Members of the lower house of parliament in Germany have approved a law that partially bans the full-face Islamic veil known as the burka. The bill will now go to the upper house for approval. Civil...
Gulf Arab states pledged Thursday to fight "terrorism" and "foreign interference" across the region. In a joint statement following a summit in Riyadh, interior ministers of the six-nation Gulf...
Turkey’s police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national...
A Moroccan court has sentenced seven people to between five and eight months in prison over the death of a fish seller crushed in a rubbish truck. Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was killed on October 28 as he...
Turkey's police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national...
Police have arrested more than 1,000 people in an operation across Turkey against a movement blamed for last summer's failed coup. Raids were continuing as authorities targeted what was described as...
A recent Saudi government and security shake-up aims to strengthen King Salman's increasingly powerful son against a royal rival and to bolster ties with Washington, analysts and diplomats say. Royal...
The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has described as unacceptable the absence of the country’s Chief Fire Officer at the scene of Saturday’s inferno at the Coconut Groove Regency Hotel. Mr. Derry...
Former President John Mahama has commiserated with 2016 Progressive People’s Party (PPP) flagbearer, Dr Kwesi Nduom after fire gutted his properties last Saturday evening. The former President in a...
The Minister of Interior Ambrose Dery has called for a thorough investigation into circumstances surrounding Saturday evening’s fire outbreak at the Coconut Grove Hotel in Accra. According to him,...
Former President John Dramani Mahama is commiserating with the Nduoms – owners of the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra after some offices within the hotel’s compound were consumed by fire....
Barely 24 hours after the Nkonya-Alavanyo curfew was lifted, two people have been shot dead in renewed clashes between the two feuding communities. Although relative calm has returned to the place,...
French police foiled an attack during the presidential election with the arrest of two men in Marseille on Tuesday. Explosives and weapons, including a machine gun and two hand guns were found at the...
At least two people have been confirmed dead following the Konkomba-Dagomba clash which rocked the Agbobgloshie Yam market in Accra on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The clash between the Konkombas and...
The Tunisian branch of the radical Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which calls for Islamic law and wants to unify Muslims into a caliphate, said Saturday it was time to "bury" democracy. "Democracy...
An Egyptian court sentenced former interior minister Habib al-Adly to seven years in prison for corruption Saturday, in one of the last cases against Hosni Mubarak-era officials following his 2011...
A fire tore through makeshift straw shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and triggering a stampede, firefighters and local media said Thursday. The blaze...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), COP David Asante Apeatu, believes the relocation of residents at Old Fadama will help in the policing of the area and guarantee the stability in the area....
At least two people have been confirmed dead following the Konkomba-Dagomba clash which rocked the Agbobgloshie Yam market in Accra on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The clash between the Konkombas and...
The blast happened in a city known for clashes between Kurds and Turkish security forces A large explosion has struck a police headquarters in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern...
