Trump Travel Ban Back In Court
A US government attorney insisted Monday that President Donald Trump's revised travel ban did not unfairly target Muslims, in the latest twist in a months-long legal battle that has dogged the new US...
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Patrol Boats Repaired In Italy Handed Over To Libya
Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti on Monday handed over to the Libyan coastguard four patrol boats repaired in Italy as part of cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration. The crews...
US Appeals Court Weighs Legality of Trump Travel Ban
A US government attorney insisted Monday that President Donald Trump's revised travel ban did not unfairly target Muslims, as a panel of federal judges weighed the legality of the order. The latest...
Democrats Threaten To Block Trump’s Pick For FBI
President Donald Trump stepped up the search Monday for a new FBI director after his abrupt firing of James Comey, but Democrats are threatening to throw up roadblocks unless a special prosecutor is...
Italy Rescues 484 People From the Mediterranean
Seven bodies were recovered and 484 people were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to cross into Europe, Italy's coastguard said. The Italian coastguards, navy, an aid group...
GN Bank Manager ‘steals’ GHC2m
Samuel Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, the Akwatia branch manager of GN Bank Ghana Limited, has appeared before an Accra circuit court for allegedly stealing over GH¢2 million belonging to the bank. The accused...
Trump Sees ‘fast’ Decision Over New FBI Director
President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey -- a move that was still reverberating...
Black Stars Cursed Because of Ex-President Rawlings
A former Ghana striker George Alhassan has attributed the decades of trophy drought by the Black Stars to a curse invoked by the 1982 squad. According to him, the players were angry after the...
Thousands of Migrants Rescued In Mediterranean In Two Days
Illegal migrants, who were rescued by the Libyan coastguard in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan Some 6,000 migrants hoping to head to Europe were rescued in the Mediterranean on Friday and...
Yemen War Threatens Millennia-Old Mummies
Yemen's war has claimed thousands of lives and pushed millions to the brink of famine. Now the conflict threatens to erase a unique part of the country's ancient history. A collection of...
Libya Intercepts 350 Migrants After Duel At Sea
Libya's coastguard on Wednesday intercepted a wooden boat packed with more than 350 migrants after duelling with a German rescue ship and coming under fire from traffickers, the navy said. The...
Syria An ‘unwinnable’ War
"There will only be peace in Syria or in any of the other conflicts that we are witnessing when the parties to the conflict understand that they cannot win," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres...
Libya Minister Says Rival General Must Accept Civil Rule
Libya's foreign minister said Tuesday a rival general must accept civilian rule in order to play a role in the country's future. Field Marshal Khalifa "Haftar must first accept to work under a...
More Than 7,000 Migrants Detained In Libya
Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa are being held in Libyan detention centres after entering the country illegally, an official said on Tuesday. Abdulrazaq al-Shniti,...
Nearly 200 Asylum Seekers Feared Dead Off Libya Coast
Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats carrying asylum seekers sank off the coast of Libya, UN agencies said on Monday citing survivors. A spokesperson for the United...
11 Migrants Dead, 200 Missing In Mediterranean Sinkings
Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats sank off the coast of Libya, UN agencies said Monday citing survivors, in the latest such tragedy. The first involved an...
Libya Forces Advance On Last Jihadist Bastions In Benghazi
Forces loyal to Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar on Monday launched an offensive to oust jihadist from their last two strongholds in second city Benghazi, they said. Forces loyal to Haftar,...
Trump’s Travel Ban Faces New Test
President Donald Trump's amended travel ban will face a key test on Monday, when a US appeals court is set to take on a case that has stymied the administration's controversial efforts to bar...
3,000 Rescued In Mediterranean Sea
About 3,000 people have been saved in the Mediterranean Sea in a single day while trying to make the journey from northern Africa to Europe, according to the Italian coastguard. They were picked up...
6,000 Migrants Rescued In Mediterranean In Two Days
Some 6,000 migrants hoping to head to Europe were rescued in the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday in dozens of frantic operations coordinated by the Italian coastguard. Some 3,000 were picked up...