Articles by Kwame Mensah
Thai Police End Search of Temple Without Finding Monk
Thai police ended their search of Thailand's biggest temple on Friday after laying siege to it for more than three...
US Economy Adds 235,000 New Jobs In February
US economy had another strong month of job creation in February, with the manufacturing, health care, mining and...
Chemical Watchdog Condemns VX Use In Kim Murder
The world's chemical watchdog Friday condemned the use of the deadly VX nerve agent in the assassination of North...
IOC Freezes Funding For Kenya Over Governance
The International Olympic Committee has frozen all cash funding for sport in Kenya as it battles the national Olympic...
Raw Milk Cheese Linked To Two Listeria Deaths In US
Two people have died and several more have fallen ill following an outbreak of listeria linked to recalled cheese in...
Niger Puts 1,000 ‘Boko Haram Fighters’ On Trial
Niger has begun the trials behind closed doors of about 1,000 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist movement,...
Intimidation and Exam-Fixing Claims
Teachers at a high-flying East London academy have claimed they witnessed coursework and examinations being marked...
VW and Tata Agree Partnership To Boost Sales In India
VW and Tata have agreed to form a strategic partnership to help both companies boost economy car sales in India and...
City Worker Jailed For Killing Man With Punch Over Shoe Prank
A City worker who fatally punched a friend after he threw his shoe out of a car window following a drunken prank has...
Meet the Donald Trump of Indonesia
On top of a rock formation on the Indonesian island of Bali, sits Tanah Lot. It's a simple 16th century Balinese...
S.Africans March Over Looming Welfare Payment Crisis
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Pretoria on Friday over fears that South Africa's welfare agency may be...
.africa Joins the Internet
In the beginning was .com, followed by a host of other .somethings, but on Friday, 32 years after the world's first...
Taiwan Bus At Double Speed Limit Before Fatal Crash
Investigators probing a bus crash in Taiwan which killed 33 people in one of the island's worst ever road accidents...
Trump To Speak With Palestinian President Abbas
US President Donald Trump will on Friday speak by telephone with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the White House...
Gambia Coalition Near Collapse Over Legislative Election
Gambian coalition parties that united last year to deliver the first new president in 22 years are unlikely to run...
S. Koreans Jubilant, Or Stunned By President’s Sacking
Thousands of younger demonstrators erupted with joy while a rival older crowd angrily clashed with riot police -- two...
31 Workers Convicted Over Killing At Indian Car Plant
An Indian court convicted 31 workers Friday over an outburst of deadly violence at a car plant in 2012, including 13...
Japan To Withdraw Troops From South Sudan
These Japanese peacekeepers who arrived in November were mandated to use force Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced...
‘Disarray’ Over National Insurance Rises
Labour's shadow chancellor says the government is in disarray after Theresa May said Budget tax rises would not go...
Japan Troops To Withdraw From South Sudan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in...