Articles by Kwame Mensah
Israel Accuses Hezbollah of ‘dangerous Provocation’
Israel on Thursday accused its Lebanese arch-foe Hezbollah of expanding observation posts along the border under the...
EU Leaders Urge Internet Giants To Fight Online Extremism
EU leaders on Thursday urged Internet firms to do their utmost to combat online extremism promoting attacks or face the...
New York Mayor Unveils Plan To Close Notorious Jail Complex
Shuttering New York's Rikers Island complex will be no small task, but the city's mayor unveiled plans Thursday to make...
Qatar Ideal First Diplomatic Crisis For Oilman Tillerson
The Qatar crisis presents Rex Tillerson with his first challenge as Washington's top diplomat and an opportunity for...
Ebola Burial Teams Dramatically West Africa Outbreak
Red Cross volunteers prevented a significant number of Ebola cases during the 2013-2016 epidemic in West Africa by...
Actress Emma Watson Takes Feminist Book Happening To Paris
"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson spent Thursday hiding copies of Margaret Atwood's classic novel "The Handmaid's Tale"...
Egypt Extends State of Emergency
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church bombings in April by...
Zimbabwe Begins Mass Transfer of Animals To Mozambique
The animals won't travel two-by-two, but thousands of safari stalwarts will soon begin their journeys from Zimbabwe to...
CIA Penetrated By Insider Network of Candy Thieves
The Central Intelligence Agency admitted this week that it had been compromised for months in 2013 by a network of...
Trump Says He Does Not Have Tapes of Comey Meetings
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not have recordings of his meetings with former FBI director James...
Milligan Penalty Rescues Confederations Cup Draw For Australia
Australia captain Mark Milligan converted a second-half penalty in Thursday's 1-1 draw with Cameroon in Saint...
Merkel Slaps Down May On Brexit Talks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted Thursday that the EU's future take priority over Brexit talks as Prime...
India Separatist Charged With Murder Amid Darjeeling Unrest
Indian police on Thursday charged a separatist leader and his wife for their involvement in a murder and arson, after...
Multinational Forces Could Patrol Syria ‘de-Escalation Zones’
Turkey on Thursday said multinational forces from differing sides in the Syria conflict could be deployed to ensure...
Macron Unveils France’s New Realpolitik For Syria
Recalibrating France's long-held policy of insisting that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad must step down, President...
S.Sudan To Lift Ban On Foreign Journalists
South Sudan's media authority will lift a ban on around 20 foreign journalists who had been refused access to the...
Ireland and Afghanistan Join Test Elite
Ireland and Afghanistan were awarded Test match status on Thursday, taking the number of countries playing at the...
China Orders Halt To Video Streaming On Major Websites
China's media oversight body announced Thursday that it has ordered three prominent Internet companies to terminate...
India’s Opposition Pitch Dalit For President
Opposition parties Thursday picked a former parliament speaker from India's lowest Dalit caste as their presidential...
Morocco Busts ‘IS-Linked Cell Plotting Tourist Attacks’
Authorities in Morocco on Thursday dismantled a suspected "terrorist cell" linked to the Islamic State group and...