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Iran’s Former Hardline President Ahmadinejad To Run In New Elections

Iran's former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken the surprise move of registering to run in next month's...

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Rival S.African Parties Unite At Anti-Zuma Protest

Rival South African opposition parties joined forces on Wednesday when several thousand demonstrators marched through...

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad Registers To Run For President

Iran's former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the shock move on Wednesday of registering for next month's...

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Bangladesh PM Backs Islamists Over Statue Controversy

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been accused of "kowtowing" to hardline Islamists after expressing dislike...

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US-Russia War of Words Over Syria Clouds Moscow Talks

The United States and Russia were on a collision course over the alleged Syrian chemical attack on Wednesday as...

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What Changes Under Turkey’s New Constitution Plan

Turkey on Sunday votes in a landmark referendum on a new constitution that would grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

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Police Arrest 50 Residents of Ekpu Over Violent Protests

A Police force, made up of 150 personnel from the National Police Headquarters and 150 from the Western Regional...

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Iraq’s Sadr Warns Assad Could Share Kadhafi’s Fate

Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Tuesday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he risked suffering the same fate as...

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Court Throws Out FWSC In the GHc10m Pension Suit By Former MPs

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application filed by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to join the...

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Putin Warns of Future Chemical Weapons ‘provocations’ To Frame Assad

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned of future chemical weapons "provocations" in Syria that would be...

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No G7 Consensus On Fresh Syria Sanctions

G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar...

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Kickboxer Scott Marsden’s Death ‘unexplained’

An investigation into what caused the death of 14-year-old kickboxer who collapsing during a national title bout...

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Stockholm Suspect ‘admits Truck Attack’

The Stockholm truck attack suspect has confessed to a “terrorist crime”, his lawyer says. The admission came at a...

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Dissolve All Vigilante Groups – NCCE Tells NPP, NDC

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic...

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Stockholm Suspect ‘admits Truck Attack’

The Stockholm truck attack suspect has confessed to a "terrorist crime", his lawyer says. The admission came at a...

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Dissolve All Vigilante Groups

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic...

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Russian Officers ‘could Face Sanctions’

G7 foreign ministers will attempt to agree a common position on the Syrian conflict, before the US secretary of state...

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Greater Accra Fire Service Launches Fire Safety Week

It is the wish of the service to achieve fire safety through public education The Greater Accra Regional branch of the...

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Amnesty Hails Decline In Executions

US death penalty sentences fell to a historic low last year and executions also dropped sharply, contributing to a...