Articles by Kwame Mensah
US House Passes One-Week Stopgap To Avoid Govt Shutdown
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a stopgap spending bill Friday, sending it to the Senate, which will...
Clashes At Protests To Support Palestinian Hunger Strikers
Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers across the occupied West Bank on Friday in support of hundreds of...
Rescued Taiwanese Hiker Marks Sombre Birthday In Nepal
A Taiwanese trekker who was rescued on a Nepal mountainside seven weeks after going missing marked his 21st birthday in...
Lagos Government Rescues Over 200 Abandoned Babies
The government of Nigeria's Lagos state has said it has rescued 237 abandoned babies - 106 male and 131 female - over...
Man Utd To Honour Nigeria Electrocution Victims
Manchester United has revealed plans to honour the Nigerian fans who died in a freak accident last week while watching...
I Miss My Old Life
US President Donald Trump has been talking about his previous life and how surprised he is that his new job at the...
Ecclestone Made Us ‘look Like Idiots’
Bernie Ecclestone was accused Friday of having "made us look like idiots" by the chief executive of Malaysia's Sepang...
US Growth Hits 3-Year Low At 0.7% In Trump’s 1st Quarter
US growth slowed to its lowest level in three years in the first quarter as consumer spending and government...
Pope Francis Visits Egypt To Promote ‘unity and Fraternity’
Pope Francis began a visit to Egypt on Friday to promote "unity and fraternity" among Muslims and the embattled...
US Doesn’t Rule Out Direct Talks With North Korea
The United States is not ruling out direct dialogue with North Korea on its nuclear program, Secretary of State Rex...
Chemical Weapons Allegedly Used 45 Times In Syria
Experts from the world's watchdog tasked with destroying chemical weapons are probing reports that toxic arms have been...
Female Islamic Clerics In Indonesia Issue Rare Child Marriage Fatwa
Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia have issued an unprecedented fatwa against child marriage. The fatwa, which is not...
Google and Facebook Duped In Huge ‘scam’
The two tech giants succumbed to a well known type of scam, in which an attacker tricks the victim Google and Facebook...
Pope Francis Lands In Egypt In Push For Religious Tolerance
Pope Francis landed in the Egyptian capital on Friday to promote dialogue with Muslims and support the country's...
Rap, A Universal Language, In Service of Endangered Ones
Rap has been called a universal language -- but it can also be a tool to preserve languages at risk. In small...
Eurozone Inflation Picks Up To 1.9%
Inflation in the eurozone accelerated in April, returning to the European Central Bank (ECB)'s target. Initial...
Suicide Car Bomb Targets Military Convoy In Nigeria
A suicide car bomber has attacked a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, killing five soldiers and injuring another...
Trump and Xi In
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump have been in "constant touch", Beijing said Friday,...
Ancelotti’s Bayern Future Not Discussed – Rummenigge
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge insists there is no need to discuss the future of coach Carlo Ancelotti....
Palestinian ‘day of Rage’ In Support of Prisoners
Palestinians prepared for a "day of rage" across the occupied Palestinian territories on Friday in solidarity with more...