Articles by Kwame Mensah
US New Home Sales Cool In April
Sales of new US homes experienced a sharp slowdown in April after a record rate in March, with prices also falling, the...
Militant Behind Multiple Pakistan Attacks Arrested
Pakistani officials claimed Tuesday they have arrested the mastermind behind several attacks that killed scores of...
India Fires On Pakistani Military Posts, Army Says
India announced Tuesday it had fired mortars at Pakistani army posts across their disputed border in Kashmir, a rare...
Warning of Growing Tunisia Tensions After Protester Death
Tunisian officials warned Tuesday that tensions in the country's south could escalate following a protester's death...
US Astronauts On ‘critical’ Spacewalk To Replace Power Box
Two US astronauts embarked Tuesday on what NASA described as a "critical" spacewalk to repair a failed piece of...
Lawmakers Ditch Probe of Outspoken Nigerian Ruler
Lawmakers in Kano state, northern Nigeria, have indefinitely suspended a probe into allegations of graft against one of...
Five Dead In Syria Car Bomb Attacks Claimed By IS
Five people were killed on Tuesday in two car bomb attacks targeting minority neighbourhoods in Syria and claimed by...
Spanish Climber Sets New Everest Record
Spanish mountaineer Kilian Jornet has set a record for the fastest ascent of Mount Everest without fixed ropes or...
Myanmar Top Buddhist Body Muzzles Hardline Group
Myanmar's top Buddhist body has ordered hardline group Ma Ba Tha to remove all public displays, according to a document...
Morocco Fishermen Decry ‘El Negro’ Dolphin Attacks
In Morocco's northern port city of Al-Hoceima, fishermen are clamouring for state support for a struggling sector which...
Philippine Forces Hunt Top IS-Linked Militant
Philippine security forces hunting one of the world's most-wanted Islamist militants were battling gunmen in a southern...
Greece To Clear Last Makeshift Refugee Camp In Athens
Efforts are underway to remove hundreds of refugees from an unhygienic makeshift camp at an ex-Olympics facility in...
Deadliest Month For Syria Civilians In US-Led Strikes
US-led air strikes on Syria killed a total of 225 civilians over the past month, a monitor said on Tuesday, the highest...
Palestinian Stabs Israeli Officer, Is Shot
A Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded a border policeman in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on Tuesday before...
Bahrain Police Fire On Shiite Protest, One Reported Dead
Bahraini police opened fire Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator...
China Eatery In Japan Soars On Pregnant Panda Hopes
Swelling hopes for a baby panda in Tokyo have bumped up the stock price of a Chinese restaurant chain in the area, with...
China’s Trade With N.Korea Falls As Pressure Mounts
China's imports from North Korea fell in April to a near three-year low, data showed Tuesday, as Beijing faces calls to...
Protester Killed As Police Raid Bahrain Sit-In
A protester was killed Tuesday in a Bahraini police raid on a sit-in by supporters of a leading Shiite cleric put on...
S. Korea Fires Warning Shots At Object Flown From N. Korea
South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday at a flying object that entered the country's airspace from North Korea across...
Car Bomb Kills Four In Syria’s Homs
A car bomb killed four people and wounded more than two dozen in Syria's third city Homs on Tuesday, state media said,...