Articles by Kwame Mensah
17 Members of Same Indian Family Found Dead In Floods
Seventeen members of the same Indian family were found dead Wednesday as floodwaters receded from a village in Gujarat,...
Philippines To Abolish Agency Hunting Marcos Plunder
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's government plans to abolish the agency tasked with recovering the billions of...
Egypt Squatters Lose Homes As State Seizes Land
Hala Gamal looks at a pile of rubble on Cairo's Warraq island -- all that's left of her house after a police operation...
Standoff At Jerusalem Holy Site After Metal Detectors Removed
A tense standoff was underway between Israel and Muslim worshippers at a Jerusalem holy site Wednesday despite the...
Philippines To Consult ASEAN On Joint China Sea Oil Search
The Philippines tried Wednesday to reassure Southeast Asian neighbours about its proposal to partner with Beijing in...
80% of Yemen Children In Need of Immediate Aid
A vicious combination of war, cholera and hunger has left 80 percent of Yemeni children in desperate need of aid, the...
US Quartet Smash 4x100m Medley Record At World Champs
The United States broke the world record for the mixed 4x100m medley relay at the world aquatic championships in...
Thais Free 1,066 Turtles To Celebrate King’s Birthday
Hundreds of Thai schoolchildren and naval officers sent 1,066 turtles scuttling into the sea on Wednesday in a ceremony...
China To Change State-Owned Firms Into Corporations
China said Wednesday it would move to transform all state-owned companies into corporations by the end of this year, as...
10 Kidnapped On Nigeria Oil Exploration Mission
Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped 10 members of an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria,...
Top Chinese Clubs Pay Debts After Expulsion Threat
Ten Chinese Super League clubs say they have paid off debts related to player wages, bonuses and transfers after 13 of...
Syrian Civilians Fleeing IS In Raqa Turn To Smugglers
Civilians fleeing the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa are paying smugglers to lead them out of the city...
Clashes Rock Syria Truce Zone
Clashes erupted overnight in a rebel-held enclave outside Damascus, which was also hit by government air strikes...
With Veggie Cake and Jazz, Manatee Celebrates Birthday In Style
To the strains of upbeat jazz and with a vegetable cake laid on as a special treat, Canola the Singaporean manatee...
Denying Husbands Sex Is Abuse
A Malaysian lawmaker came under fire Wednesday for saying that women who deny their husbands sex were subjecting them...
Iran Will Respond In Kind To US Breaches of Nuclear Deal
President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran would respond in kind to any breach by the United States of the...
Qatar Says New Saudi Bloc Blacklist ‘disappointing’
Qatar said on Wednesday that a new blacklist released by Saudi Arabia and its allies came as a "disappointing surprise"...
26 Afghan Soldiers Killed In Taliban Attack On Kandahar Base
At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar...
EU Court Upholds Hamas Terror Listing
The European Union's top court on Wednesday upheld the bloc's decision to put Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on...
Indian Super League Teams Eligible For AFC Cup
Asia's football governing body has dealt a major boost to the Indian Super League by ruling that its franchise-based...