After three months in office, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is close to bringing to an end one of the most controversial episodes of its early days in power when Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama looks to give details of a concrete propo…
The following are the highlights of Chinese President Hu Jintao's tour to Turkmenistan where he met with his Turkmen and Uzbek counterparts and is scheduled to attend an inauguration ceremony for part of the China-Central Asia gas pipeline…
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister led a Ghanaian delegation to Po in Burkina Faso, to celebrate the country's 49th Independence Day celebration.
The celebration took place at the Central-Southern Region of Burkina Faso o…
President John Evans Atta Mills leaves Accra on Tuesday for Copenhagen, Denmark, to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
President Mills will deliver a speech during the plenary session on December 16 and 17, accordin…
Mr. Felix Kwasi Owusu-Adjapong, an aspirant
vying for the National Chairmanship of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), has said there was
the need for all members of the party to unite to enable the party wrestle power from the National Dem…
Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, who is contesting the
National Chairmanship of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is to undertake a nation-wide tour to visit
newly elected executive committees in all the 230 constituencies in the country.
…
Dr. Nii Oakley Quaye-Kumah, Deputy Minister of Health designate on Tuesday told Parliament that if he gets the nod, he would tour the country to acquaint himself with the health challenges of the people.
" In that case, I would be in …
Na Abdulai Adam, chief of Dalimbila, a farming community within the Tamale Metropolis, has appealed for the provision of social amenities and educational infrastructure in his area.
He said school children in the community lacked furn…
The Administrative Officer of the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Rexford Godwin Ansah-Appiah, has announced his bid for the position of Deputy Regional Secretary of the party.
Speaking to t…
A group of supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) assaulted journalists covering the awards ceremony of Brong Ahafo @ 50 anniversary celebration in Sunyani.
The occasion was attended by the former President, Flt Lt Jerr…
The former President, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings on Saturday called on Ghanaians to support President John Evans Atta Mills to succeed because he has great intentions for Ghana.
Speaking in Sunyani at a ceremony to mark the awards …
The National Chairman of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Peter Mac-Manu has observed that the world would hold President John Atta Mills responsible to ensure peaceful elections in 2012.
He said the "nasty" by-elect…
Ghana and Togo would strengthen bilateral relations and co-operation in areas of mutual interest, following fruitful deliberations between the two countries at the just ended 3rd Session of the Ghana-Togo Permanent Joint Commission for Co-…
The ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff ended their three-day meeting on Friday, December 11, in Freetown, Sierra Leone with the approval of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) Brigade Structure and composition.
The approval, among other things…
A founding Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Central Region, Mr Kofi Mintah, has appealed to the youth to rally behind the party for a better future.
He said it was only the NDC that had initiated policies to en…
The Executive Committee of the West Mamprusi District Assembly has directed the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) to distribute all Ghana @ 50 paraphernalia still locked up in the assembly's store room to people.
Mr. …
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Monday departed Australia on a mission to negotiate a free trade agreement between Australia and the Republic of Korea.
Smith is on his second visit to Seoul since he was appointed foreign minister i…
Leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are to meet Monday afternoon in Kuwait City for their 30th summit, with economic integration and regional hot-spot issues looming high on their agenda.
The following is an intr…
The Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday the national government is to work with the Victorian government to continue to strengthens sister province relationship
with China's Jiangsu Province.
After meeting…
Chinese President Hu Jintao, together with leaders of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, attended an inauguration ceremony for the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline on Monday in a gas plant near the Turkmen-Uzbek border.
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Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama reaffirmed his position on Monday that the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will soon come to a decision on what to do about the relocation of U.S. troops based in Okinawa, amid calls from the United St…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party rejected on Monday an initiative proposed by deposed premier of Hamas in Gaza Ismail Haneya over forming a large national unity government.
In a rally organized by Hamas in Gaza to mar…
The former President, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings arrived in Morocco on Monday, December 14, to participate in the Africities Summit taking place in the historical Moroccan market city of Marrakech.
A statement issued in Ac…
U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration on Monday urged Sudanese political parties to engage in further negotiations to reach peaceful solutions for the country's current political issues.
"We encourage people from all part…
Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Monday and they discussed ways to further develop the strategic mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries.
Xi arrived in Japa…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iran Monday to free three detained Americans, saying
allegations against them are unfounded.
Clinton said Iranian charges against the three are "totally unfounded," saying they were "ou…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor arrived back
home Monday night after a 10-day working visit to Switzerland and Italy.
A statement signed by his Spokesperson, Mr Frank Agyekum, said while in Geneva former President Kufuor forma…
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and Secretary of
Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili slammed on Monday the blockade on the Gaza Strip as "economic genocide", local satellite Press TV reported.
The "continuation of the sei…
UN peacekeepers were sent on Monday to protect a camp of refugees from Sudan's Darfur region in the northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR) and humanitarian staff working there, UN officials said here.
The United Nations took…
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday pressed executives of top U.S. banks to make more loans to small business and accept the necessity of greater regulation.
"Our nation's banks play and have always played a crucial role in our nat…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Monday called for more efforts to push Middle East peace process back on track.
Ban told a monthly press conference at the UN headquarters in New York that the bsituation in Gaza, particularly the hu…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said here Monday that he is "deeply concerned" about the failing health of a Saharawi independence activist who went on hunger strike last month after Morocco denied her entry into her native Western Sahar…
Zimbabwe's Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said on Monday Zimbabwe will not allow outsiders to set conditions for the country to re-engage with the world.
Speaking after a meeting with new American ambassador to Zimbabwe Charl…
India is mulling to introduce tighter and stricter
rules for all foreigners traveling to this country in the wake of recent revelations about the arrested Pakistani-origin U.S. citizen David Coleman Headley's undetected visit with fake
t…
Romania's Social Democrats' leader Mircea
Geoana said on Monday evening that he accepts the Constitutional Court ruling which confirmed the re-election of incumbent President Traian Basescu.
Geoana made the statement soon after the …
Chile's presidential candidate billionaire Sebastian Pinera led by a large margin in the presidential election on Sunday and will enter a run-off with his rival former President Eduardo Frei, according to the latest official results on Mon…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his visting
Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak expressed Monday here their grave concern about the
Middle East peace process and hoped to relaunch Palestine-Israel peace talks soon.
Sarkozy and …
A 34 year-old Quantity Surveyor, Mr. Isaac Atasige has declared his intention to contest as the Upper East Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Bolgatanga, th…
The UK-based Global Race Equality Foundation, has congratulated US President Barack Obama for winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize, during the 61st anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The foundation, which also dou…
Chinese President Hu Jintao flew into Ashgabat,
capital of Turkmenistan, Sunday for a working visit to the central Asian state.
In Ashgabat, the Chinese president will meet his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov to excha…
Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli on Friday signed into law a decree to withdraw from the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).
The Panamanian government said the decision was made in accordance with the will of the
people w…
The Turkmenistan-China relationship benefited
the two peoples and was a priceless treasure that should be cherished and extended generation after generation, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said in a recent interview with Chi…
The 12th ministerial meeting of the seven-country
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
ended in Myanmar's new capital of Nay Pyi Taw Friday evening with the signing of the convention on…
The Sudanese ruling National Congress Party(NCP) and the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) agreed on a bill of referendum for southern Sudan, paving the way for the referendum scheduled for January 2011 to decide wheth…
Iraqi top security officials began to answer
questions by lawmakers about the latest security failures that allowed the massive deadly bombings during the past few months, an official newspaper reported Sunday.
The state-run al-Saba…
Chile's general elections kicked off on Sunday
morning to choose a new president. Following is a brief introduction to three leading presidential candidates.
-- Sebastian Pinera Echenique, candidate for the Coalition for Change, gai…
The first-round of the presidential elections
kicked off on Sunday in Chile amid tight security.
More than 8 million Chileans are expected to cast votes at 34,000 polling stations across the country. The polling is scheduled to last…
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
arrived here on Sunday afternoon to meet a Thai engineer who was convicted to seven years in jail by a Cambodian court for stealing information and passing it onto his government.
Thaksi…
Chile will hold presidential and congressional
elections on Sunday. The following are some key facts about the South American country in the run-up to its fifth voting since the end of the 1973-90 military regime of Augusto Pinochet.
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A group of tribal armed men has agreed to free more than 40 civilians they detained at a hilly hide-out in the southern Philippines, ending the 4-day hostage crisis peacefully, government
officials said Sunday.
Santiago Cane, a vic…