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HELICOPTER gunships buzzed over the Jamaican capital last night as police and soldiers clashed for a second day with masked gunmen seeking to prevent the extradition of an alleged drug baron to the United States. […] […]

KABUL—Seven people were arrested in Afghanistan over last week’s suicide car bombing that killed six NATO soldiers — including three American colonels and a Canadian colonel. A total of 18 people were killed in the […] […]

Canadian travellers are being advised not to visit Kingston, Jamaica, after at least three people were killed in an outbreak of violence by suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces extradition to the […] […]

NEW CITY, N.Y. — It wasn’t quite man-bites-dog, but there were men and there were dogs and there was biting. A sheriff’s office said today that one man bit another during a fight over a […] […]

A court yesterday heard a 13-year-old girl tell how she was forced to smoke cannabis before being raped by a man she had met while walking in a park. The girl, who cannot be named […] […]

THREE people were killed by current or former mental health patients in Notts last year, a report has revealed. Two of the people were using mental health services at the time of the deaths, and […] […]

Two people have been arrested after a teenage girl was shot in a drive-by shooting in Moss Side. The 17-year-old was hit in the elbow.  A second victim, a 20-year-old man, was hit in the […] […]

THE Government yesterday placed Jamaica’s capital city under a limited State of Public Emergency in response to acts of anarchy by gunmen determined to prevent Tivoli Gardens don, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke from being arrested for […] […]

A WOMAN burnt incense and put on the air-conditioner to hide the stench of her husband’s decomposing body at their family home on the Sunshine Coast, a court has heard. Susan Falls, 42, has pleaded […] […]

SHANGHAI, China (CMC) — Usain Bolt marked his debut in the IAAF Diamond League yesterday with another comfortable victory in the men’s 200 metres at the Olympic Football Stadium here. The Jamaican sprint sensation jogged […] […]