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N. Korea Has Large Chemical Weapons Stockpile

North Korea has up to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, South Korean experts said Friday, including the toxin used to...

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Plan To Save Great Barrier Reef Set Back Decades

Australia's plan to rescue the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef has been set back at least two decades after the fragile...

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‘$250 Million Required To Reclaim Lands and Water Bodies Destroyed By Galamsey’

An estimated $250 million is required to reclaim lands and water bodies affected by illegal mining (galamsey)...

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Kofi Buah Fears Privatization of VRA, GRIDCO

Former Petroleum Minister, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, says he fears the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Ghana Grid...

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China Continues ‘steady Pattern’ of S.China Sea Militarization

Recent satellite imagery appears to show China is completing structures intended to house surface-to-air missiles...

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Some Dakota Pipeline Protesters Defy Evacuation Deadline

Dozens of protesters remained at a North Dakota camp site on Thursday, refusing to vacate the area where Native...

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Penguins In the Age of Dinos

A giant penguin foot-bone discovered in New Zealand shows that the ancestors of everyone's favourite flightless bird...

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Bashir Orders Full Aid Access To S. Sudan Famine Areas

President Omar al-Bashir has ordered Sudanese authorities to assist the delivery of international humanitarian aid to...

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Teachers Impregnate 301 Teenagers In Central Region

Teachers in the Central Region have been named among the top groups of people who impregnated teenage girls in the area...

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Fukushima Operator Eyes Plan To Clean Up Plant

The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday it will craft a plan this summer to extract...

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World Donors Gather In Oslo To Tackle Nigeria Famine

UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo Thursday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions...

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‘Africa’s Most Acute Crisis’

An international conference in Oslo on Friday aims to raise $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) to help people affected by...

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Seven New Earth-Like Planets ‘best Bet’ For Life

A group of international scientists have announced that a dwarf star only 40 light years from the Earth has at least...

Business

Government Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

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Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

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Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permit

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

International

Poachers Kill Two Rhinos At South African Orphanage

More than 700 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of last year Poachers have killed two rhinos during...

Business

Don’t List ‘strategic’ GRIDCo On GSE

State power transmitter Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) must not be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) as...

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Baby Orangutan Rescued After Being Kept As A Pet

Baby primate Vena shyly turned her head away from a bottle as two vets tried to feed her, the latest Bornean orangutan...