source said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities have  captured two leaders of a 20-ton-per-year cocaine operation  that sent drug-laden submarines to the world’s top drug  consumer, the United States, local police said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – State governments would have  to identify persons forming corporations under legislation that  was reintroduced yesterday in the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The House of Representatives  yesterday approved a last-gasp deal to raise the U.S.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian government forces pressed    their assault on anti-government protestors in the city of Hama    yesterday oblivious to a wave of condemnation from Western    powers.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A technology firm has told British  legislators it was aware of the deletion of hundreds of  thousands of emails at the request of News Corp unit  News International between April 2010 and last month,  parliamentarian Keith Vaz said on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters)  The famine in the Horn of  Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more  regions of the lawless nation of Somalia, the U.N.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Emily formed near  the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles islands yetserday, far from oil  and gas-production facilities in the U.S.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba will revise its travel and  immigration rules as part of a broader reform of its economic  and social policies, Cuban President Raul Castro said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday sued to block enforcement of Alabama’s new immigration  law, widely considered to be the toughest measure in the United  States to try to crack down on illegal immigrants.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  appeared on television yesterday with his head closely shaved  and bald patches from hair loss caused by chemotherapy for a  cancer that has slowed him ahead of a re-election bid.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Leftist Colombian rebels still  have a presence in neighbouring Venezuela, the head of  Colombia’s armed forces said yesterday in a statement that  could cause renewed friction with the OPEC nation.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  yesterday read excerpts of a letter sent to him by Libya’s  Muammar Gaddafi expressing gratitude for strong support during  the NATO-backed rebellion against his government.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday announced a last-minute deal to raise the U.S.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrians began the Muslim Ramadan  fast in sombre mood today after troops stormed into Hama,  scene of a 1982 massacre, in one of the bloodiest days of a  five-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer  said on Sunday Afghan militants of the anti-American Haqqani  network were finding it harder to move into Afghanistan but  warned that their safe havens in Pakistan still posed a risk to  the decade-old war effort.