The British government will increase funding of the BBC World Service over the next three years, the foreign secretary is to announce on Thursday. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will boost funding by an additional £11m per year for the next three years – a total of £33m and an 8% increase on the previous […]
Ghana has signed a visa waiver agreement with Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation, for diplomatic and service passport holders in a historic bilateral engagement. The visa waiver agreement is expected to be further escalated to ordinary passport holders in the near future, as the two nations have established, for the first time, a diplomatic engagement. […]
The US has authorised countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum that is currently loaded on vessels at sea in an attempt to curb the economic impact of the US-Israel war with Iran. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was a temporary measure to “promote stability in global energy markets” during the war. […]
A bipartisan resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war in Iran has failed in the US Senate, as the strikes continue. The war powers measure was rejected in a 53-47 vote largely along party lines. It would have halted US military action in Iran without congressional approval. Democrats argue that Trump […]
Ghana and St Kitts and Nevis have signed a visa exemption agreement covering holders of ordinary passports, marking a significant expansion of travel access between the two countries. The new arrangement replaces an earlier 2018 agreement that applied only to holders of diplomatic and service passports. The agreement was signed at the Jubilee House in […]
Clergy from a conservative grouping of the Anglican Church are meeting this week in Nigeria’s capital Abuja to choose a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. The UK’s Sarah Mullally will officially be installed as the leader of the world’s Anglican communion at a lavish ceremony later this month, but her appointment has […]
A limited number of flights have been able to leave the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as departures across the Middle East continue to be disrupted by the joint Israeli and US war on Iran. More than 4,000 flights a day have been cancelled across the region, according to flight tracking service Flightradar24, with hundreds of thousands […]
The U.S. is blocking the Venezuelan government from paying for Nicolas Maduro‘s legal representation in the drug trafficking case he faces in New York, the deposed Venezuelan president’s defence lawyer said on Wednesday. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, both pleaded not guilty on January 5 to drug trafficking charges that could land them in a U.S. prison […]
Ghana has issued a travel advisory urging its citizens in Mexico to exercise extreme caution following deadly security operations and retaliatory violence linked to one of the country’s most powerful criminal networks. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the advisory was prompted by “the unfolding situation in Mexico” after an operation by […]
When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested at about 08:00 on Thursday, it had nothing to do with Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused him of sexual abuse. What led to him being arrested started with information that came out in the massive Epstein file release in January, around activities while he was a trade envoy for […]
Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Instagram-owner Meta Platforms, appeared in a California court on Wednesday defending his leadership of the company in a landmark legal case over whether social media is addictive for children. It is Zuckerberg’s first appearance before a jury after years of backlash against Meta, which also owns WhatsApp and Facebook, which […]
The US House of Representatives has voted to rescind US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods. In a 219-211 vote, six Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to back a resolution seeking to end the tariffs Trump imposed on Canada last year. The vote is largely symbolic as it will still need to be approved by […]
