Sudan’s Bashir To Attend Arab Summit
President Omar al-Bashir will attend an Arab League summit in Amman this week, Sudan's foreign minister said Sunday, despite a top rights group urging Jordan to deny him entry. Bashir is wanted by...
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Tillerson To Meet Allies As NATO Races To Save Talks
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet with NATO members next week in Brussels, officials said Friday, as alliance diplomats struggled to reschedule a key meeting. The transatlantic alliance's...
Majority of Ministers Took Mahama To A Shrine
The reasons for the defeat of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is now descending it bizarre levels following allegations that majority of government appointees took former President...
Online Passport Centres For All 10 Regions – Veep
The Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says government would provide the necessary support to facilitate the ease of passport acquisition in the country. In furtherance of this, all regions across...
South China Sea Installations ‘primarily’ Civilian
China is not militarising the disputed South China Sea, the country's premier insisted in Australia on Friday, claiming defence equipment Beijing has installed on artificial islands is "primarily"...
Somali President Pleads To UN For Aid To Avert Famine
Somalia's new president appealed to the international community Thursday for more aid to avert a famine threatening his country that could also undermine fledgling political hopes born in his...
All Ten Regions To Have Online Passport Offices – Veep
Government says it will set up online passport offices in all ten regions of Ghana to ensure that passport acquisition is decentralized and stress free. According to government this new process will...
India MP Boasts of Beating Air Steward On Flight
An Indian MP beat an airline employee repeatedly with a slipper after being unable to get a business class seat on an Air India flight. Ravindra Gaikwad later told Indian reporters he had “hit him...
Bawumia Pays Surprise Visit To Passports Office
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has paid a surprise visit to the Passports Office in Accra. He was at the office to assess at first-hand operations at one of Ghana’s busiest agencies. Dr....
Allies Vow To Destroy IS As Attacks Overshadow Talks
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group vowed to crush the jihadists Wednesday at a meeting overshadowed by an attack in London and civilian deaths in Syria. Secretary of State Rex...
Laptop Ban Sparks Ire Among Mideast Travellers
Travellers across the Middle East expressed frustration Wednesday at a ban on large electronic devices for flights to the United States and Britain that has sparked confusion and speculation. From...
UN Urges DRC To Implement December Political Deal
The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly three months after a political agreement was signed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, its implementation remains stalled, threatening security and...
Erdogan Says Vote Is Best Response To ‘fascist’ Europe
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today voting 'yes' in next month's referendum on expanding his powers was the best response to a 'fascist and cruel' Europe. He told a rally in the...
North Korea Not Afraid of US Military Strike
North Korea said Monday it is not frightened by US threats of possible pre-emptive military action to halt its nuclear and missile buildup. A spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry slammed US...
Turkey’s Erdogan Accuses Merkel of Using ‘Nazi Measures’ Against Turks
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel of using 'Nazi measures' as a war of words threatens to spiral out of control. In a speech broadcast on...
Saudi-Led Coalition Calls For UN To Supervise Yemen Port
The Arab coalition battling rebels in Yemen called Sunday for Hodeida port to be placed under UN supervision, after dozens of Somali refugees were killed on a boat offshore. "We are also aware of...
Ablakwa Urges Action Against Politicians Who Incite Violence
North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has expressed worry over the rising incidents of hate activities across the world. He said xenophobic attacks in Africa as well as...
Somalia Wants Saudi Probe of Refugee Boat Attack
Somalia has called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen to investigate an incident in which dozens of Somali refugees were shot dead on board a boat. It was not immediately clear who was...
U.S., China Soften Tone, Say To Work Together On North Korea
The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take "a different course", U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday, softening previous criticism of...
Thousands of Kurds Protest Against Turkey’s Erdogan In Frankfurt Leftright 10/10leftright
"The Europeans should hear us, empathize with our suffering and help us Around 9,000 Kurdish supporters demonstrated in the German city of Frankfurt on Saturday against Turkish President Tayyip...