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Ablakwa visits Ghanaian POWs in Ukraine, confirms they are alive and well

Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has confirmed that two Ghanaian nationals held as prisoners of war in Ukraine are alive and...

Ghana reaffirms commitment multilingual education at International Mother Language Day event in UK Parliament

Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Sabah Zita Benson, has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to inclusive multilingual policies during a commemorative...

Foreign Affairs Ministry issues travel advisory over rising violence in Mexico

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has urged Ghanaians to exercise extreme caution when travelling to or residing in Mexico amid escalating...

What is the UK’s new travel system and how are dual nationals affected?

A new travel system for visitors to the UK comes into force from Wednesday for citizens of dozens of countries like the US and...

Mexico hunts 23 inmates sprung from jail during wave of violence

Police in Mexico are searching for a number of inmates sprung from a prison in Puerto Vallarta during a wave of attacks launched by...

Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the massive trove of files released by the...

First British baby born using transplanted womb from dead donor

A baby boy has become the first child in the UK to be born using a womb transplanted from a dead donor. Grace Bell, who...

15 killed after helicopter crashes during Peru flood rescue

Fifteen people have died after a military helicopter providing rescue services during severe flooding in southern Peru crashed on Sunday. The Peruvian Air Force said...

Mexico’s most wanted drug lord ‘El Mencho’ killed in military operation

Mexico's most wanted man and the leader of the feared Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel has been killed during a security operation to...

Divers recover bodies of seven Chinese tourists from bottom of Lake Baikal

Russian authorities say divers have recovered the bodies of seven Chinese tourists and a Russian driver who died after their mini-bus plunged under the...

Canada looks to trade talks after US Supreme Court tosses Trump’s tariffs

Celebrations in Canada over the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down President Donald Trump's global tariffs were both brief and muted. The...

Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices over tariffs ruling

US President Donald Trump lashed out in unusually personal terms against the six Supreme Court justices who handed him one of the biggest setbacks...

Epstein files could be just tip of the iceberg for Andrew investigation

When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested at about 08:00 on Thursday, it had nothing to do with Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused him of...

UK ex-Prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the United Kingdom former royal, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. A statement from Thames Valley police was released Thursday that...

Zuckerberg defends Meta in landmark social media addiction trial

Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Instagram-owner Meta Platforms, appeared in a California court on Wednesday defending his leadership of the company in a landmark...

‘Difficult’ Russia-Ukraine peace talks end without breakthrough

Talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the US aimed at ending Moscow's war in Ukraine have concluded without a breakthrough. The trilateral meetings, held in Geneva,...

Peru’s president impeached four months into term

Peru's Congress has voted to impeach interim President José Jerí just four months into his term for failing to disclose meetings with Chinese businessmen. The...

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies aged 84

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the civil rights movement in the...

Malawi suspects wanted for staging fake funeral procession to smuggle charcoal

At least nine people are on the run after they were caught smuggling charcoal in a hearse, complete with a fake funeral procession, Malawi...

Morocco residents begin returning to northwest as flood waters recede

Moroccan authorities began organising the gradual return of residents to the city of Ksar El Kebir and other flood-hit areas in northwestern Morocco as weather conditions...

‘Trump will be gone in three years’: Top Democrats try to reassure Europe

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the centre of attention at the Munich Security Summit, as European leaders wondered apprehensively what tone he...

US deports 9 to Cameroon despite court protections, NYT says

The Trump administration secretly deported nine people to Cameroon, despite many of them having U.S. court protections against such action and none of them...

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, the UK and European allies have said. Two years...

Obama addresses racist video shared by Trump depicting him as an ape

Former US President Barack Obama has indirectly addressed a racist video posted on President Donald Trump's social media, telling a podcast host that the...

North Korea’s leader set to appoint 13-year-old daughter as successor

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has selected his daughter as his heir, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday. Kim Ju Ae -...

Russia blocks WhatsApp amid wider clampdown on social media

Russia has confirmed that it has blocked instant messaging app WhatsApp in the country, instead directing Russian citizens to use its state-backed Max app. The...

Astronomers discover weird ‘inside-out’ solar system

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar...

US House votes to overturn Trump’s tariffs on Canada

The US House of Representatives has voted to rescind US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods. In a 219-211 vote, six Republican lawmakers joined...

Pilot praised after crash-landing faulty Somali passenger plane on seashore

An airline in Somalia has praised one of its pilots after he crash-landed his passenger plane, which had suffered a technical fault, on the...

Ex-police chief said Trump told him in 2006 ‘everyone’ knew of Epstein’s behaviour

A former Florida police chief said he received a call from Donald Trump in 2006 in which the now-president told him "everyone" knows about...

Egypt plans $1bn Red Sea marina, hotel development

Egypt announced plans on Monday for a new $1 billion marina, hotel, and housing development on the Red Sea to boost the region's tourism...

Church worker steals £100k to fund ‘high lifestyle’

A church worker who stole nearly £100,000 from the Diocese of Westminster to fund her “high lifestyle” has been fined £1,000. Francisca Yawson, 38,...

Akufo-Addo in Bangladesh as Commonwealth Observer Group Chair

Former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is chairing a Commonwealth Observer Group for Bangladesh’s Parliamentary Election and Referendum scheduled for February 12. The former Ghanaian...

Venezuela’s opposition says party leader kidnapped hours after being freed

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said her opposition colleague Juan Pablo Guanipa had been kidnapped just hours after being released from detention. The Nobel...

France murder trial complicated by twin brothers with same DNA

Two identical twins on trial for murder in France have confounded attempts to determine which one pulled the trigger because they have the same...

Gunmen kill 3 people, abduct Catholic priest and several others in northern Nigeria

Gunmen killed three people and abducted a Catholic priest during an early morning attack on the clergyman's residence in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state,...

South Africa to withdraw its troops from UN peacekeeping mission in Congo

South Africa will withdraw its troops from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said in...

Ghana, Zambia sign Air Services deal to enable direct flights

Ghana and Zambia have signed a bilateral air services agreement to allow direct flights between the two countries, a move expected to boost trade,...

Leader of South Africa’s second largest party to step down

South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has said he will not seek re-election as the party's leader in April - a move...

36 UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula

Thirty-six infants in the UK have had suspected food poisoning from contaminated baby formula. It comes after specific batches made by Nestle and Danone were...