Trump Travel Ban Comes Into Effect
People from six mainly Muslim countries and all refugees now face tougher US entry due to President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. It means people without close family or business...
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US Rolls Out Travel Ban, But Who Will Be Hit?
President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from six mostly Muslim countries will come into force late Thursday, as controversy swirls over who qualifies for an exemption based on family ties....
Woyome Files New Writ To Stop Oral Examination
Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has filed a new writ at the Supreme Court seeking to reverse a ruling by a justice of the apex court, Justice A. A Benin who granted an application by the Attorney...
Woyome Prays Court To ‘halt’ Proceedings For Oral Examination
Businessman Alfred Woyome, has prayed the Supreme Court to stay proceedings of its ruling, granting an application by the Attorney General to orally examine him over the refund of the 51 million...
Trump Travel Ban: US Sets Out Visa Criteria
The White House has set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim countries and all refugees, requiring them to have a “close” family or business tie to the US. The rules, affecting...
Trump Travel Ban To Take Partial Effect
US President Donald Trump's order to block arrivals from six mainly Muslim countries takes partial effect Thursday after he won a Supreme Court victory over rights groups. But implementation of the...
Atuguba Meets Awuku After ‘punishing’ Him During Election Petition Case
It was an interesting sight to behold when two men perceived to be bitter enemies met at the Banquet Hall of the State House during the swearing-in of the new Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo on Monday,...
Venezuela Crisis: Helicopter Launches Attack On Supreme Court
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has been attacked by grenades dropped from a helicopter in what President Nicolás Maduro called a “terrorist attack”. Footage on social media shows a police...
Companies In ‘suspicious’ Contaminated Fuel Sale Unlicensed – NPA
The National Petroleum Authority, (NPA), has confirmed that the two companies alleged to have purchased the over the sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel under suspicious circumstances from...
Kwaku Azar To ‘make Sense’ Out of SC Decision On Ghana School of Law
One of Ghana’s legal luminary, Professor Kwaku Asare, will on Thursday evening ‘make sense’ out of the Supreme Court’s declaration of the admission criteria of the Ghana School of Law as...
US Court Halts Deportations of Iraqi Nationals
A US judge has halted deportations of all Iraqi nationals -- some slated for removal as early as Tuesday -- on the grounds they could be tortured or killed if returned to the Middle Eastern country....
Minority Demands Full Scale Investigations Into BOST Petroleum Saga
The Minority in Parliament has called for a full scale investigation into issues surrounding the sale of five million substandard petroleum product onto the Ghanaian market. There have since been...
Interdict BOST Director Over Sale of Contaminated Fuel – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has called for the immediate interdiction of the Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST)Company, Alfred Obeng Boateng, over the sale of 5...
Brazil’s Michel Temer Charged With Corruption
Brazilian President Michel Temer has been charged with accepting bribes by the country’s chief prosecutor. He is accused of receiving money from the boss of a giant meatpacking firm implicated in a...
China Bans Use of Torture, Forced Confessions — Again
Chinese police and prosecutors are banned from using torture to obtain evidence under rules released Tuesday, in the latest attempt to curb forced confessions in the country's criminal justice...
Trump Travel Ban Injunction Partly Lifted By Top US Court
US President Donald Trump has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated as a “victory for our national security”. America’s highest court also granted a...
Thai Court Acquits ‘popcorn Gunman’ Accused of Protest Bloodshed
A Thai appeals court on Tuesday overturned a murder conviction of a gunman who gained national notoriety for allegedly firing an assault rifle concealed inside a popcorn bag during political clashes...
Trump Travel Ban Injunction Partly Lifted
US President Donald Trump has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated as a “victory for our national security”. America’s highest court also granted a...
US Top Court Orders Rehearing of Cross-Border Shooting Case
The US Supreme Court gave new hope Monday to the family of a Mexican boy shot on the American frontier, ordering a lower court to reconsider their lawsuit against the border patrol agent who killed...
Trump Travel Ban Injunction Partly Lifted By Top US Court
US President Donald Trump has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated as a “victory for our national security”. America’s highest court also granted a...