Barely emerging from a political crisis, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi held his new cabinet's first meeting Friday amid stark warnings that Italy's industrial production, competitiveness and employment were in dire need of a boost.
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Chad said Thursday it had resumed its role as a mediator in Sudan's Darfur conflict, raising hopes of renewed efforts to negotiate an end to the two-year-old crisis.
"Chad and the Chadian president are committed to continuing to exert…
Six Iraqis were arrested on
Saturday for allegedly involving in the shooting down of a
Bulgarian helicopter on Thursday that killed all 11 people aboard,
the US military said in a statement.
The statement said that an Iraqi civil…
British Prime Minister Tony Blair hit election arch-rival Michael Howard where it hurt Friday, blasting the Conservative leader's pet policy on asylum and immigration.
Describing Howard's pledges to slap a quota on foreign workers as …
The leaderships of
the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC) have agreed to endorse the decision of the two parties to unite.
The decision followed a stage reached at the previous Nkrumaist Unity …
Germany fired its ambassador to Switzerland Thursday after he publicly criticized Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer over a policy to stop printing staff obituaries for former Nazis.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman confirmed that Frank E…
The moderate wing of Indian Kashmir's main separatist alliance said Monday it will meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraff when he visits New Delhi this weekend, local media reported.
The All Party Hurriyat Conference has been push…
A forum of stakeholders was held at Wa on Monday to provide a platform to the visiting 16-member mission from the South African based African Peer Review Mission.
The forum was an opportunity to question stakeholders on a range of is…
George Appiah, a 20-year-old unemployed and Kaku Kwasi Ebra, a 15-year-old student in Cote d'Ivoire, appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday for stealing a VCD deck.
Ebra, who is a brother-in-law to Appiah told t…
With the UN Security Council deadlocked over key issues in Sudan, the United States on Tuesday announced it would put forward three separate UN resolutions to tackle the Darfur crisis.
After weeks of stalemate on potential war crimes …
Insurgents of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) over the weekend chopped off lips, ears and breasts of seven women in northern Uganda's Kitgum district, a local leader and the official newspaper reported Monday.
The incident occurred n…
Senior allies of French President Jacques Chirac are to appear in court on Monday in a corruption case examining allegations that kickbacks were paid for public works contracts to finance political parties.
A total of 47 people have b…
Zambia's Vice President Lupando Mwape is threatening to quit his party over alleged acts of corruption and bribery to win votes ahead of the ruling party's convention, state radio said on Monday.
Mwape said senior figures within the r…
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud issued a new appeal for national dialogue on Saturday, hours after a bomb blast in a Beirut suburb sparked fears of a return to sectarian violence.
Eleven people were wounded shortly after midnight when…
The Ugandan army said on Sunday that it had killed 10 fighters of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an ambush and battles in northern Gulu district over the weekend.
"Ten LRA fighters have been put out of action between yester…
Mr Alfred Sallia Fawundu, UN Resident Co-ordinator and former UNDP Resident Representative in Guinea Bissau, Benin and Ghana, said governance should involve leadership at all levels and not relegated to politicians alone, to ensure shared …
Parliament on Friday passed the appropriation bill authorising government to spend 34.618 trillion cedis.
The Minority joined forces with the Majority to pass this bill that, for the first time, authorises the Minister of Finance to w…
US President George W. Bush on Friday called on his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, to help defend his embattled plan to partly privatise the government-run retirement programme.
During a speech here on the issue, Bush brought…
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the mediator in the conflict in the Cote d'ivoire
has called all sides to an urgent meeting in Pretoria, "to take the peace process forward," his spokesman confirmed Friday.
An Ivorian opposition…
The patriarch of the Maronite church, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, on Friday called for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia to disarm along with Syria's promised withdrawal from the country.
Sfeir, who has become a leading figure in the Lebanese…
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is considering a boycott of next week's Arab summit in Algiers and the hosts are leading efforts to persuade him to change his mind, Arab diplomats said Friday.
"President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is hoping to…
Arab leaders were preparing for their summit next week in Algeria with a wind of democracy bringing hesistant change to some of their countries, spurred by internal and external pressure.
A year after grudgingly pledging to push ahead…
South Korea said Friday it would tighten its hold over disputed islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) as the Japanese foreign minister said frayed diplomatic relations were keeping Tokyo from ending the row over Japan's claim to the remote…
Up to 5,000 terrified villagers fled their homes in northeast Kenya on Tuesday after militiamen massacred 22 members of a rival clan, many of them women and children, in a pre-dawn raid, officials said.
The villagers began to flee sho…
The chief of Awutu Nfaadwene, near Awutu Bontrase in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District, Nana Kwadwo Banafo I, on Sunday commended the Kufuor administration for rehabilitating the Awutu Bontrase-Nfaadwene-Obuase feeder road.
According …
Hamas's decision to take part in the Palestinian election in July could be the beginning of a major switch that takes the Islamist group from
a resistance movement to political faction, analysts said.
Saturday's announcement that it…
The European Commission called on Wednesday on Russia to respect human rights and work for a political solution to the Chechen conflict, after the killing of rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov by Russian forces.
The European Union (EU)'s ex…
UN chief Kofi Annan was Thursday to deliver a global strategy for fighting terrorism on the eve of commemorations in Madrid for the train bombings a year ago that ranks as one of the worst attacks ever in Europe.
The leader of the wor…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday called on member countries of the Commonwealth to rededicate themselves to the values and goals of the club.
In a message to celebrate Commonwealth Day which falls on Monday March 14, Preside…
Dr Ato Quayson, Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, at the weekend urged Ghanaian students in the Diaspora to return home and assist in national reconstruction after the completion of their academic programmes.…
Negotiations on the revision of the Cotonou Agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries ended in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday with an agreement to improve political dialogue on human rights, democratic principle…
US President George W. Bush urged Russia on Monday to "renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law" and said Europe and the United States should make such reforms central to relations with
Moscow.
Days before he was due to m…
A Turkish businessman, Kahraman Sadikoglu, has been freed after almost two months as a hostage in Iraq and is expected home on Tuesday, the Turkish foreign ministry said.
Sadikoglu, who was seized on December 19, was freed late on Mon…
An opposition parliamentarian was arrested late Thursday and taken to a Cambodian military prosecutor's office, less than 24 hours after losing his immunity from prosecution, his party told AFP.
"Cheam Channy has been arrested just mi…
Improvement in the economy and human resource development formed the basis of President John Agyekum Kufuor's State of the Nation Address to the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana at Parliament House in …
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday exhorted Ghanaians to exercise a sense of responsibility as they enjoyed the freedoms of association and expression.
Delivering his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Accra, he s…
President George W. Bush on Thursday is to be sworn in for his second term in office, mindful of a legacy shaped by the war on terrorism and Iraq.
"America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at home, the …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday commended Muslims on the celebration of Eid-Ul-Adha, the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice and urged Ghanaians to promote its lofty ideals.
A statement signed by Mr Harona Esseku, National Chairm…
Mr Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi-Hughes, who was elected Speaker of Parliament on Thursday, is a distinguished legal practitioner.
He was born at Cape Coast in the Central Region on September 4, 1939, was educated at Cape Coast Government B…
A member of the Awutu Traditional Council, Nai Kwao Otuo V, has warned the electorate not to burden Members of Parliament in their constituencies with their personal economic and other problems.
Nai Otuo said such act often tends to …
The following is the Oath of a Speaker to be sworn before the Chief Justice.
I............do (in the name of the Almighty God swear) (solemnly affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Republic of Ghana as by law esta…
The following is the Presidential Oath to be administered by the Chief Justice before Parliament.
1........having been elected to the high office of President of the Republic of Ghana do (in the name of the Almighty God swear) (solemnly a…
Mr George Ayisi-Boateng, a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, has called on Madam Hawa Yakubu, the defeated Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central to desist from attempt to cause division and confus…
The Convention People's Party (CPP) on Saturday urged the government to ensure law and order was maintained in the country to avoid any post election related disturbances.
The party said, "It has learnt with rude shock and utter disb…
The Elections Observation Committee of the Religious Bodies on Thursday gave the thumbs-up to Election 2004 saying the elections were free, fair and devoid of any major intimidation that could have undermined the entire process.
The…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Thursday announced that its Presidential Candidate, President John Agyekum Kufuor has won 53 per cent of the total valid votes cast in Tuesday's Presidential Elections and was awaiting the formal announceme…
Voting was progressing well throughout the country on Tuesday with the Chairman of the Electoral Commission expressing satisfaction with the balloting.
All the four presidential candidates and former President Jerry John Rawlings al…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has won both the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Ningo/Prampram Constituency in the Dangme West District of the Greater Accra Region.
The incumbent Member of Parliament, Mr Eno…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) won in both the presidential and parliamentary elections in the newly created Sege Constituency of the Dangme East District in the just ended election.
The party's parliamentary candidate, Mr Alfred…
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