Musings Of A Naïve African
Africa or African states largely have reasonable cause to reconsider their membership of the International Criminal Court, even if it means reversal of their Rome Statute ratification. My stance is...
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Republicans Aim To Coax Trump Toward House Trade Tax Plan
Republicans in the U. S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of using the tax code to promote exports while slashing corporate taxes, framing it as...
Oil Price Soars As Opec Agrees Output Cut
Saudi Arabia agreed to cut output by about 500,000 barrels per day - a total reduction of 4.5%. The oil cartel Opec has agreed its first supply cut in eight years in order to boost the price of oil....
Intelligence Agency Employee Arrested Over Islamist Comments
An employee of the German intelligence agency (BfV) has been arrested after making Islamist statements and sharing agency material, German media report. A BfV spokesman quoted by Reuters news agency...
Trump To Name Georgia Lawmaker Tom Price As Health Secretary
Trump to name Georgia lawmaker Tom Price as health secretary President-elect Donald Trump is set to announce on Tuesday that he has chosen Republican U. S. Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic...
Iranian Vessel Points Weapon At U.S. Helicopter
A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U. S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action...
Syrian Forces Capture Key Aleppo Area
Syrian government forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory in two. State TV said government troops were dismantling mines and explosives and continuing their...
Syria Army Makes Rapid Gains In Rebel-Held East Aleppo
Syrian government forces have been making rapid advances into eastern Aleppo, forcing thousands of civilians to flee. The Syrian army captured Jabal Badro on Sunday, a day after seizing Hanano...
Mahama Announces E-Wallet Technology To Boost Cocoa Economy
President John Mahama says his government has devised a new technology that will get fertilizers directly to cocoa farmers without the use of middle men. This is to bring an end to what is popularly...
Syria Troops ‘retake’ Key Aleppo District
Syrian government forces have retaken the largest rebel-controlled district in eastern Aleppo, state media report. The capture of Masaken Hanano, in north-east Aleppo, could give Syria's army...
Clinton To Participate In Wisconsin Recount
Hilary Clinton's campaign on Saturday said that it would participate in a recount initiated by Green Party nominee Jill Stein in Wisconsin and said it would take similar action if a recount was...
Car Bomb Attack Hits Mogadishu
A suspected car bomb has killed at least 11 people and injured another 16 when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a busy market in the Somali capital, police and witnesses said. Witnesses saw...
U.S Online Sales Jumps On Black Friday
U. S. online sales surged on Black Friday, with Amazon.com Inc offering the steepest discounts among e-commerce sites as it set the agenda for what has traditionally been the biggest shopping day of...
Brazil Minister Resigns Over Corruption Scandal
A prominent Brazilian minister accused of corruption has resigned, over a scandal which also involves President Michel Temer. Geddel Vieira Lima, who was in charge of relations with Congress, was...
Manhunt Follows French Missionaries’ Home Attack
French police are searching for a masked attacker suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France, according to authorities. An...
Business Booms At Trump Tower, Nearby Retailers Hit
Bailey White, 13, stood patiently in line with her little brother Keaton at the gift store inside the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, each clutching a stuffed terrier named...
Breitbart News Site Blocked By Ad Exchange
A leading ad exchange has blacklisted Breitbart News, which until recently was run by one of US President-elect Donald Trump’s closest advisers. AppNexus said it would no longer allow Breitbart to...
Iraq Militias ‘cut Off IS Access To City’
An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled by so-called Islamic State. The Popular Mobilisation (Hashd al-Shaabi) declared it...
Germany-Israel Alarm As US White Supremacists Rise
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is concerned that white supremacists in the United States are being emboldened by the election of Donald Trump and is watching developments closely. The...
Hackers Target European ATMs
Cyber criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber...