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Akufo-Addo Appoints 1st Public Procurement Authority CEO As Boss Again
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Agyei as the new Chief Executive Officer of the...
Iran Successfully Tests Naval Missile
Iran has successfully test-fired a naval missile which hit its target 250 kilometres away, local news agencies reported...
Agyenim Boateng Adjei Appointed Procurement Authority CEO
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement...
France’s Jarre To Play Israel In Aid of Dead Sea
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre says he will perform in Israel next month in a concert to publicise the...
Agyenim Boateng Adjei Appointed New Procurement Authority CEO
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement...
US Move On North Korea Tests Risks China Clash
Washington is scrambling to develop a new strategy to counter North Korea's aggressive nuclear weapon and missile...
Two Malaysian WFP Staff Leave North Korea After Exit Ban
The UN's World Food Programme said two of its Malaysian staff left North Korea Thursday after Kuala Lumpur and...
Chinese Survey Ships Entering Philippine Territory
Chinese survey ships have been entering waters recognised by the United Nations as Philippine territory, Manila's...
Madagascan Cock Fighters Claw Their Way To Glory
Two competing roosters rear up to face each other in the heart of a rowdy Madagascan arena before bursting forward in...
Metro Aims To Break New Ground In Car-Mad Qatar
Qatar's metro, once completed, will run hundreds of kilometres across ultra-modern Doha, along the coast and into its...
IS Hopes To Hold Onto Shreds of ‘caliphate’
The Islamic State group has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to cling to scraps of a...
Lebanon Raids Financial Offices Over Transfers To IS
Lebanese authorities carried out raids Wednesday against currency exchange offices and money transfer companies on...
Maldives Deny Atoll Sale To Saudis After Protests
The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following...
Iran Accuses US of Stirring Tensions In Gulf
A senior official in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday accused the United States of provoking tensions...
Thousands of Rohingya Refugees Return To Myanmar Over Island Plan
Thousands of Rohingya who took refuge in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar have returned home because of a...
Indonesia Shrugs Off Asian Games Graft, Organisation Woes
Organisers of Indonesia's 2018 Asian Games insisted Wednesday preparations were on track after the build-up was hit by...
Mosul Families Huddle At Home, Terrified of IS
For two weeks, Yunis Mohammed and 17 relatives huddled terrified in the cellar of his west Mosul home as the Islamic...
BBC’s Thai Transmission Towers Fall Silent As Junta Talks Falter
The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from one of its major global transmission stations situated in Thailand,...
Kuwait Turns Silk Road Into A Massive Causeway
Kuwait is building one of the world's longest causeways to its remote north where it will pump billions into "Silk...