Azruddin Mohamed’s election comes six months after he formed political party that became country’s second largest

A Guyanese businessman facing extradition to the US on gold-smuggling and money-laundering charges has been elected as the country’s opposition leader, six months after he formed a political party that quickly became the second largest in the South American country.

Azruddin Mohamed, 38, was confirmed as Guyana’s opposition leader after 16 lawmakers from the We Invest in Nationhood party (Win) and another from a single-seat outfit voted in his favor. The tally made Win the second-largest party in parliament, securing Mohamed’s election even as a magistrate’s court hears state arguments for his extradition to the US.

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Police say Rebecca Rauber was found covered in snow from the storm that hit over the weekend

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Aftermath of shooting prompts bizarre role reversal as White House assails victim for carrying pistol with permit

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Plans to withdraw and new oversight from Tom Homan follow mass protests, declining public opinion polls, and lawsuits demanding and end to administration’s surge

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Alex Pretti, a Minnesota nurse, is the sixth person to die during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in the U.S. Federal authorities immediately said Pretti was a threat to federal officers

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During Trump’s first term, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a federal permit approving the project

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The longstanding Republican policy — which the US president has now substantially broadened — restricted organisations receiving US funding from performing or promoting abortion

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Jennifer Mnookin will be Columbia's fifth leader in the past four years

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State officials push back against ‘reckless’ and ‘inaccurate’ statements about law enforcement in the state

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Chris Madel represented Jonathan Ross, the immigration agent who killed mother-of-three Renee Good

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European retailers urge traders to adhere to commitments after Brazilian lawmakers wreck forest protection pact

Leading British and European retailers are trying to salvage the core elements of the Amazon soy moratorium after the world’s most successful forest protection agreement was wrecked by Brazilian lawmakers and abandoned by international traders.

In an open letter, high street brands including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda say the breakdown this month of the 20-year-old agreement will damage consumer confidence unless new arrangements are put in place to ensure grain production is not linked to deforestation.

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Some parts of city were buried under nearly 60cm of snow and over 500 flights were cancelled Sunday

Toronto is beginning to dig itself out from the largest snowfall in the city’s history, a process which officials say is likely to take “several days”.

Some parts of Canada’s largest city were buried under nearly 60cm (about 23in) of snow and more than 500 flights were cancelled Sunday after Toronto’s main airport was snowed in.

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The Dallas-Fort Worth area saw anywhere from one to five inches of snow and sleet over the weekend

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Aiming to shake up the Golden State’s media landscape, the California Post has launched a new tabloid newspaper and news site that brings a brash, cheeky and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple to the West Coast

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Live data showed that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee were worst-affected by electricity cuts, while Boston Logan International has so far been the worst-hit airport, with 298 flights canceled on Monday

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While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports

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A U.S. judge on Monday is due to consider a request to temporarily stop Operation Metro Surge

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The U.S. is taking a minority stake in an Oklahoma rare earth miner, the latest government investment in the sector as it seeks to minimize its reliance on imports of a material used prevalently in smartphones, robotics, electric vehicles and many other high tech products

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An audio recording of air traffic controllers indicates that a private jet that crashed at Maine's Bangor International Airport flipped over soon after takeoff

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The group of friends was asked to leave by staff even though they said the brawlers were not part of their party, in what they have described as a humiliating act of racial discrimination, but the restaurant rejects what it describes as a “false attack.”

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Around six in 10 technology workers report frequent AI use, with three in 10 utilizing it daily

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