Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that followed. But crueller still were the insults and stigmatisation she faced in the...
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has become the country’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. Judges unanimously upheld Parliament’s decision to impeach Ms Park...
South Korea's Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving South Korea's conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and...
Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has left Ghana to attend the National Day Celebrations of the Republic of Mauritius, as the Special Guest. Whilst in Mauritius, the Vice President will hold...
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Thursday urged Iraq to agree to a UN investigation of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group and bring those responsible for crimes to justice. Clooney,...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Brussels this month, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday, as the EU aims to close a free trade deal with Tokyo this year. Abe will...
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is scheduled to leave Accra on Thursday night for the Mauritian capital of Port Louis, where he is expected to be the Special Guest for the island nation’s 49th...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the chancellor was right to raise National Insurance contributions for the self employed in his Budget. The rise will see millions of self-employed workers...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has rarely appeared in public since a crippling stroke in 2013, is doing "very well", the country's prime minister said on Thursday. Speculation has...
British foreign minister Boris Johnson has warned that the alternative to a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an "apartheid system," in an interview with an Israeli newspaper...
The UN's World Food Programme said two of its Malaysian staff left North Korea Thursday after Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang banned each other's citizens from leaving their countries in a row over the...
The Member of Parliament for Pru East, Kwabena Donkor, wants the Akufo-Addo administration to renegotiate the gas price component of Ghana’s 20-year deal with Italian oil company, ENI, for the...
The Member of Parliament for Pru East, Kwabena Donkor, wants the Akufo-Addo administration to renegotiate the gas price component of Ghana’s 20-year deal with Italian oil company, ENI, for the...
From spells to win back an errant lover to help communing with the spirits, Myanmar's mediums, soothsayers and wizards dabbling in the occult, are in high demand. Most people here believe in a brand...
By:Onipa Ba Ghana @60 Presidential Address Ignores True Inventor And Icon Of Ghana’s Highlife Music: The Late E. K. Nyame. I am a staunch NPP supporter. I have been supporting the progressive...
At least four people have been killed by tropical cyclone Enawo in Madagascar, the prime minister said Wednesday, as the storm tracked towards the capital Antananarivo threatening severe flooding....
Israel's parliament gave preliminary approval Wednesday to two controversial measures that would limit calls to prayers from mosques, including one prohibiting the use of loudspeakers at all hours,...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Wednesday that he will not hesitate to strike "terrorist sites" in neighbouring countries, after Baghdad carried out air raids in Syria last month. "I will...
Japanese political dissenters chalked up a small victory Wednesday when a court struck down a city's move to ban a "mannequin flash mob" anti-government protest. The Yokohama District Court nullified...
British foreign minister Boris Johnson visited Israel and the Palestinian territories Wednesday for talks with leaders from both sides as Donald Trump's arrival as US president casts uncertainty over...
