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Couple ‘detained In UAE For Sex Outside Marriage’

A South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for unlawful sex, a...

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Egyptian Who Is World’s Heaviest Woman Loses 100kg In 3 Weeks

Her family says she has not been able to leave home for 25 years Egyptian Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, reputed to be the...

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Celebrating Women In the Ghanaian Telecom and ICT Space [Article]

This International Women’s Day I want to celebrate the New faces of telecommunications’ players in Ghana – they...

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Afghanistan: IS Gunmen Dressed As Medics Kill 30 At Kabul Military Hospital

More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul,...

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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,...

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Facebook Failed To Remove Sexualised Images of Children

Facebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform. The...

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South Africa’s Jordaan Withdraws From Fifa Council Race

South African FA president Danny Jordaan has pulled out of the race to be a member of the Fifa Council. South Sudan's...

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Ibrahimovic Banned For Three Games

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has accepted a three-match ban for violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth’s Tyrone Mings during...

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Wikileaks ‘reveals CIA Hacking Tools’

Wikileaks has published details of what it says are wide-ranging hacking tools used by the CIA. The alleged...

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M.anifest Spits Fire Freestyle On BBC 1Xtra

Rapper M.anifest over the weekend joined DJ Edu on BBC 1Xtra for a Ghanaian Independence Day special.  M. Dot spoke...

Sports

Allow Committee To Work – Saanie Daara

The communications director of the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Sannie Daara, has called on journalists and...

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Ibrahimovic & Mings Charged With Violent Conduct By FA

Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings have been charged with violent conduct...

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Trump Signs New Travel Ban Directive

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations....

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Google’s Fake News Snippets

Over the weekend, I put a question to the Google Home speaker I’d brought back from the United States. “OK...

Entertainment

M.anifest Eulogizes Reggie Rockstone, Obrafuor

Ghanaian rap star M.anifest has lauded the grandpapa of Hiplife Reggie Rockstone and Obrafuor in an interview with...

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The Casualty Actor Behind the Bob Marley Musical

You may know Kwame Kwei-Armah best as the paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC’s Casualty. But it’s 13 years since he...

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FBI Chief Comey ‘rejects’ Allegation

FBI director James Comey has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered a wiretap of...

International

Candidate Makes Fighting Speech At Rally

Beleaguered French presidential candidate Francois Fillon has urged supporters to fight on, in a speech to a mass rally...

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We’ll Blacklist Contractors Over Shoddy Work – Amoako-Atta

Minister for Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Atta says his Ministry will blacklist any contractor found to have...