The Trump administration has approved plans to ask US visa applicants for details of their social media use. Consular officials can now ask for social media usernames going back five years via a new questionnaire. It also allows authorities to request email addresses, phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information. This can be requested ...

The biggest US tech firms are rallying behind the 2015 Paris climate agreement, despite President Trump’s decision to leave it. Mr Trump’s move has been met with dismay from other world leaders signed up to the accord – but much of the outcry can be heard on the west coast of his own country. The ...

World leaders have condemned Saturday’s London terror attack which left seven people dead and more than 30 injured. President Emmanuel Macron said France, which had two citizens injured in the attack, was more than ever at Britain’s side. Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull said his “prayers and resolute solidarity” were with the British people. One Australian ...

Kingmakers of the Waala traditional council have enskined former president Jerry John Rawlings as a chief in the Wa Naa’s paramountcy. The enskinment was done at a short ceremony when the former president visited the Wa Naa’s Palace as part of activities to mark the commemoration of the 38th-anniversary of June 4th in Wa. Naa ...

Comedian Bill Maher has apologised for using a racial slur on live television. The host of “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO used a derogatory term for African-Americans while interviewing Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse. The “joke” prompted a huge backlash, particularly on social media. Maher said he used the slur in the “banter of ...

About 1,000 people were injured in the Italian city of Turin after a firecracker provoked a stampede on Saturday night, police say. Thousands of football fans were watching a live relay of Juventus’ Champions League final against Real Madrid in Cardiff when a bang was heard and rumours of an explosion spread. At least two ...

The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), has held an inception technical workshop for the “Environmentally Sound Disposal and Recycling of E-waste in Ghana” Programme in Accra. The Technical workshop is supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. With an approved budget of 15 million Euro from the German Government, ...

A social action group, One Ghana Movement, is advocating for justice for persons who were affected in the June 3 twin disaster which happened at the Goil fuel station in Accra some two years ago. Most of the families of the over 150 persons who lost their lives in the rain and fire explosion incident, ...

Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South has called on the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to take preventive measures to check the impending Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) from leaking. According to him the perennial leakages of the WAEC papers was an unfortunate phenomenon which grossly undermined the integrity of ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has charged Ghanaians to see the murder of the late military captain, Maxwell Mahama, as a wake-up call on state institutions to live up to their duties and responsibilities in the fight against lawlessness in the country. Addressing a large crowd of people at the palace of the Paramount Chief ...

The Majority Chief Whip in Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani East, Kwasi Ameyaw Cheremeh has reiterated government’s commitment to redeem its promises by initiating programmes and policies that is geared towards improving the living condition of Ghanaians. He assured that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration under Nana Akufo-Addo will set in ...

Six people have been killed and at least 48 injured in a terror incident in London in which three male attackers were shot dead by police. A white van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00 BST on Saturday before three men got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market. Police said the ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings will climax this year’s June 4 anniversary with a grand durbar in the Upper West Regional capital of Wa on Sunday June 4, 2017. A statement issued by the June 4th Anniversary Planning committee said the leader of the June 4 uprising and Chairman of the AFRC, Flt Lt Jerry ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated that government has put measures in place to address the challenges that have marred previous Hajj pilgrimages. According to Dr. Bawumia, the government is committed to ensuring that this year’s pilgrimage comes off without the hitches which have been associated with the process in the past. Addressing ...