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WASHINGTON (AP):Legislation to punish Venezuela's government for human rights abuses is advancing in Congress despite objections from the Obama administration.

MEXICO CITY (AP):Environmentalists say the only living hard coral reef in the Gulf of California is once again under threat, just two years after activists persuaded the government to block construction of a huge 30,000-room resort nearby.

The Venezuela government has announced the start of electricity rationing in western Zulia state.

NAIROBI (AP):Horrific, ethnically motivated attacks of physical and sexual violence launched in South Sudan by warring parties constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International disclosed yesterday...

NAIROBI (AP):Weak and erratic rains, military conflict and little aid funding from the international community could lead to mass hunger in Somalia, aid groups warned yesterday....

GENEVA (CMC):New United Nations data show that Barbados and Haiti are among 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have made significant progress in reducing deaths from pregnancy-related causes since 1990....

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama said the United States will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened...

LUCKNOW (AP):Of the dozens of criminal charges Atiq Ahmed faces, the one blaming him for the murder of a political rival tops the list.

The White House says a US team will head to Nigeria as soon as possible to aid in the search for nearly 300 teenage girls abducted from their school more than three weeks ago.

LAGOS (AP): Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader threatened in a videotaped statement seen yesterday to sell the more than 200 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast of the country three weeks ago....

St George's:China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Americas is ramping up its hiring of locals in the Caribbean, as work on a number of infrastructure development projects across the region are now in high gear.

President Park Geun-hye met relatives of those on board yesterday and vowed that those responsible for the April 16 tragedy would be punished severely.