Don’t Vote For Disruptive Change
Mr Kwesi Berkoe Amissah Arthur, the Vice President, has urged Ghanaians to vote against disruptive change in the upcoming December 7 general elections. Addressing hundreds of National Democratic...
Tag: Brussels
EU, Canada Sign Free Trade Deal But Battle Not Over
The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on Sunday that aims to generate jobs and growth though it must still clear some 40 national and regional parliaments in Europe in the...
EU and Canada Sign Long-Delayed Free Trade Deal
The European Union and Canada have signed a long-delayed landmark trade deal, following weeks of uncertainty due to opposition in Belgium. The deal was signed in Brussels by Canadian Prime Minister...
EU and Canada To Sign Long-Delayed Free Trade Deal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally on his way to Belgium to sign a long-delayed landmark trade deal with the European Union. He will attend a summit in Brussels where a signing...
Turkish Parliament To Consider Death Penalty For Coup Plotters, Says Erdogan
Our government will take this (proposal on capital punishment) to parliament. I am convinced that parliament will approve it, and when it comes back to me, I will ratify it," Erdogan said at an...
EU-Canada Trade Deal To Be Signed On Sunday
Protests against the agreement have been taking place outside the Walloon parliament in Belgium Canada and the European Union are to sign a long-delayed landmark trade deal at a summit in Brussels on...
EU and Canada Hold Out Hope For Trade Deal
Canada and the European Union say they remain hopeful a landmark free trade deal can go ahead despite three Belgian regions led by Wallonia blocking it. European Council President Donald Tusk said it...
Last-Ditch Bid To Save EU-Canada Trade Deal
Emergency talks are under way in Brussels in an effort to save an EU free trade deal with Canada (Ceta), blocked by a Belgian region. European Parliament head Martin Schulz is to hold separate talks...
Russia Says Aleppo Escape Corridors Under Fire
12:30 a.m. The Russian military says that in the first day of the pause in fighting over the Syrian city of Aleppo, the corridors set up for civilians to escape the besieged city and for rebels to...
EU Threatens Russia With Sanctions Over Syria
European Union leaders warned Russia at a summit on Thursday that they will consider sanctions over its role in the Syrian conflict if Moscow does not stop "crimes" in the devastated city of Aleppo....
DR Congo’s Bemba Found Guilty At ICC of Witness Bribing
Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of bribing witnesses. Bemba was found guilty earlier this year of war crimes and...
EU Gets Tough On African Migrants
'No more Mr. Nice Guy': EU gets tough on African migrants Migrants crossing the Sahara desert into Libya ride on the back of a pickup truck outside Niger Encouraged by their success in halting a mass...
Dollar Steady As Investors Await U.S. Presidential Debate, ECB
The dollar was steady in early trading on Thursday, as investors awaited the final debate before next month's U. S. presidential election as well as a European Central Bank meeting later in the day....
Boris Johnson’s Secret ‘Remain’ Article Revealed
The contents of a newspaper column written by Boris Johnson urging Britain to stay in the EU have been revealed. According to a new book on the EU referendum campaign, he declared: "Britain is a...
Germany Bomb Suspect Strangles Himself To Death
A Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack "with Islamist motives" on a Berlin airport has strangled himself to death with his shirt in detention, Saxony state justice officials said...
German Terror Suspect Jaber Al-Bakr’s Jail Death A Scandal
The death in a prison cell of a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany is a judicial scandal, his lawyer has said. Jaber al-Bakr, 22, hanged himself in a jail in Leipzig with...
Syrian Terror Suspect Jaber Al-Bakr Found Dead In Cell In Germany
A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany, officials say. Saxony's state justice ministry said Jaber al-Bakr...
Paris Attacks Suspect Salah Abdeslam’s Lawyers ‘quit His Defence’
Lawyers representing the main terror suspect of the Paris attacks have said they will no longer be defending him because of his decision to remain silent. French lawyer Frank Berton and his Belgian...
EU/Europe Quo Vadis
Revisiting and rethinking Europe recently on these very pages, prof. Anis Bajrektarevic asked: “… is the EU the world’s last cosmopolitan enjoying its postmodern holiday from history? Is that...
Belgian Prison Counselor Weeps Over Conditions At Kumasi Central Prison
A Belgian prison counselor was drawn into tears during a visit to the Kumasi Central Prison where she witnessed what she considered appalling conditions of inmates. Turkish-born Fatima Betul says the...