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WORLD NEWSSaturday 26 September

Venezuela: CARIBBEAN
News Briefs
Maduro says he’ll meet with Guyana leader at UN
Sheraton casino
CARACAS, Venezuela television late Thursday was reported by state me- tice. Venezuela has long to close in Puerto
that the meeting will take dia on Friday morning. claimed a jungle area Rico’s San Juan
(AP) — Venezuelan Presi- place in the framework of Granger is expected to known as the Essequibo
the United Nations General address the issue Friday at that comprises about 40 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
dent Nicolas Maduro says Assembly, with the support the U.N. General Assembly percent of Guyana’s ter- — Another casino is closing
ritory. The socialist country in Puerto Rico as the U.S. ter-
that he plans to meet with reasserted those claims ritory struggles through nine
this year after a subsidiary years of economic stagna-
Guyanese President David of Exxon Mobil Corp. an- tion. A spokeswoman for
nounced a significant oil Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks with Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, on a discovery off the coast of said Friday that the Sheraton
Guyana. Old San Juan Hotel & Casi-
government balcony, in Quito, Ecuador. Maduro says that he plans to meet with Guyanese Since then, the two sides no will be sold to an affiliate
have scaled back on their of Tishman Hotel Corpora-
President David Granger in New York to discuss a border dispute between the two South shared commerce. tion. The hotel is located in
Guyana was conduct- the historic district of Puerto
American neighbors. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe) ing military exercises amid Rico’s capital. Officials said
the border flap on Friday. the casino will be turned into
Granger in New York to of U.N. Secretary General gathering. He previously Hundreds of soldiers as- retail space. They said leases
discuss a border dispute Ban Ki-moon. The U.N. did said that he no longer sembled on all military are being negotiated and
between the two South not immediately comment wants the dispute handled bases as they prepared to that details will be released
American neighbors. on the meeting. by a U.N. mediator and will march through the capital soon. Starwood said the ca-
Maduro said in a state- The Venezuelan presi- seek intervention from the of Georgetown and other sino will be closed to ensure
ment broadcast on state dent’s arrival in New York International Court of Jus- nearby towns. Guyana’s the hotel’s financial stability.
government said troops It would be the eighth ca-
will also stage parachute sino to close in Puerto Rico in
jumps outside the capital. the past five years.q
Granger had accused
Maduro this week of mass- Couple in Puerto
ing troops on the border. Rico held on incest
But Guyana Chief of Staff
Brig. Gen Mark Phillips said child trafficking
Friday that the military was
monitoring possible troop SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
movements by Venezuela — A Puerto Rico couple has
and “there is no evidence been charged with prostitu-
of any increase on the tion, incest and human traf-
Venezuelan side.”q ficking in a case authorities
say involved their four young
Police fire tear gas to quell protesters in Kashmir children. Police said Friday
that the 30-year-old suspects
AIJAZ HUSSAIN in Srinagar and at least two ning Friday, as a measure The 1932 law made the are accused of prostituting
Associated Press other places in the region. to stop Muslim protesters slaughter of cows punish- their 11-year-old daughter
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — One person suffered criti- from uploading pictures of able by up to 10 years’ in front of the other children
Government forces on cal injuries and was hospi- animal sacrifices, especial- imprisonment and a fine. who range in age from 6 to
Friday fired tear gas and talized after he was hit by ly slaughter of cows which Indian authorities did not 9 years old. The couple was
used batons to quell thou- a tear gas shell in Sopore, are worshipped by Hindus. enforce the law for about identified as Kenneth Marti-
sands of anti-India pro- a town 50 kilometers (30 Tension has been building seven decades. nez and Tanya Figueroa. It is
testers who turned violent miles) northwest of Srina- in the region after a court Kashmir is mainly Muslim, unclear if they have an at-
after Eid prayers in various gar, the main city in the two weeks ago upheld a while the majority of peo- torney. A third unidentified
mosques in the Indian por- Indian portion of Kashmir, a colonial-era law banning ple in the rest of India are person has been charged
tion of Kashmir, police said. police officer said on con- slaughtering of cows and Hindus who hold cows sa- in the case but not arrested.
The protesters, waving dition of anonymity as he selling beef in the region, a cred. Police said they investigat-
Pakistani and pro-militant was not authorized to talk decision resented by Mus- Insurgent groups have ed after receiving multiple
flags and chanting pro- to reporters. lims. been fighting for Kashmir’s complaints from neighbors
independence slogans, Authorities tightened secu- The Jammu-Kashmir state independence from In- in the southern town of San
hurled stones at govern- rity and blocked all mobile government in the Indian dia or its merger with Lorenzo. Police said the al-
ment forces who tried to and landline Internet ser- portion is likely to appeal neighboring Pakistan since leged abuse occurred from
stop them from marching vices for two days, begin- the court ruling 1989.q 2013 to 2015. q