Articles by Kwame Mensah
Indian Censors Want ‘cow’, ‘Hindu’ Beeped In Film
Indian censors have refused to certify a documentary film featuring Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen unless...
Debt-Ridden Air Zimbabwe Sacks Half Its Workforce
Air Zimbabwe has laid off 200 employees -- nearly half its workforce -- to try to stay in the air, Zimbabwe state media...
Zimbabwe Police Fire Tear Gas At Opposition Protesters
Zimbabwean riot police in the capital Harare fired tear gas and used water cannon on Wednesday to break an opposition...
US Bans Kaspersky Software Amid Concerns Over Russia Ties
The US government has moved to block federal agencies from buying software from Russia-based Kaspersky Labs, amid...
Boycott-Busting Bovines Begin Arriving In Qatar
A first herd of boycott-busting cows has been airlifted to Qatar to boost milk supplies five weeks after neighbouring...
Newborn Among Migrants Reaching Italy After Rescue Off Libya
The first of more than 3,500 would-be migrants picked up off the coast of Libya in recent days arrived Wednesday in...
RBS Agrees $5.5 Bn Subprime Charge With US Regulator
Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday agreed to pay a US regulator $5.5 billion (4.8 billion euros) over its role in the...
Two Australian Crown Resorts Staff Finally Freed From Jail In China
China has released 10 Crown Resorts employees, including two Australians, after they spent nine months in prison on...
France To Boost Refugee Aid, Deport Economic Migrants
France will cut processing time for asylum requests and boost housing for refugees while "systematically" deporting...
Fed’s Yellen Still Sees Only ‘gradual’ Rate Hikes
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday she still foresees only "gradual" interest rate increases in the few...
Trillion-Tonne Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica
An iceberg the size of Delaware, one of the largest on record, was set adrift after snapping off a West Antarctic ice...
Four Suicide Bombers Kill 15 In Maiduguri, Nigeria
At least 15 people were killed when four female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Maiduguri, northeast...
Gunmen Kidnap Afghan Bus Passengers, Killing At Least Seven
Afghan authorities on Wednesday recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of seven passengers kidnapped by gunmen in the...
Tillerson To Meet Arab Ministers Over Qatar Boycott
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, touring the crisis-hit Gulf for a round of intense shuttle diplomacy, arrived in...
Fast-Growing Pakistan Aims To Raise Contraception Use
Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health...
Journalist Killed In DR Congo
A Congolese journalist working for state broadcaster RTNC was killed by an unknown assailant at his home in the...
11 Migrant Workers Die In Saudi House Fire
Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house...
Kremlin Denies Reaching Out To Trump Jr. Via Developer
The Kremlin has denied reaching out to a Moscow-based property developer and his son who arranged a meeting between a...
US Laptop Ban Lifted In Egypt, Morocco
Egypt and Morocco's airlines have said a ban against carry-on laptops on US-bound flights has been lifted, leaving only...
Germany Says Ready To Treat China’s Liu Xiaobo
Germany said Wednesday it was ready to treat terminally ill Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, and urged Beijing to let...