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Britain’s Boris Johnson Visits Israel, Palestinian Territories

British foreign minister Boris Johnson visited Israel and the Palestinian territories Wednesday for talks with leaders...

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Female Traffic Lights To Promote Gender Equality In Australia

Pedestrian traffic lights showing female figures rather than male have been installed in Melbourne to reduce...

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Oko Vanderpuije Proposes One-Term Presidency For Ghana

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South, Alfred Okoe Vanderpujie, has called for the constitutional amendment to...

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Declare State of Emergency On Accra Floods – Vanderpuije

The government must declare a state of emergency following perennial flooding in some parts of Accra including the...

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Vanderpuije Proposes One-Off 6-Year Term

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, has rekindled the debate on the duration of the...

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Appointing Adjei Sowah As Accra Mayor Will Be A Disaster

Ododiodioo Men and Women Fellowship which is a group associated with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has...

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London Mayor Approves Chelsea’s New Stadium

Chelsea’s plans to build a new £500 million ($610mn, 580mn euros) 60,000-seat stadium cleared another major hurdle...

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Vandals Topple Headstones At Jewish Cemetery In Brooklyn

A number of tombstones were overturned in an historic Jewish cemetery in New York, police said Sunday, the latest in...

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Netanyahu Says Will Not Allow Street To Be Named For Arafat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday not to allow a street in an Arab Israeli town to be named after late...

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Pakistan’s Financial Capital Karachi Turned ‘into Rubbish Bin’

Neighbours forced their way into Mohammad Umair's home battling smoke and flames in a desperate bid to rescue his young...

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Aggrieved Traders Fight ‘discriminatory’ Abolishment of Kayayei Tax

Traders at the central business district are unhappy that government singled-out head porters (Kayayei) in the soon to...

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Chaotic Accra Has Had A Plan Since 1958

Contrary to views that the national capital, Accra has been without a plan, veteran politician, Enock Tei Mensah has...

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Senegalese Mayor Faces Investigation Over $2.85m Fraud

The mayor of Senegal's capital is facing a judicial probe into the disappearance of 1.83 billion CFA francs ($2.85...

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Akufo-Addo’s Removal of Kayayei Levy Discriminatory – Oko Vanderpuije

Former Mayor of Accra, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije has described as discriminatory the decision by the governing New...

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Opening of Trump Tower In Vancouver Met With Protests

US President Donald Trump's two sons inaugurated a Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, Canada Tuesday as...

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Nana Otuo Siriboe Elected C’cil of State Chair

Nana Otuo Siriboe II, has been elected the chairman of the Council of State. A statement from the Acting Secretary to...

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‘Moonlight’ Win Ignites Hope In Historic Miami Ghetto

Too often, the stories portrayed in the news around the crumbling pastel apartment units in Miami's Liberty City tell...

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Know Akufo-Addo’s 24-Member Council of State

The Council of State has a very significant role to play in the governance of the country, as it is enjoined by the...

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‘Hundreds’ of US Jewish Graves Attacked In Philadelphia

Police are searching for the vandals that damaged what one local rabbi said was nearly 500 headstones at a Jewish...