Articles by Kwame Mensah
Sopranos Actor Kicks Off Nepal Fire Truck Expedition
Sopranos star Michael Imperioli kicked off an expedition Monday that will see a motley crew of celebrities drive 10...
Sudan Hopes Trump Takes ‘courageous’ Decision To Lift Sanctions
Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington's sanctions on...
Palestinian Attempts Car-Ramming Attack, Shot Dead
A Palestinian attempted a car-ramming and knife attack against Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday and...
Qatar Petroleum and Total To Launch Joint Venture
State-owned Qatar Petroleum and French energy giant Total will formally launch a 25-year joint venture to develop the...
Conflict-Zone Contraception For the Boko Haram Homeless
Sixteen-year-old Aisha slips into the white family planning tent at the Bakassi camp for displaced people in Maiduguri,...
Chinese Deities End SE Asia Luxury Tour
A statue of a Chinese goddess that became a social media sensation after being pictured flying business class for a...
Zambian Opposition Rails Against Emergency Powers
Zambia's main opposition party on Monday accused President Edgar Lungu of endangering the country's democracy and...
Iraqi Forces Push To Clear Last Pockets of IS In Mosul
Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the...
Martial Arts Expert Sworn In As Mongolian President
Mongolian businessman and martial arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga was sworn in as president Monday, vowing to revive the...
Apple To Invest $900mn In Danish Data Plant
Apple on Monday said it would invest nine billion Danish kroner ($920 million, 810 million euros) in a data centre in...
Afghanistan Enacts Law To Control Cyberspace
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by...
Israel Minister In Rare West Bank Visit For Electricity Deal
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz made a rare appearance by a high-ranking Israeli official in the occupied West Bank on...
Trump Son ‘met Kremlin-Linked Lawyer’ During Election Campaign
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted to work "constructively" with Russia despite confronting Vladimir Putin...
Oil, Gas Key To World Energy For ‘decades To Come’
Oil and gas will remain central to the world's supply of energy for decades to come, despite a surge of interest in...
Sri Lanka Monks Vow To Resist Deal With Tamil Minority
Sri Lanka's hardline monks on Monday broadened a growing campaign by the Buddhist clergy against the government,...
Toxic Alcohol Kills 12 In India
A dozen people have died after drinking toxic homemade alcohol in Uttar Pradesh state, police said Monday, the latest...
Iraqi Forces Fight To Clear Last Jihadists From Mosul
Iraqi forces engaged in "heavy" fighting with the Islamic State group on Monday as they battled to clear the last...
Bomb Kills Police Chief, Guard In Southwest Pakistan
A bomb Monday killed a police chief and his guard, and wounded 11 others in a southwestern Pakistani town bordering...
China’s Ailing Nobel Laureate In ‘critical Condition’
China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is in a critical condition, the hospital treating him said Monday,...
Wildfires Rage In Sweltering California Forcing Thousands To Flee
Wildfires roared Sunday across much of California, forcing thousands to evacuate homes as the most populous US state...