Fire Ravages GBC Stores
Fire has gutted sections of store houses at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. The fire which started around 6.50pm ravaged several items worth thousands of cedis. Deputy Public Relations officer,...
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Israeli Minister Backs Closing Al-Jazeera Bureau
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that he was in favour of closing the offices of Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, after several Arab states did so. "There is no reason for...
Israeli Minister Backs Closing Al-Jazeera Bureau
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that he was in favour of closing the offices of Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, after several Arab states did so. "There is no reason for...
Turkey FM In Doha As UN ‘alarmed’ By Gulf Crisis
The search for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis intensified Wednesday as Turkey's foreign minister landed in Qatar while the UN voiced fears over growing humanitarian concerns in the region....
Turkey FM In Doha As UN ‘alarmed’ By Gulf Crisis
The search for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis intensified Wednesday as Turkey's foreign minister landed in Qatar while the UN voiced fears over growing humanitarian concerns in the region....
Qatar Says Gulf Citizens Can Stay Despite Crisis
Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome to stay, while boasting of "business as usual" for vital gas exports. Iran also...
Qatar Tells Gulf Residents They Are Free To Stay
Qatar has said citizens of states that have cut ties with the emirate will be allowed to stay in the country despite measures against its own nationals. A statement carried on state media said Doha...
Syria Army Says It Holds Fifth of Key Desert Territory
Syrian pro-government forces now hold more than a fifth of the country's strategic desert, the army said Saturday, after reaching the eastern border with Iraq for the first time since 2015. The...
Rawlings Shocks NDC
Founder of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President Jerry John Rawlings, Thursday shocked many observers when he declined to give a detailed speech at the party’s ongoing...
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe Fires Top Prosecutor For ‘misconduct’
President Robert Mugabe has fired Zimbabwe's top prosecutor, who now faces a misconduct trial, state media reported Saturday, the latest twist in a dispute dating back more than a year. "Suspended...
Syria Army Reaches Iraq Border After US Tensions
Syrian government troops and allied forces reached the Iraqi border for the first time since 2015 on Friday, a monitor said, risking fresh tensions with US-led forces nearby. The Syrian Observatory...
Bagbin’s Assertions Fallacious – Expert
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin erred in asserting that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost the 2016 election due to its over-reliance on the state-owned media, the Executive...
North Korea Says Missile Launch A New Type of ‘cruise Rocket’
North Korea's latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of "ground-to-sea cruise rocket", Pyongyang's state media said Friday. The official KCNA news agency said the rocket was a...
NPP Takes Care of Media Better Than NDC
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament says the only political party in the country that is media friendly even when it is in opposition is the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). Alban Bagbin said...
NPP Takes Care of Media Better Than NDC Even In Opposition
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament says the only political party in the country that is media friendly even when it is in opposition is the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). Alban Bagbin said...
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Says Battling Cyber Attack
Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all systems", according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster. "Al...
NPP Will Start Fighting Among Themselves Very Soon
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has predicted, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) could soon implode with in-fighting now that it has won political power....
No Korea Family Reunions Unless Citizens Returned
A senior North Korean official on Wednesday ruled out any more reunions for family members separated decades ago by war unless 12 citizens from the reclusive state who ended up in South Korea are...
Gun Attacks and Suicide Bomb In Tehran, At Least Two Dead
Gunmen and a suicide bomber have carried out apparently coordinated attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini, state media said Wednesday, with at least two...
Several Wounded In Attacks On Iran Parliament, Tomb
Several people were reported injured after armed men burst into Tehran's parliament building and the mausoleum of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini, with state media reporting at least one...