President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has relieved his Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko of his post with immediate effect. Akufo-Addo ordered Agyarko to hand over to John Peter Amewu, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, who would act temporarily. Although no reason was given for the
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The U.N. children’s agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida. UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore said Wednesday that the airstrikes earlier this week damaged a sanitation facility and a station that supplies most of the city’s water. […]
The United States said it would be resuming field operations to search for estimated 5,300 Americans who are yet to return home from North Korea. The US said it would also recommence the repatriation of remains of Americans who were killed in the Korean War. The US Department of Defense, in a statement, said the […]
An English court has cleared the way to consider whether it will allow the families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. to make a claim on Iranian assets in Britain. The relatives want the English High Court to enforce a 2012 decision by a U.S. court which […]
A Turkish educator in Mongolia was briefly abducted on Friday, in what appeared to be the latest episode of a global campaign by Turkey’s president to capture suspected allies of the exiled cleric accused of plotting a 2016 coup attempt. The educator, Veysel Akcay, runs a network of international schools that has been associated with […]
Security personnel pounced on a crowd of civic society group members belonging to the Turkey Solidarity Network (TSN) who were picketing outside the Turkish Embassy in Pretoria ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the mission. “We were very peaceful, yet firmly picketing about Erdogan’s dictatorial rule. Suddenly, security personnel emerged from the embassy
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