Jordan is ready to receive injured Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israel's intensive military offensives since Saturday, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Jordanian hospitals are fully ready to receive Gaza…
US President-elect Barack Obama and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin seized the top two spots on CNN's list of top political news in 2008, which was released on Wednesday.
From a Junior Senator from Illinois to the ne…
The Guinean military junta's No. 2, Captain Mamadouba Toto Camara paid a brief visit to Bissau, the capital of neighbouring Guinea-Bissau, where he was received by President Joao Bernardo Vieira, information monitored in Dakar said on Wedn…
The year 2008 witnessed a significant rise of Poland's international position, which could be seen as a success of the Polish Government, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
"2008 was certainly the year of positive c…
Bangladeshi Prime Minister hopeful Sheikh Hasina said she would form government in the first week of January after her party's landslide victory in the 9th Parliament election held on Monday.
After an hour long meeting with President…
The Volta Region Branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday said New Patriotic Party (NPP) Agents were not molested and that was they signed all the statements of results in the Region.
A statement Mr Francis Ganya…
An Accra Fast Track High Court presided over by
Mr Justice Edward Amoako Asante, on Thursday refused to grant a request by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop the declaration of the result of the presidential election.
The New Pa…
Members of National Democratic Congress (NDC) have invaded Tain District, moving from house to house to solicit the electorate for votes for their Presidential Candidate, Professor John Evans Atta Mills in Friday's Presidential Election Ru…
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday called for an immediate stop of the ongoing Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip that have killed some 369 Palestinians since Saturday.
President Mubarak made his call in a televised speec…
Tortured and struggling in daily violence after more than five years following the US-led invasion, Iraqis are yearning for security and social stability as the war-torn state is filled with deadly violence and sectarian strife that seem t…
Chairperson of the Commission for African Union (AU), Jean Ping, on Tuesday strongly condemned Saturday's attacks on the joint United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), describing it as a "cowardly and deliberate" act.
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Chairperson of the Commission for African Union (AU) Jean Ping on Tuesday urged the Somali stakeholders and in particular, the Transitional Federal Parliament, to take all necessary steps for the early appointment of a new president.
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Israeli warplanes on Tuesday evening carried out several air strikes against different targets in the Gaza Strip.
The latest two air strikes were against the compound of Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' of…
A new Belgian Government was sworn in on Tuesday with Flemish Christian Democrat Herman van Rompuy as the Prime Minister.
Members of the new government, including 14 Ministers and seven state secretaries, took their oath before Belgi…
The United States on Tuesday reiterated its call for a "durable and sustainable" ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants ruling the Gaza Strip.
"The ceasefire, in order to be productive, has to be maintained, "State Department S…
US President George W. Bush discussed by telephone with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Gaza crisis on Tuesday, the White House said.
"President Bush and the two Palestinian leaders discussed th…
The 29th annual summit of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) wrapped up in the Omani capital of Muscat late Tuesday, with six Gulf leaders approving the monetary union accord.
The accord still awaits for ratification of the member states…
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev would pay an official visit to Egypt between January 17 and 20 at the invitation of his counterpart Ahmed Nazif, local BTA reported on Tuesday.
According to an announcement of the Government …
The Syrian people on Tuesday continued to stage mass demonstrations in various provinces for the third day to condemn Israel's "heinous aggression" on the Gaza Strip and show solidarity with the Palestinians.
According to the officia…
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Tuesday denied a report that the Israeli defence establishment would recommend a 48-hour truce with Hamas.
"The report is not true. Our plan is to continue the Gaza operation," an IDF Spokeswoman told X…
Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Hosseini announced that his country was ready to grant scholarship to the Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tues…
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has invited his counterparts from other European countries to meet in Paris on Tuesday to discuss how to promote a truce for the escalating conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islami…
The summit of Sanaa Gathering called on the UN Security Council on Tuesday to intervene immediately to stop the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip.
Leaders of the Sanaa Gathering, which includes Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, …
As both a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the most prominent developing country in the world, China is well placed to help build a stable, prosperous and peaceful world, a US expert on international politics has said.
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The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned an attack against Egypt's consulate in the Yemeni city of Aden, the state MENA news agency reported.
Egypt is "displeased with the attempt to break into its consulate" in Aden, Egypt…
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday said the mobilization of naval fleets in the Somali coast would complicate the situation in Somalia and the region as a whole.
"The mobilization of fleets would not solve the problem.... I…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad underlined the necessity on Tuesday to halt the Israeli "massacres " of unarmed Palestinian people, the official SANA news agency reported.
President Assad made the remarks while meeting visiting US R…
The European Union Election Observation Mission Ghana is to deploy 26 observers to the Tain constituency in Brong-Ahafo Region to observe voting on January 2, 2009.
This was contained in a statement issued in Accra by Mathias Eick, Press…
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Wednesday commended the Electoral Commission for the matured manner in which it has handled the results of the December 28 Presidential Election Runoff.
"The matured manner in which the results were an…
There was spontaneous jubilation by supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Koforidua moments after Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), announced the result that put their candidate ahead in the…
Mr John Mahama, Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress, on Wednesday
appealed to the people of Tain to remain calm and not be intimated by the presence of political parties and security personnel in the constitue…
Ho and Aflao townships came alive with spontaneous but short-lived jubilations following the announcement of the results of the Presidential Election Runoff on Wednesday, which failed to produce a winner.
The results saw Professor J…
Patients on hospital admission have appealed to the Electoral Commission (EC) to devise mechanisms in the future to enable such people to also exercise their franchise in selecting political leaders.
A total of 128 in-patients on adm…
Supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Wa Municipality on Tuesday night went on a spontaneous jubilation through some of the principal streets in Wa immediately after Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral
C…
Voters in the Western Region reduced their rejected Ballot papers in the December 7 election from 25,953 to 9,038 in the just ended Presidential Election Runoff in all the 2,240 constituencies in the Region.
By this reduction, 16,915…
Northern Patriot in Research and Advocacay (NORPRA), a Civic Organization working to promote social justice and equity, has stressed the need for the winner in the presidential run-of election to honour the pledge to bridge the gap between…
The Ghana Armed Forces on Monday denied that the Military High Command had sent troops to Denu in the Volta Region to collect ballot boxes or swap them.
A statement signed by Colonel E.W.K Nibo, Director, Public Relations explained that …
Mr Modestus Ahiable, Volta Regional Chairman of National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday urged supporters and sympathisers of the Party to be sober and reflective as victory beckoned it in the Presidential Election Run-off.
He ad…
Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said there would be no room for vendetta in his administration, when he is declared winner
of Sunday's presidential runoff.
"As …
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started humanitarian and relief operations to save Palestinians in the Gaza Strip suffering from Israeli military strikes, local Emirates News Agency reported on Monday.
The UAE Red Crescent Authori…
The ECOWAS Observer Mission has urged all political parties and candidates to accept the verdict of the people as would be declared by the Electoral Commission in the interest of peace and stability.
Speaking at a press briefing on t…
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) on Monday announced a 16.2 per cent increase in pensions across board and an additional flat amount of GH 4.93 cedis for every SSNIT pensioner.
A statement signed by Mr Kwaku Osei…
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with visiting Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on the situation of Gaza Strip on Sunday morning.
The visit of Abbas, who arrived here early on Sunday, came one da…
Foreign ministers of the six Gulf Arab states will meet in Muscat on Sunday to discuss Israel's attack on Gaza which has so far claimed at least 271 Palestinian people.
The ministers are supposed to work out the agenda of the 29th su…
The Australian government Sunday urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a new truce and end the violence in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes destroyed Hamas targets including a mosque and a TV station on Saturday, killing at least 230 P…
Palestinian and Egyptian UN Ambassadors said at the United Nations on Monday that they asked the UN Security Council to bring Israel into compliance with the world call to put an immediate end to the violence and military actions in Gaza.
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The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has rejected the two-year transition period set by military coupists in Guinea after they took over the government after the death of President Lansana Conte last week.
In alterna…
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak vowed on Monday evening that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) would use every resource to put an end to rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, local daily Ha'aretz reported.
"If the crimina…
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman expressed on Monday his support for an urgent Arab summit as soon as possible to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Suleiman voiced the stance in a meeting with a Palestinian delegation of rep…
Albanian Parliament adopted a new electoral law amendment on Monday after President Bamir Topi had refused to sign the original.
The original was passed in the 140-seat Parliament in November, which called for the President to announ…