Ghana’s former president, John Mahama, won last month’s elections by a landslide, but he will be under enormous pressure to meet the expectations of voters as he assumed office yesterday. After more than three years of economic misery, Ghanaians want…
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At least 53 people have been confirmed dead and 62 are injured after a major earthquake struck the mountainous Tibet region on Tuesday morning, Chinese state media reported. The earthquake that hit Tibet’s holy Shigatse city had a magnitude of…
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All African passport holders are now able to visit Ghana without needing a visa, outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. He announced the plan last month but in his final state-of-the-nation address on Friday he said that the policy had…
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Rebel forces backed by Rwanda have captured the town of Masisi in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to various reports. This is the second town seized by the M23 group in as many days in…
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A JAPANESE woman recognised as the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records (GWR) has died aged 116.Tomiko Itooka died last Sunday in a nursing home in the city of Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, according to officials.She became the oldest person…
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a cartoon satirical of its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos. Ann Telnaes, a long-time Washington Post cartoonist, created a cartoon of Bezos and other tycoons…
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Americans have been gathering to remember Jimmy Carter as a nearly week-long state funeral gets under way for the 39th United States president. Saturday’s procession from Carter’s home in Plains, Georgia, to Atlanta marked the beginning of the six-day public…
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A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case – less than two weeks before he will be sworn in as president.New York justice Juan Merchan signalled that he would not sentence…
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A drunken police officer in Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody so that they could go and celebrate the new year, officials say.Detective inspector Titus Phiri was arrested after releasing the suspects from the Leonard Cheelo Police Station in the…
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Former United States president Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. This was confirmed by the centre he founded. The former peanut farmer lived longer than any president in history and celebrated his 100th birthday in October. The Carter Centre, which…
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WRITTEN BY: SOUTIK BISWAS Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92. He died at a hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. Singh was one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers. He was considered the architect…
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A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip. They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists…
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