Only 30 percent of $1.4 billion aid needed in 2017 for refugees fleeing the conflict in South Sudan has been raised, a UN official said Monday, raising fears of aid cuts. Nearly two million South...
The jihadist takeover of Syria's key Idlib province raises the prospect that the region could become the next target of the international participants in the country's complex war. The northern...
US authorities on Monday charged the driver of the overheated truck found in Texas packed with migrants with one count of transporting "illegal" immigrants, prosecutors said, as the death toll rose...
Donald Trump's war of words against his attorney general and one-time ally Jeff Sessions escalated Monday, raising speculation the president may be preparing the ground to replace him. Trump took to...
President Donald Trump warned Republicans on Monday that they have one "last chance" to pass the party's health care reforms, as US lawmakers brace for a vote whose fate remained uncertain. With the...
The head of US homeland security says the deaths of nine people inside an overheated truck packed with migrants in Texas shows the "brutality" of smugglers. The migrants were discovered in the early...
Sales of existing US homes dipped in June, squeezed by a tight market struggling to keep up with demand, according to industry figures released Monday. The slide in sales reversed May's rebound, as...
Five years after the demise of former President John Atta Mills, his only surviving son, Sam Atta Mills, has said he has still not seen the autopsy report of his father. “The hospital never gave...
Russia has deployed military police to monitor two safe zones being established in Syria, the defence ministry in Moscow said Monday. Senior commander Sergei Rudskoi said Russian forces had set up...
Polish President Andrzej Duda has announced he is vetoing a controversial law to replace Supreme Court judges with government nominees. Three key judicial reforms have been passed by Poland’s...
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Monday said he had four contacts with Russian officials but denied any collusion to help his father-in-law Donald Trump win the presidency, US media said....
Nominees for the 4th edition of the 2017 AFRIMMA AWARDS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL has been released by the organizers. This year’s edition of the African Muzik Magazine AFRIMMA AWARDS now known as...
At least 35 people were killed when the Taliban attacked a hospital in central Ghor province over the weekend, a presidential spokesman said Monday. "When the Taliban entered the hospital they killed...
Something worse than what happened at the Adonko Aseda Bash in Kumasi, Ghana took place in Hartford, Connecticut, at a Hot Jam Concert headlined by American artist, Chance the Rapper. Chance the...
Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale known privately as Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr. has cautioned Ghanaians to desist from putting pressure on President Akufo-Addo to deliver on his campaign...
A South African girl has become only the third child to beat the AIDS virus into long-term remission -- almost nine years and counting -- after receiving a drug cocktail in infancy, researchers...
The UN accused Australia Monday of backtracking on a deal to relax its strong stance on asylum-seekers and resettle some refugees now held in overseas detention on home soil. The UN High Commissioner...
A top aide to US President Donald Trump was due in Israel Monday in a bid to ease tensions over new security measures at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site after a weekend of deadly violence....
A top aide to US President Donald Trump was due in Israel on Monday in a bid to ease tensions over new security measures at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site, a US official said. "President...
Omanhene of Elmina Traditional Area, Nana Kodwo Conduah VI, has appealed to Africans in the Diaspora, especially those who trace their root to the area, to return to the historic town to help develop...
