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March 3, 2011

Libya: Spending oil money across the globe

In the span of a few years, Libya's financial tendrils have reached across oceans, across…

March 3, 2011

US Supreme Court allows anti-gay funeral protests

The US Supreme Court has ruled an anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals under the US constitution's free speech protections. The court ruled 8-1 for the Westboro Baptist Church, throwing out an earlier $5m (£3m) judgement…

March 3, 2011

Ivory Coast: Power and water cut to pro-Ouattara north

Electricity and water have been cut to northern Ivory Coast - a region traditionally opposed to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, the UN says. A UN official said the power company had said the supplies appears to have been cut for political…

March 3, 2011

Taliban: Pakistani minister killed over stance on blasphemy law

A Pakistani government minister who had said he was getting death threats because of his opposition to a controversial blasphemy law was shot to death Wednesday. Shahbaz Bhatti was the only Christian member of the Cabinet in Pakistan, where 95…

March 3, 2011

Nearly 260 Haitian migrants picked up at sea in Bahamas

Almost 260 Haitian migrants were apprehended by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force…

March 3, 2011

Hundreds of Caribbean teachers in a quandary in New York

Hundreds of teachers who left the Caribbean several years ago to work in New York are now in a quandary, since they were misled when recruited by New York City schools. A BBC Caribbean report stated that promises of “green cards” (legal…

March 3, 2011

Protesters defy police at rally in Trinidad

Public servants in Port of Spain, Trinidad, defied the police and risked arrest on Tuesday when they formed a human barricade at the public entrance of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and later converged near the Parliament's entrance at…

March 3, 2011

22 new charges for U.S. WikiLeaks suspect

The U.S. Army Wednesday notified Pfc. Bradley Manning, a prime suspect in the WikiLeaks case, that he now faces 22 more charges in connection with allegedly downloading secret information from computers in Iraq. The most serious new charge…

March 3, 2011

AG: Machel has my vote for Soca Monarch

ATTORNEY General Anand Ramlogan says he would not be surprised if Machel Montano…

March 3, 2011

Dr. Conrad Murray Trail Gets Delayed by Judge

Dr. Conrad Murray, charged in the death of Michael Jackson will have to wait a while…