The annual St Patrick's Day Parade in Washington DC has been cancelled for 2019, with the organisers citing high security costs.
The St Patrick's Parade Committee of Washington DC said it was "distraught" to announce the cancellation.
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German far-right politician Frank Magnitz has been beaten up and severely injured in an attack seen by police as politically motivated.
The leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Bremen was attacked by at least three masked men in t…
Delegates of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper West Region, have pledged to reward Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin with a flood of votes during the NDC’s upcoming Presidential primary.
They promised to vote…
Constituency officers, delegates and Regional executives of the New Patriotic Party, (NPP) have been advised to continue to hold firm to the virtues of the party or sink it at their own peril.
Mr Freddie Blay, the National Chairman of t…
The leadership of the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly (EKMA) has organised a demolition exercise on containers and other illegal structures around the kwesimintsim car station area to open up the place for more registered business a…
The Canadian government is treating the disappearance of a woman from Quebec and her Italian friend in Burkina Faso as a kidnapping, media reports say.
Edith Blais, 34, and Luca Tacchetto, 30, were last heard from on 15 December in the …
Government’s decision to institute January 7 as a Constitution Day worthy of a holiday, has been hailed as a justified commemoration of Ghana’s most enduring republican dispensation.
However, Keynote speaker at the maiden lecture, Pro…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Beijing for an unannounced visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Mr Kim will be in China until 10 January with his wife Ri Sol-ju, according to state media reports.
T…
The yield of many staple crops could be boosted by 40 percent by a new process that adjusts the way they turn sunlight into energy, potentially feeding hundreds of millions of more people, American researchers said on Thursday.
Crops su…
Sudan's government has announced an increase in civil servants' salaries.
At least 19 people have been killed since the demonstrations began in mid-December against sharp price increases.
In a speech today, President Omar al-Bashir m…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday said if ever Representation of the People’s Amendment Act (ROPAA) would be implemented, it should be on an “everywhere or nowhere” principle.
According to the Party, so far as it was co…
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister, has declared the year 2019 as one for the rapid socioeconomic development of the Volta Region.
He said government would deliver promises made to the region in the year and called for supp…
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s bid to push her Brexit plans through parliament was dealt another blow on Friday when a survey showed most of her own party’s members oppose the agreement and would prefer to leave the EU without a deal…
Zimbabwe's government has advertised for more than 200 vacancies to replace junior doctors who went on strike at the beginning of December, reports the state-owned newspaper the Herald.
The doctors say there are many areas of concern, i…
Ms. Francisca Oteng Mensah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre East, is funding the rehabilitation of streets linking the sprawling peri-urban communities in the constituency, to the main roads.
Speaking to newsmen after inspectin…
The UN Security Council will hold a closed door meeting later today on the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Roman Catholic Church, which fielded thousands of election observers across the country, said that…
Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have had personal details hacked and published online.
Contacts, private chats and financial details were put out on Twitter which belong to figures from every politica…
The Paramount Chief of the Daffiama Traditional Area, Naa Dikomwine Domalae, has asked politicians to be tolerant, circumspect and decent in their political communications to promote peace, unity and development.
Some politicians engage…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked officers of the Research Department of the Foreign Affairs Ministry to be mindful of new threats to global security and their duty to remain professional.
Addressing a special durbar held …
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Catholic church said on Thursday it was clear which candidate won the country’s presidential election, and demanded that the electoral commission publish accurate results.
The church, one of Congo’s most t…
The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has voted to end a partial government shutdown, but the move looks certain to be vetoed by President Donald Trump.
Mr Trump has said he will reject any measure that does not provide …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded an immediate independent inquiry on the conduct of the just-ended referenda to restore confidence in the country’s electoral process.
According to the Party, they were alarmed at the b…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is "deeply concerned" about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia.
At a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque, Mr Pompeo said the two countries w…
The Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on all the flag bearer aspirants to engage the youth of the party in their plans and policies in order to achieve the target of capturing power in the 2020 general electio…
The trial of 11 individuals over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has begun in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, state media report.
Prosecutors have asked for the death penalty for five of the defendants.
Khashoggi, a promine…
A helicopter being used to fight against Boko Haram has crashed in north-eastern Nigeria, the country's air force says.
It happened on Wednesday evening. The cause of the crash is not yet known, but a spokesman says the aircraft was sup…
The Ministry of Information, Wednesday, announced that the Government would on Monday, January 7, 2019, hold the maiden Constitution Day Public Lecture.
The Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sent a message of condolence to Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari, on the death of Nigeria's former head of state, Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari.
Mr Shagari, a Nigerian politician who served as the f…
Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, a Presidential aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has expressed optimism that his message and persuasion would convince delegates to elect him to lead the party in the election 2020.
From his inte…
Mr. Daniel Kwaku Botwe, the Minister of Regional Reorganization and Development, says adequate ground work has been done to ensure that the six new regions – Oti, Bono East, Ahafo, Western North, Savannah and North East get off to a smooth…
The electoral commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says initial results from the country's presidential election could be delayed beyond Sunday's deadline.
The commission's president, Corneille Nangaa, said counting centres we…
China says it has successfully landed a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, the first ever such attempt and landing.
At 10:26 Beijing time (02:26 GMT), the un-crewed Chang'e-4 probe touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basi…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has inaugurated three committees ahead of its flag bearer election on January 26, 2019.
The three committees are the Vetting, Appeals and Electoral committees.
The flag bearer election, which is…
An 11-month-old boy rescued from the ruins of a collapsed apartment block in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk is said to be conscious but in an "extremely serious" condition.
The country's health ministry says he has severe frostbite to…
Democratic Republic of Congo’s government cut internet connections and SMS services across the country for a second straight day on Tuesday as the country nervously awaited results from the weekend’s chaotic presidential election.
Both …
The EU has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore Internet access, which operators say was cut on government orders.
The internet has been blocked since Monday, the day after the presidential election.
The joint statem…
Two Indian women have made history by entering a prominent Hindu shrine in the southern state of Kerala, following months of protests against their entry.
The Sabarimala temple was historically closed to women of "menstruating age" - de…
Supporters of Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin in his Flagbearership bid are refusing to be reconciliatory in spite of the calls for unity in the party in the build-up to the 2020 election.
According to them, the call for unity in the p…
The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), a civil society organisations, has lauded Ghanaians for the successful and peaceful conduct of the December 27 referendum on the creation of six new regions.
The six propos…
Mr. Stephen Kwame Quaye, District Chief Executive for Awutu Senya District has called for all hands on deck for the development of the area.
Mr Quaye who made the call at his sessional address at the third ordinary meeting of the third …
International collaboration remains the best hope to combat issues like climate change and political division, which are getting harder to solve, the United Nations’ Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his New Year message.
He po…
A foreign ministry statement accused Nicholas Haysom of breaching the appropriate conduct of the UN in Somalia.
On Sunday, Mr Haysom wrote to Somalia's security minister expressing his concern at the arrest, in early December, of Mukhta…
The former Republican US presidential candidate and incoming senator for Utah Mitt Romney has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump, saying he has caused dismay around the world.
Writing in the Washington Post, he said Mr Trump had…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings, has, once again cautioned against corruption and indiscipline in the Ghanaian society, saying they constitute “a plague that we should take very seriously if we are to achieve true development in our c…
Protesters have taken to one of Cape Town's most picturesque beaches after private security guards were accused of ordering black visitors to leave.
The guards, hired by local residents, allegedly cleared the Clifton 4th beach of touris…
In 2019 Germany will assume greater international responsibility and must stand up for its convictions, Angela Merkel has vowed in an annual address.
The chancellor said old certainties about international cooperation had "come under pr…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has selected Delali Kwasi Brempong to represent the party in the upcoming by-election for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra.
Delali Kwasi Brempong is the same candidate who…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Addo-Addo on Saturday congratulated the people in the soon to be created regions in Ghana for the courtly manner they exercised their franchise and constitutional right last Thursday.
"The will of the people d…
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, has formally announced that he will seek re-election in 2020 to continue to represent the people of the area in the country’s legislature.
He said “I ch…
Nana Opraw Akuamoah VIII, Nifahene of Buem Traditional Area in the yet to be inaugurated Oti region has stated the desire of people in the newly created region to work with their neighbours in the south to develop both regions.
At a pos…
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