Articles by Kwame Mensah
At Least 22 Dead In Border City Parachinar
At least 22 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in a blast outside a mosque in northwest Pakistan. The...
At Iraq Camp, UN Chief Urges More Aid For People of Mosul
UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed on Friday for more aid for the people of Mosul, as he visited a camp for Iraqis...
India Seeks Divine Intervention To Deter Serial Spitters
India has sought divine intervention to rid its government buildings of the scourge of spitting -- wall tiles imprinted...
Zuma Sacks Finance Minister In Major Reshuffle
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma sacked finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a major cabinet reshuffle after days of...
Philippine Fisherman’s Tale of 58 Days Adrift
Adrift and alone in the Pacific Ocean, Rolando Omongos prayed to live long enough to bring home news of the death of...
Kuwaiti Woman Held For Filming Maid Attempting Suicide
Kuwaiti police have detained a woman for filming her Ethiopian maid falling from the seventh floor in an apparent...
Rex Tillerson To Push NATO Allies To Pay Up
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson headed to Brussels on Friday to push President Donald Trump's demand for NATO...
Maldives Opposition Face Crackdown After Failed Power Bid
Opposition parties in the Maldives accused the government Friday of waging a revenge campaign against their leaders...
US Embassy In Kabul Fires Six Over Drugs
The dismissal of six employees from the US embassy in Kabul for using or possessing drugs is an embarrassment to...
UN Chief At Iraq Camp Urges More Aid For People of Mosul
UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed Friday for more aid and international solidarity for the people of Mosul, as he...
India Awards New Routes In Bid To Get Millions Flying
Indian airlines will soon offer dirt-cheap fares to dozens of new, regional destinations -- some for the very first...
One Dead As Cyclone Flooding Overwhelms Australian Towns
A woman's body was found Friday and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from towns in two Australian states...
Kim Jong-Nam’s Body Returned To North Korea
The body of Kim Jong-Nam, half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, has arrived in Pyongyang, Chinese officials...
Indian Police Make Sixth Arrest Over Attack On Nigerians
Police have made a sixth arrest in connection with a brutal mob attack on Nigerian students in northern India that...
Oculus Co-Founder Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Series of Gaffes
The tech entrepreneur who helped kick-start the virtual reality revolution is stepping down from the company which he...
Kim Deal Chance For N. Korea To Bury Murder Evidence
North Korea's retrieval of the body of the assassinated half brother of leader Kim Jong-Un is aimed at destroying...
At Least Six Dead, 50 Wounded In Pakistan Market Blast
At least six people were killed and 50 wounded on Friday when a bomb tore through a market in a mainly Shiite area of...
High-Tech War Kit Can’t Prevent Civilian Deaths In Iraq
Despite using state-of-the-art weaponry, the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq appears unable...
Taiwan Court Acquits ‘Sunflower Movement’ Protesters
A prominent Taiwanese activist-turned-lawmaker who stormed parliament in 2014 protesting a China trade pact was...
Palestinian, UN Alarm After Israel Backs New Settlement
The Palestinians and the United Nations on Friday condemned the Israeli cabinet's approval of the first officially...