The US has expelled 35 Russian diplomats as punishment for alleged interference into the presidential election. It will also close two Russian compounds used for intelligence-gathering, in Maryland...
Egypt has delayed a UN vote on a text condemning Israeli settlements in occupied territory after Israel asked Donald Trump to intervene. Israel contacted the US president-elect's transition team...
Egypt has suddenly delayed a vote on its UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank as Donald Trump made his opposition clear. A US official told the BBC that it had been...
President-elect Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he will look to "strengthen and expand" the US's nuclear capability hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to enhance his country's...
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights abuses...
The government of Sao Tome and Principe has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, officials said. China welcomed the decision by the African island nation saying it was "back onto the correct path of the...
The relations between unpredictable allies, Russia and Turkey, appear to have deteriorated in the past few years. The relationship between Moscow and Ankara have deteriorated since the Turkish Air...
The incoming New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) side of the transition team has assured it will scrutinize the handover notes it has received from the outgoing administration. The President-elect’s team...
African states narrowly failed on Monday for a second time to halt the work of the first U. N. independent investigator appointed to help protect gay and transgender people worldwide from violence...
Barring any last minutes hitches, Ghana would receive its first gas from the West Africa Gas Ltd. (WAGL) LNG terminal currently under construction in Tema on the 1st of July 2017. This, according to...
Businesses and trade unions have called on Theresa May to guarantee immediately the right of EU citizens to stay in the UK after Brexit. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which represents...
Major cinemas in Pakistan have agreed to end a ban on Indian films imposed when relations between the two countries deteriorated in September. The decision to ban the films came amid a rise in...
Barack Obama pledged to close down the Guatanamo Bay before close of his tenure A former Guantanamo prisoner who was resettled in Uruguay but has asked to leave flew to South Africa on Thursday as a...
EU leaders have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six more months. Earlier, France and Germany complained that the Minsk peace deal for Ukraine was still not being fulfilled....
Ghana will today join Benin, Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that seeks to facilitate the free movement of skilled personnel within the sub-region as part...
They're the islands where World War II never ended and now they're the focal point of a rare meeting between the leaders of Japan and Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to...
China has warned that it's "seriously concerned" after President-elect Donald Trump questioned whether the United States should keep its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China."...
Downing Street has said Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's comments on Saudi Arabia do not represent "the government's position". Footage has emerged from an event last week at which Mr Johnson said...
Boris Johnson has accused Britain's ally, Saudi Arabia, of engaging in "proxy wars" in the Middle East. The Guardian newspaper has published footage in which the foreign secretary talks of...
The Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission, Tamas Meszerics, has lauded the people of the Volta Region for the orderly manner they conducted themselves in Wednesday’s...
