UN Sounds Alarm Over Foreign Aid Cuts
US President Donald Trump is seeking to reduce his country's contribution to UN programmes, as part of cuts to funding of US diplomacy and foreign aid in his administration's budget proposal. The...
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No Evidence Trump Tower Bugged By Obama
President Donald Trump's controversial allegation that the Obama administration wiretapped his Trump Tower in New York wilted further Thursday when two top US senators said they saw no evidence to...
Namibia Lodges Colonial-Era Claim Against Germany In NY Court
More than a century after a long-hushed genocide took place in Namibia while under German colonial rule, descendants of the victims are getting their day in court in New York for the first time...
Trump Ready To Fight After Travel Ban Again Blocked
President Donald Trump braced Thursday for a long legal battle over his ban on travel from six mainly-Muslim countries after two federal judges ruled against the measure, saying the Republican's own...
I Might Not Be Here ‘if It Wasn’t For Twitter’
President Donald Trump is defending his frequent -- and often incendiary -- use of Twitter by saying that the social media platform lets him bypass the "dishonest" press. "Maybe I would not be here...
Trump Hails ‘very Great’ Andrew Jackson On His 250th Birthday
Donald Trump hailed America's first populist president Wednesday, laying a wreath at the tomb of Andrew Jackson and waxing lyrical about the similarities between himself and the seventh US president....
Michael Flynn Paid To Represent Turkey’s Interests During Trump Campaign
Latest: We Blend Our Vision With Truth & Enlightenment Michael Flynn paid to represent Turkey’s interests during Trump campaign The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of...
Elumelu Speaks On Africapitalism To Youths At Ghana’s Leading Institution
Elumelu Speaks on Africapitalism to youths at Ghana’s leading institution Tony Elumelu visited Ghana as the first stop of his UBA tour of Africa, propagating the ideal of Africapitalism. In...
Michael Flynn Paid To Represent Turkey’s Interests During Trump Campaign
The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of America First. The client he was working for last fall was paying him more than $500,000 to put Turkey first. Michael T. Flynn,...
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez ‘see A Future Together’
They may only be dating for a couple of months, but Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez's relationship is apparently more serious than it had been reported before. According to a source, the...
US Judge Blocks New Trump Travel Ban
A federal judge in Hawaii has put President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on hold, issuing an emergency halt to the order just hours before it was set to go into effect. The ruling by US District...
Unproven Stem Cell Therapy Causes Three Women To Go Blind
An unproven stem cell therapy that involves extracting a patient's fat tissue and injecting it into the eyes has caused three US women to go blind, a report said Wednesday. The women, aged between 72...
Trump’s Ex-Wife To Publish Memoir On Raising Kids
Donald Trump's first ex-wife Ivana is writing a memoir about bringing up the US president's eldest three children, slated for release in September, her publishers announced Wednesday. "Raising Trump"...
New York Philharmonic Puts Hopes In LA Head
The New York Philharmonic, which has been treading water financially, tapped Wednesday the well-regarded head of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as president in a startling shake-up for the classical...
Top Lawmakers See No Evidence For Trump Wiretap Claim
Senior US lawmakers said Wednesday they had seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped his New York home and office building. "We don't...
Mainstream Media Is Responsible For Rampant Suicides In Ghana.
There is no doubt that the rate at which Ghanaians are committing suicide has really skyrocketed over the past few months. About two weeks ago, myjoyonline reported a suicide case involving the...
Ghanaian Leads AYGC Delegation To UN Women’s Conference
Washington Mandela Fellow and the Chair of the Committee on Gender and Social Protection of the African Youth and Governance Conference (AYGC) 2016, Princess Sekyere will lead a team of five African...
Elumelu Speaks On Africapitalism To Youths At Legon
Tony Elumelu visited Ghana as the first stop of his tour of Africa propagating the ideal of Africapitalism. In continuation of his strategic vision of engineering a robust economic and business...
Warriors End NBA Losing Streak
Stephen Curry scored 29 points on his 29th birthday as the Golden State Warriors staged a fourth quarter rally to defeat the Philadelphia 76ers and halt their three-game losing streak on Tuesday. The...
The Bronx Looks To Capitalize As Hip-Hop’s Birthplace
In the 1970s, DJs, dancers, graffiti artists and the first rappers came together in the burned-out buildings of The Bronx, giving birth to hip-hop. Today, hip-hop is a multibillion-dollar industry...