The Daily Reflector, Sunday, December 4, 2011 A�

georgetown, guyana

New leader offers compromiseGuyana’s new president has been sworn

in, pledging that his minority government will work with an opposition-controlled Parliament in the South American coun-try.

Donald Ramotar said Saturday that he would consult with leaders of other po-litical groups and name a Cabinet in 48 hours.

Ramotar’s East Indian-dominated Peo-ple’s Progressive Party won the most seats in Monday’s elections but did not obtain an absolute majority. The ruling party won 32 seats, four less than it had in the last parliament. The opposition Partner-ship For National Unity has 26 seats, a gain of four, and the Alliance For Change has seven, a gain of two.

new york pittsburgh

Palestinian suit in rural Pa. townThe Palestine Liberation Organization

said it wants a Christian convert and au-thor of the book “Son of Hamas” to turn over all details of his work trying to stop terrorist attacks.

Mosab Hassan Yousef is a former Is-raeli spy who says he posed as a terrorist in that job. He has been granted asylum in the United States.

The PLO surprised him with a subpoe-na last month during a talk at an evangeli-cal church in western Pennsylvania.

The legal wrangling is part of a lawsuit filed against the PLO by victims of seven terror attacks or their relatives.

They said the PLO was involved in some of the attacks and is responsible for damages.

maiduguri, nigeria

Gunmen kill 2 during weddingAn army official said that suspected

Muslim sect members have shot and killed two people during a wedding cer-emony in Nigeria’s restive northeast.

Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh Mohammed, a military spokesman based in the area, said Saturday that three others were wounded by stray bullets and are being treated at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

He blamed the attack on the radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram. He said the gunmen came in unmarked ve-hicles with Kalashnikov rifles. Among the two dead is a former councilor of the Maiduguri Metropolitan Council of Bor-no state. Mohammed said no arrests have been made.

From Associated Press reports

Farms and stores in New York City are finding creative ways to temporarily use unkept areas by stalled building lots.

NatioN & WoRLD

NATO says 3 service troops killed in eastern Afghanistan

The Associate Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bombing killed three NATO ser-vice members Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.

The coalition recently shifted its focus from southern Afghanistan to the east, where militants are fighting Afghan and coalition troops along the long, porous border with Pakistan.

The exact location of the bombing was not disclosed, nor were the nationalities of the dead.

So far this year, 519 NATO service members have been killed through-out Afghanistan, includ-ing at least 389 Ameri-cans.

In another situation, the tribal elders in Logar province, also in the east, continued to negotiate with insurgents on Sat-urday in an effort to free eight Pakistani laborers

kidnapped by militants in the area on Thursday, provincial spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh said.

Darwesh said they were kidnapped by a gunman on a motorcycle who had ambushed a bus carrying the laborers to work at a hospital construction site in Pul-e-Alam, the pro-vincial capital.

The assailants later took the kidnapped vic-tims into the woods at gunpoint.