U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron held a phone conversation on
Wednesday, discussing increasing military, diplomatic and economic pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the White House said in a
sta…
Haiti's Electoral Council on Wednesday announced the final outcome of the second round of the
presidential elections of March 20, giving the triumph to presidential candidate Michel Martelly, news reaching here said.
A spokesman for Hait…
Tension increased in Haiti Wednesday as the country was waiting for the final results of the
presidential election and the legislative elections held last month.
Demonstrators walked across the country, demanding the Provisional Electora…
A South Korean man nearly cut off his finger and created a commotion in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul Thursday, protesting against Tokyo's renewed territorial claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, police said.
T…
US federal authorities have filed a lawsuit against a marine services company based in Alabama for alleged demeaning treatment of 500 Indian employees, who were forced to live in "substandard" accommodations and given "unwholesome" food.
…
Hundreds of homes were evacuated on Wednesday in Monument, U.S. state of Colorado after hydrochloric acid was leaking from a train car, authorities said.
The leakage was first reported around 1 a.m. local time when a southbound train spot…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for a worldwide review of nuclear safety standards during a trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
"The standards of nuclear safety should be fully reviewed. The IAEA (International Atom…
Tim Hetherington, an award- winning photographer and Osar-nominated film director, was killed on
Wednesday in Misrata of western Libya while covering fighting between government and rebel forces, media reports said here.
Hetherington, a …
The Yagbonwura, Tuntumbe Boresa Sulemana Jakpa II, overlord of the Gonja Traditional Area, has affirmed his participation in helping to resolve the Dagbon crisis.
The Yagbonwura said he would be part of the eminent chiefs constituted…
Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, leader of the 40- member African Union (AU) Observer Mission for Nigeria’s Presidential elections, on Saturday, toured some polling centres, as the first phase of the polls got underway nation-wide.
…
Seeking efforts aimed at increasing "additional investment flows" to developing countries, India has said the need to positively impact the lives of the poor should be the "mantra" that should permeate the thinking of the World Bank.
…
South Korea plans to file a charge against its citizens illegally staying in Libya this week for defying a government order to leave the war-torn country for safety reasons, the foreign ministry said Sunday.
Currently, 13 South Koreans…
Now, IAF and and the Indian Army pilots will be able to stay airborne for longer periods.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation has come up with composite oxygen cylinders that will lighten the burden of military helicop…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has embarked on several developmental projects including the construction of classroom blocks to give decent accommodation to students in his constituency.
O…
The Yagbonwura, Tuntumbe Boresa Sulemana Jakpa II, overlord of the Gonja Traditional Area, has affirmed his participation in helping to resolve the Dagbon crisis.
The Yagbonwura said he would be part of the eminent chiefs constituted…
Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, leader of the 40- member African Union (AU) Observer Mission for Nigeria’s Presidential elections, on Saturday, toured some polling centres, as the first phase of the polls got underway nation-wide.
…
Seeking efforts aimed at increasing "additional investment flows" to developing countries, India has said the need to positively impact the lives of the poor should be the "mantra" that should permeate the thinking of the World Bank.
…
South Korea plans to file a charge against its citizens illegally staying in Libya this week for defying a government order to leave the war-torn country for safety reasons, the foreign ministry said Sunday.
Currently, 13 South Koreans…
Now, IAF and and the Indian Army pilots will be able to stay airborne for longer periods.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation has come up with composite oxygen cylinders that will lighten the burden of military helicop…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has embarked on several developmental projects including the construction of classroom blocks to give decent accommodation to students in his constituency.
O…
The Central Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwamina Duncan, has urged delegates to vote for marketable candidates that could win elections in the 2012 Parliamentary and Presidential elections.
Mr Duncan said t…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has issued a warning to persons who are roaming the country and masquerading as his close confidantes.
He said he has not accorded anyone the responsibility to go round constituencies to make stat…
Algeria on Friday drew attention of the international community to the dangers inherent in the presence at her borders of a terrorism incubator, which would dip abundantly into an open-air arsenal.
A statement issued in Accra by the …
The Northern Regional and Constituency Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have finally given their support to President Professor John Atta Mills as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2012 general elections.
…
With Monday's arrest of Cote d'Ivoire's outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo, the country has opened another chapter of its history.
The country which is now under full control of former prime minister Alassane Ouattara has embarked on a new…
Yemen's opposition announced on Thursday that they officially accepted the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), about transferring power from President Ali Abdullah Saleh to his deputy.
"There was just only one initiative pro…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reshuffled the cabinet Thursday, aiming to improve the government' s performance after doubts about the performance of some ministries.
On March 29, al-Assad sacked the cabinet headed by Naji al- Otari, wh…
Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou met on Thursday with his Libyan counterpart Abdel Ati al-Obeidi on how to seek a political solution to the turmoil in Libya.
Obeidi, the new Libyan foreign minister who arrived in Cyprus on Wednes…
Amir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said on Thursday that his country stands ready to provide arms to the Libyan opposition on request.
"If they will ask for weapons, we're going to provide them," the amir, who is on a visit to the U…
Political solutions, rather than mere military actions, have increasingly become the right exit out of the deteriorating Libyan crisis.
The United Nations and some regional blocs Thursday stroke a right tone by calling for a political sol…
China on Thursday called on the international community to approach the crisis in Libya through political means.
"We believe that the international community should continue to seek political means for resolving the crisis in Libya," Fore…
Arab League (AL), United Nations, European Union, African Union and the Organization of Islamic Conference urged on Thursday in AL headquarters in Cairo a political solution on Libyan crisis starting with immediate ceasefire.
AL Secretary…
There is no military solution to the Libyan conflicts and NATO hopes to see a political one in the near future, the alliance's head, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said just ahead of the foreign ministers' gathering on Thursday.
"The honest answe…
International and regional leaders discussed in Cairo on Thursday finding peaceful means to solve the humanitarian crisis, achieve freedom and democracy inspired by the Libyan people.
The Arab League General Secretary Amr Moussa said at t…
Leaders of the United States, Britain and France are vowing to push ahead with their mission in Libya until the United Nations Security Council resolutions have been implemented and the Libyan people "can choose their own future."
U.S. Pr…
NATO and its partners will not end their operation in Libya until three objectives have been achieved, including the withdrawal of government troops, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday.
During the meeting, the fore…
An unknown radical Muslim group on Thursday said it kidnapped an European activist in the Gaza Strip and demanded Hamas authorities to free members of the Salafi group.
The group released a video showing the hostage blindfolded and called…
U.S. Congress on Thursday passed the federal budget that cut billions of government spending, sending it for President Barack Obama's signature.
The Senate passed the bill with a vote of 81-19. Hours earlier, the House of Representative a…
The Central Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwamina Duncan, has urged delegates to vote for marketable candidates that could win elections in the 2012 Parliamentary and Presidential elections.
Mr Duncan said t…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has issued a warning to persons who are roaming the country and masquerading as his close confidantes.
He said he has not accorded anyone the responsibility to go round constituencies to make stat…
Algeria on Friday drew attention of the international community to the dangers inherent in the presence at her borders of a terrorism incubator, which would dip abundantly into an open-air arsenal.
A statement issued in Accra by the …
The Northern Regional and Constituency Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have finally given their support to President Professor John Atta Mills as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2012 general elections.
…
With Monday's arrest of Cote d'Ivoire's outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo, the country has opened another chapter of its history.
The country which is now under full control of former prime minister Alassane Ouattara has embarked on a new…
Yemen's opposition announced on Thursday that they officially accepted the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), about transferring power from President Ali Abdullah Saleh to his deputy.
"There was just only one initiative pro…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reshuffled the cabinet Thursday, aiming to improve the government' s performance after doubts about the performance of some ministries.
On March 29, al-Assad sacked the cabinet headed by Naji al- Otari, wh…
Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou met on Thursday with his Libyan counterpart Abdel Ati al-Obeidi on how to seek a political solution to the turmoil in Libya.
Obeidi, the new Libyan foreign minister who arrived in Cyprus on Wednes…
Amir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said on Thursday that his country stands ready to provide arms to the Libyan opposition on request.
"If they will ask for weapons, we're going to provide them," the amir, who is on a visit to the U…
Political solutions, rather than mere military actions, have increasingly become the right exit out of the deteriorating Libyan crisis.
The United Nations and some regional blocs Thursday stroke a right tone by calling for a political sol…
China on Thursday called on the international community to approach the crisis in Libya through political means.
"We believe that the international community should continue to seek political means for resolving the crisis in Libya," Fore…
Arab League (AL), United Nations, European Union, African Union and the Organization of Islamic Conference urged on Thursday in AL headquarters in Cairo a political solution on Libyan crisis starting with immediate ceasefire.
AL Secretary…
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