Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the recent Israeli bill on settlements in the West Bank is “a major setback” to peacemaking efforts. Abbas said in a letter to the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini that “the decision taken by the Israeli government is a major setback […]
Training maneuvers began this week near Japan’s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa of the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35 fighter jets, local media said here Wednesday. The drills of the next-generation stealth aircraft were conducted this week following the first overseas deployment by the U.S. of the fighter jets to the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in […]
The oversight body monitoring South Sudan’s peace agreement on Wednesday strongly condemned recent increase in fighting across the East African nation that has displaced over 50,000 people since January. Festus Mogae, Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) told a meeting of stakeholders in the capital Juba that recent flareup in armed clashes, […]
A Chinese film festival that will travel the length and breadth of Britain was announced Wednesday in Manchester. Manchester Airport, along with Chinese company Hainan Airlines, is launching the festival to celebrate movies and culture from China. Each event is free of charge, and everyone that attends will go into a competition to win a […]
Unknown armed men gunned down six employees of ICRC in the northern Jauzjan province on Wednesday, the spokesman for ICRC here in Kabul, Ramin Ayaz Ahmad said. “Unfortunately the gruesome incident happened after unidentified armed men gunned down six employees of ICRC in Jauzjan province today,” Ahmad told Xinhua without providing more details. However, governor […]
The news was important enough to be included in all the major news programs in German television on Tuesday evening. Not only for fans of the 2016 German Champion Bayern Munich, defender and midfielder Philipp Lahm’s announcement that he will retire at the end of the current season was an unpleasant late evening surprise. In […]
Somali lawmakers began casting their votes on Wednesday in tightly contested presidential elections drawing 21 candidates amid heavy security in the capital Mogadishu. Members of the upper and lower houses started casting their votes in Mogadishu in the first round through the secret ballot with the winning candidate requiring at least 219 votes or a […]
Ghanaian-Born Dutch former player, George Boateng has asked Ghana Football Association (GFA) to set a criteria for the appointment of a new head coach for the Blackstars after the announcement of the exit of Mr. Avram Grant. According to the former Middlesborough captain, it is very prudent for Ghana, to appoint former Ghanaian players as […]
Bulgaria’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) in December 2016 rose by 6.9 percent year-on-year, and by 2.1 percent compared with November, the country’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said Wednesday. Preliminary NSI data showed that on an annual basis, December’s IPI increased in the manufacturing by 9.6 percent and in the mining and quarrying industry by 2.5 […]
Algerian side MC Alger, will arrive in Ghana on Thursday February 9, ahead of their first leg Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Confederations Cup encounter against Bechem United on Sunday, February 12, at the Accra Sports Stadium. According to Bechem United’s Administrative Manager, Mr. Francis Gorman, The North Africans, will lodge at Holiday-Inn hotel at […]
Singapore shares closed 0.17 percent lower on Wednesday, as lingering political and economic uncertainty in the U.S. and Europe triggered profit-taking. Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, his protectionist measures on international trade and controversial steps to tighten entry to immigrants from selected countries have spread anxiety in financial markets across […]
India’s central bank Wednesday kept the key repo rate unchanged at 6.25 percent, contrary to expectations. Repo rate is the short-term rate at which the central bank lends money to other banks in the country. Consequently, the reverse repo rate has been kept steady at 5.75 percent, and the marginal standing facility rate and the […]
The Sudanese Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Babikir Elsiddig Mohamed Elamin, has congratulated Ghana for being a model of democracy and stability in Africa. Speaking at a ceremony in Accra to mark the 61st independence day celebration of Sudan and how that country has fared well during 2016 in attaining lasting and universal political stability, the […]
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has granted 25 billion CFA Francs loan (about 40.7 million U.S. dollars) to the financing of a electricity project in Senegal. The loan represents 82.3 percent of the total cost of this project of the Senegalese National Electricity Corporation (Senelec), a release from bank headquarters in the capital Lome […]
Somalia’s 329 members of parliament (MPs) are due to choose a state president on Wednesday amid heavy security in the capital city of Mogadishu and its environs, among some 20 candidates. Incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is seeking re-election against other candidates, including his predecessor Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and two former prime ministers. On […]
Vietnam expects pepper to remain a key foreign currency earner for the country in 2017, with targeted export turnover of 1.6 billion U.S. dollars, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade on Wednesday. With a forecast year-on-year export growth of 13 percent, pepper is hoped to be among the 13 commodities earning shipment revenue […]
Malaysia’s exports expanded by 10.7 percent to 75.55 billion ringgit (17.01 billion U.S. dollars) in December, recording the highest value in 2016, said the International Trade and Industry Ministry in a report on Wednesday. The surge was supported by higher exports of manufactured goods and agriculture and mining goods, including electrical and electronic products and […]
Russia’s Air Defense and Aerospace Forces have been put on full alert as part of an unexpected inspection ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. “Air defense units of the Moscow region and central industrial area were put on highest levels of combat readiness. Air defense teams were put on […]
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to shut off America’s external security threats by issuing a travel ban, yet such a short-cut approach would be to little avail, and a latent bane for the global fight against terrorism. The Trump team on Tuesday scrambled to defend in a U.S. court of appeals the legitimacy and effectiveness […]
The top floor of a two storey building at South Suntreso near Trust care hospital, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region exploded around 4:30am on Wednesday spreading to other rooms. No casualty was recorded but properties worth millions of Ghana cedis have been lost in the inferno. Abusua FM’s News Editor Frank Jackson Aboagye reported that one of the occupants […]
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