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In confirming its probe, the Commission released a statement today saying it was being done in keeping with the provisions of the Integrity in Public Life Act.

Local officials say the men are believed to have been poisoned by other inmates at the Santo Andre jail.

Portugal's highest court has ruled that the Government's plan to make it easier to sack public servants is unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration ann-ounced new steps yesterday on gun control, curbing the import of military -surplus weapons and proposing to close a loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has announced that her Cabinet will be reshuffled within two weeks.

Prime Minster David Cameron said it was clear Parliament does not want action and the government will act accordingly.

Brokerage giant Merrill Lynch has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit for US$160 million, which could affect as many as 1,200 employees in the US.

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados is the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to have made a request of the social-networking website, Facebook, for information regarding how its nationals use the facility.Facebook has for the first time published data...

US President Barack Obama has linked the ongoing struggle for economic equality in America with the goals of the 1963 March on Washington, in a speech marking its 50th anniversary.

LOS ANGELES (AP):A former South Korean law enforcement officer living in Los Angeles has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle nearly 40,000 phony erectile dysfunction pills into the United States.

WASHINGTON (AP): Millions of at-risk students could fall through the cracks as the Education Department gives states permission to ignore parts of No Child Left Behind, according to a study education advocates released yestetday.

BANDER SERI BEGAWAN (AP):United States (US) forces are now ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel disclosed yesterday.