Truck Damages Rails
HUNDREDSÂ of commuters aboard a Tema-Accra train were yesterday left stranded at Dzorwulu, Accra after a tipper truck damaged the rails. The tipper truck is believed to be owned by Engineers and...
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Robert Harward Turns Down Trump’s National Security Adviser Offer
US President Donald Trump’s choice for National Security Adviser has turned down the job offer. Retired Vice-Admiral Robert Harward was widely tipped for the post after Mr Trump fired Michael Flynn...
Robert Harward Turns Down Trump’s National Security Adviser Offer
US President Donald Trump's choice for National Security Adviser has turned down the job offer. Retired Vice-Admiral Robert Harward was widely tipped for the post after Mr Trump fired Michael Flynn...
Trump Presses Showdown With Intelligence Agencies
President Donald Trump pressed his attacks on US intelligence agencies Thursday, vowing to catch "low-life leakers" amid a battle over contacts with Russia that led to the ouster of his national...
Israeli Joy, Palestinian Alarm At Trump Two-State Shift
Donald Trump's shelving of the decades-long goal of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict has excited Israelis and alarmed Palestinians and Arabs, but no-one is quite sure what it means....
“It Would Be Huge”: U.S. Border Town Confronts Possible Import Tax
For up to 16 hours a day, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and mangoes grown in Mexico flow north through a border checkpoint into Nogales, Arizona, helping to ensure a year-round supply of fresh produce...
Cheers My Comrades! — NPP/NDC Duopoly Can Be Broken In 2020
Results of the 2016 general elections seem to make proponents of the two-party state system in Ghana believe that it has happened. They are all wrong! But it will take some courageous and tenacious...
Bird-Flu Deaths Rise In China, Shutting Poultry Markets
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013, killing 79 people in January alone and spurring several cities to suspend live...
Damning Report On Newmont Ahafo Mine Operation
A research study by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and two other institutions shows that the operation of the Newmont Ahafo Mine has adversely impacted the lives of women in the mining...
Trump Relaxes US Policy On Middle East Two-State Solution
US President Donald Trump has dropped decades of US policy insisting on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At a news conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump...
Baghdad Suicide Car Bomb Kills Nine
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in a Shiite majority neighbourhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least nine people, an interior ministry official said. Thirty others were...
What Is the Two-State Solution?
The idea of a Palestinian state existing alongside Israel has been the basis of decades of international efforts to end the conflict. After new US President Donald Trump's administration said it is...
China Awards Trump Valuable New Trademark
The government of China awarded U. S. President Donald Trump valuable rights to his own name this week, in the form of a 10-year trademark for construction services. The registration became official...
Russia Deploys Missile In Apparent Treaty Violation
Moscow has deployed a cruise missile in an apparent treaty violation, a senior military official told CNN Tuesday. The move is just the latest in a string of Russian provocations in the early days of...
Killing Could Be Sign of ‘brutal’ N Korean Regime
South Korea has confirmed the killing of the brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, saying it could be a sign of the brutality of Pyongyang. Kim Jong-nam was killed in an apparent poison attack...
Five Takeaways From Tuesday
Donald Trump's White House was in crisis mode following the resignation of a top aide, as it emerged the president knew for weeks about Michael Flynn's controversial Kremlin contacts before deciding...
US Will Not Insist On Two-State Solution In Mideast
The White House signaled a sharp break with decades of support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White...
Head of Libya’s Unity Govt To Meet Rival Army Chief
The head of Libya's unity government and a rival army chief were to meet in Cairo on Tuesday to find a solution to turmoil in the country, a government official said. The UN-backed Government of...
Thousands In Iraq Pay Homage To Victims of Baghdad Protest
Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of prominent cleric Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad Tuesday to pay their respects to seven people killed last week during a protest for electoral reform....
North Korean Leader’s Brother Kim Jong-Nam ‘killed In Malaysia’
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-nam, has been killed with poison in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, reports say. Malaysian police said a North Korean man waiting at...