Maintaining that India will enter talks with Pakistan with an open mind, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh Friday said the country wants to resolve all outstanding issues, including Jammu and Kashmir, through dialogue and purposeful negotiati…
US President Barack Obama met his national security team for the monthly situation room
meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan, a day after he had an hour-long video conference with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
During the situatio…
An international meeting has agreed to step up efforts for settling Afghan war by using civilian, military and diplomatic channels, US State
Department said.
The meeting of the International Contact Group on Afghanistan was hosted by…
The United States has rejected the Venezuelan mediation offer with the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
"If he (Gaddafi) is not responding to the many calls across the international community to step down, it is uncertain t…
The US and India are holding discussions on UN peacekeeping efforts and to devise work strategy for better co-ordination between the two countries in the world body, a State Department official said.
The Assistant Secretary of State f…
Thailand has principally agreed on terms of reference (TOR) on observation related to its dispute with Cambodia over border issue, an Indonesian minister said here on Friday.
Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told reporters that as observ…
Cambodia sticks to its stance on Friday that there will be no bilateral meeting of Cambodia- Thailand General Border Committee (GBC) this month as requested by Thailand, Lt. Gen. Chhum Socheat,spokesman for Cambodian Ministry of Defense, s…
The Canadian government on Thursday tabled the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Regimes Act in Parliament, aiming to freeze assets that former allegedly repressive foreign leaders may hold in
Canada.
If passed, the legislation will allow Canad…
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Friday that his country is against military intervention in Libya because such a move could be counter-productive.
Instead, Germany calls for the international community to impose "well-targe…
Slovenia has decided to freeze temporarily an agreement with Libya on visa-free travel for diplomatic and service passport holders, local media reported Thursday.
Given the situation in Libya, implementing the deal on visa liberalization …
The UN Security Council expressed its deep concern on Thursday over the recent fighting in Abyei in southern Sudan and condemned the use of violence.
Li Baodong, China's ambassador to the UN who holds the rotating Council presidency for M…
Terrorist networks such as al-Qaida are far from being able to exploit the unrest across the Middle East, a UN official has told Xinhua.
At the onset of popular uprisings that have spread like wildfire across the Arab world, many feared t…
The United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) declared on Thursday that it was "very worried" about the West African country's security situation.
This expression of fear over the security situation came after a week of clashes in…
Some foreign governments and international organizations heaped more pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, as Russia warned of a civil war in this Northern African country.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called o…
France and Britain have agreed to increase pressure on Muammar Gaddafi's regime and called for united European response to the recent changes
in North African countries, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and his British counterpart Will…
The Council of Elders of the Old Vandals Association, alumni of the Commonwealth hall of the University of Ghana, on Saturday, elected Alhaji Razak El-Alawa as its new national president, through popular acclamation.
Alhaji EL-Alawa,…
Mr Mike Nii Nortey Oquaye, a lawyer and an aspiring Member of Parliament for the Dome/Kwabenya Constituency, on Saturday picked a nomination form at the New Patriotic Party Constituency Office amidst brass band music.
He paid a fili…
Mr Kofi Kussachin, Effutu Municipal Co-ordinating Director, said passengers had a role to play in ensuring road safety.
Mr Kussachin said this at the inauguration of the Central Regional Branch of Ghana National Association of Passen…
Several groups of People with Disabilities (PWDs) in the Upper West Region are unable to access the two per cent share of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) allocated to them.
This was due to the inability of some authorities i…
South Korea's leading right-wing civic group said Saturday that it has sent a message to the United Nations, demanding that the world body review a U.N. expert's report about South Korea's declining freedom of expression.
Frank La Rue,…
The number of South Korean nationals remaining in turmoil-battered Libya will drop to about 100 after the Seoul government's evacuation program is completed on Saturday (Korean time), a government official said Saturday.
"The evacuatio…
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) recently developed an efficacious liver cancer injection, the official news agency KCNA reported on Friday.
According to the KCNA, the Injectio Gallium-66 Microspheres which was developed b…
The United States Friday repeated its call on North Korea to improve ties with South Korea before any resumption of the six-party nuclear talks that have been stalled for years over the North's missile and nuclear tests and other provocati…
Indian-American Richard Verma, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, who played a key role in US' negotiations with Russia on the historic Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, is leaving the State Department for private sector.…
Taliban militants blew up three state-run girls school in northwest Pakistan on Saturday though there were no casualties in the attacks, officials said.
Militants blew up a girls' primary school at Kalo Banda Shawa in Swabi district o…
The third batch of Ghanaian evacuees arrived in Accra from Libya, where the country is reeling in deadly political impasse.
The evacuees, all males and numbering 102, arrived aboard a commercial Egyptian flight.
Baba Jamal, Dep…
About 700 Ghanaians fleeing the political upheaval in Libya have massed up at Salloum on the Libya-Egypt border waiting to be processed
by a special Evacuation Liaison Team (ELT) sent by the government to facilitate the repatriation of ci…
Parliament is expected to adjourn sine die on March 30 instead of March 25 2011 in order to deal with the rest of the agenda on government business, Mr Cletus Avoka, Majority Leader, said on Friday in Parliament.
Reading the business…
About 700 Ghanaians fleeing the political upheaval in Libya have massed up at Salloum on the
Libya-Egypt border waiting to be processed by a special Evacuation Liaison Team (ELT) sent by the government to facilitate the repatriation of ci…
The Somalia Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) has been urged to engage in more outreach targeted at specific groups.
In addition, it should take all the steps and measures necessary for the election of Speaker of Parliament and …
Parliament on Wednesday passed the controversial Petroleum Revenue Management Bill.
The bill, passed after its third reading, was dragged for months by members of Parliament.
Before its passage, a former Attorney General and Ju…
The International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC) has organised a day’s workshop to validate a research report on “enhancing inter–party dialogue process” in Ghana.…
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Mike Hammah, has advised staff of the Effutu Municipal Assembly to put aside their political sentiments and work as one body towards the development of the area.
He said this would go …
A number of the Ghanaian evacuees from Libya have told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra about their harrowing experiences in the oil-rich North African State hit by political crisis.
27-year-old Sam Mohammed, who was part of the …
A leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has asked Ghanaians to line up behind the Mills Administration as it worked hard to put the nation on the path of real progress and prosperity.
Alhaji Sulemana Gado s…
The second batch of Ghanaians numbering 95, arrived in Accra on Tuesday evening after being evacuated from Libya on board a commercial Egyptian flight.
Mr Chris Kpodo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration who w…
The Member of Parliament for Odododiodioo, Mr. Jonathan Nii Tackie Komme, has commended the President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills for his meeting with his predecessor, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, at the Castle recently.
He noted th…
Dr Raymond Akongboro Atuguba, Executive Secretary of Constitution Review Commission (CRC) on Tuesday said over 80,000 qualitative submissions received by the Commission would provide a comprehensive governance database for the country.
…
Mr Doe Adjaho, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ave-Avenor, has lauded the chiefs and people of the Akatsi District for keeping the peace crucially needed to prosecute the daunting development programmes for the area.
He listed the chal…
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minority Leader, on Tuesday rejected the Majority’s request of an apology for not joining a procession to usher out the President after delivering the state of the nation address in Parliament on February 17.
…
Mr Kwamena Duncan, Central Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), pledged the party’s commitment to remain fair, equitable, firm and transparent with all elected parliamentary aspirants.
He said the party was therefore …
President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday opened a five-day National Constitution Review Conference in Accra, with a call on Ghanaians to re-engineer and reshape the 1992 Constitution to give more leverage to the nation’s constitutional g…
Six people have said they would contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Asante-Akim South Constituency.
They are the sitting Member of Parliament , Mrs Gifty Ohene-Konadu, Mr Alex Kwaku Korankye, former…
The Kwabre West constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stepped up its campaign to win more voters ahead of next year’s general election as it opens offices in all the 15 electoral zones in the constituency.
With this, the p…
Madam Florence Dennis, a Working Group Member of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP), has said there was the need for political parties to publish their accounts as demanded by law.
She said this would enhance transp…
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) would on March 15, inaugurate all the 170 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) except one, to ensure their smooth administration.
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampof…
The new executive of the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) was on Monday sworn into office with a charge to obey the principles guiding the journalism profession.
Mr Ransford Tetteh, President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA),…
An Anti-Corruption Campaigner, Alhaji Osman Moro Fukuyama, has welcomed the directive of President John Evans Atta Mills to the effect that Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) officials should declare their asserts.
He also …
The Sankofa Convention People’s Youth Movement, a pressure group in the Convention People’s Party (CPP), is calling for a debate among the Party’s presidential aspirants before the national delegates’ congress to choose their flag bearer.
…
The African Jurists Association (AJA) on Monday expressed concern about the escalation of violence and the gross violation and abuse of human rights in Libya.
It said at this critical stage, the sovereignty of Libya and the citizenry…
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