US Republican efforts to reform health care hit the skids Thursday when three senators threatened to oppose a partial repeal of Obamacare unless House leaders pledged to negotiate further, leaving a...
A total of 1,000 children who either dropped out of school or have never been in a classroom before have undergone a nine-month training in complementary basic education in Garu Tempane District of...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, 93, has been urged by his wife to name his successor in order to end divisions over who the next leader will be. The president should not be “afraid” to...
A 24-year old woman has been sentenced to death by a Kumasi High Court for the murder of a little boy – the only child of his mother. Talata Baana poisoned the three-year boy at Nkawie in the...
A troubled genius working to save lives or a compulsive liar who defrauded investors? A US jury heard closing arguments Thursday in the securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli, a pharmaceutical...
US officials Thursday hailed the arrest and indictment of a Russian accused of laundering billions of dollars through a Bitcoin exchange he operated. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said cracking...
Internet colossus Amazon on Thursday reported profit shrank in the recently ended quarter despite surging sales as it poured money into growth. The US-based company said that net sales increased 25...
The UN Security Council on Thursday endorsed a plan agreed by Libya's rival leaders for a ceasefire, political talks and elections, in the latest attempt to put an end to six years of chaos in the...
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson has bemoaned the low levels of exports from Ghana to the US. He argues that Ghanaian producers have not taken full advantage of the African Growth and...
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, on Thursday, paid a visit to the National Service Scheme’s Dahwenya Farm in the Greater Accra Region. The visit was to afford the...
The White House on Thursday abandoned a proposal to create a border adjustment tax which it had touted as a way of dealing with unfair competition from imports, but was strongly opposed by US...
Authorities in Ivory Coast have seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales worth an estimated $82,000, in what officials on Thursday called a "massacre". Eight men of various African...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged the government in the Maldives to lift a blockade of parliament where troops have barred the opposition from taking their seats. Guterres...
Human Rights Watch on Thursday hailed a new law to fight domestic violence in Tunisia as a "landmark step" towards protecting women's rights but called for funding to fully implement it. The law,...
Church of Pentecost (CoP) Teshie Nungua Area Women’s Ministry has inaugurated a resource centre to train young unemployed women to become self-sufficient. Constructed at the cost of Gh¢420,000,...
A group of former separatist rebels in Mali killed "dozens" of members of a pro-government armed group before a UN helicopter monitoring the fighting crashed in the country's north, sources told AFP...
Authorities in eastern Libya backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar on Thursday ordered the closure of a Sudanese consulate and the expulsion of 12 diplomats, a pro-Haftar news agency announced....
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Mr. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has ordered the closure of the Koforidua-Mamfe Akuapim road. This is to allow for the construction of a bailey bridge to replace the...
The 2016 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey report has been launched in Accra. The report shows Ghana is making progress in the fight against Malaria. However, a lot more needs to be done to achieve...
A new board for the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) has been sworn into office to manage the affairs of rights owner for the next four years. Chaired by Rex Owusu Marfo, known in...
