The first day of voting in Italy's general elections Sunday was marked by falling turnout, amid uncertainty about who will prevail and signs of mounting support for a radical protest party
whose leader wants a referendum on a eurozone exi…
Conservative candidate Nicos Anastasiades won run-off presidential elections on Sunday in debt-stricken Cyprus, a country whose request for a multibillion-euro international bailout
has renewed concerns about the eurozone crisis.
Anas…
Mr Nelson Bediako Asafo, Convention People's Party (CPP) candidate in the Tuesday parliamentary bye-election in Buem in the Volta Region, has called on the Electoral Commission to ensure that the election is impeccably transparent.
H…
The prelate who in the Vatican was responsible for the scandal-plagued Institute for Religious Works (IOR) is to become an ambassador to Colombia, the Holy See announced on Friday.
Monsignor Ettore Balestrero is a deputy of Secretary of S…
Growing concern over the rise of a new radical protest party that wants to see Italy exit the eurozone dominated the final day of campaigning Friday for general elections.
Political analysts say the Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe…
Ukraine still has reforms to deliver before the European Union can sign a landmark political association and free trade deal with the eastern European country, leaders of the bloc said Friday.
The long-awaited agreement - the first of …
NATO could keep 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan to train and assist the local police and military after the allied combat operation ends in late 2014, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday.
"What we discussed was a range …
Silvio Berlusconi was forced Friday to cancel his final campaign rally because of eye trouble, his office said.
The three-time premier will no longer speak at a party event in Naples, but would instead rally his supporters via video me…
President John Dramani Mahama on Friday called for closer relations between Ghana and Nigeria as both countries have had the same developmental potentials and challenges over the years.
He said Ghana would particularly partner Nigeria,…
Bharpur Singh, a 98-year-old survivor of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, on Friday praised UK Prime Minister David Cameron for describing the incident as "deeply shameful" in British history. "When I heard Cameron's statement I felt go…
Russia has sent a plane loaded with humanitarian aid to Mali on Friday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. "An Il-76 aircraft flew to the Malian capital of Bamako to deliver humanitarian aid with a stop-over at the airport of Tunis," …
Three Ukrainian opposition parties ended their occupation of parliament Friday after it was agreed that lawmakers would be allowed to vote in person and not by identity card.
The protest was started by Ukrainian opposition leader and w…
Slovenia was inching toward a new ruling coalition on Friday, as Prime Minister Janez Jansa's crumbling alliance was left by another partner over corruption allegations.
Foreign and health ministers Karel Erjavec and Tomaz Gantar resigned…
About 20 Japanese lawmakers, including a senior government official, joined a ceremony Friday, commemorating the day the islands at the centre of a dispute with South Korea came under Japan's jurisdiction 108 years ago.
Aiko Shimajiri, a …
Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has called for a boycott of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in April as a means of protesting against the government.
"Boycotting the election is the fastest way to expose fake democ…
The United States should not be "hijacked by Tokyo's right-leaning politicians" over some disputed islands in the East China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency warned in a commentary on Saturday coinciding with a visit to Washington by J…
Tertiary Educational Institution Network (TEIN) of the NDC, University of Education, Winneba (UEW) branch, has commended President John Mahama for nominating Dr Avea Nsoh Ephraim as the Minister designate for the Upper East Region.
Th…
Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party has chosen Interior Minister Ali Laarayedh as its candidate to replace Hamadi Jebali as prime minister, the party said Friday.
Ennahda's vice president Abdelhamid Jelassi confirmed to dpa that Ennahda's l…
Egyptian opposition leaders Friday criticized a decision by President Mohammed Morsi to hold parliamentary elections in April, warning that the polls will deepen political divisions in the country.
"The attempt to hold elections despite t…
Barely six days after seven French nationals were abducted in Cameroon and suspected to have been sent to Nigeria, the West Africa nation's government said it will connect its borders to the satellite to check movement of persons in and ou…
There was wild jubilation at Apam, capital of Gomoa West on Wednesday when the announcement was made that Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe’s has been appointed as a Member of the Council of State.
Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, District Chief Exec…
Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Thursday left Accra for Freetwon, Sierra Leone.
The Vice President is attending the inauguration and swearing-in of the President of Sierra Leone, Mr Ernest Bai Koroma, who was successfully…
The Minority in Parliament on Thursday walked out of the chamber of the House moments before President John Dramani Mahama delivered his maiden State of the Nation Address, drawing mixed reactions from their colleagues from the majority si…
President Mahama has given the assurance that government, in the next four years, would work towards improving access, service quality, increased personnel and enhanced working conditions across the various professions in the health sector…
President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday said he was deeply concern about the very erratic and frustrating electricity supply that millions of Ghanaians and businesses were experiencing.
"It is a situation that I am deeply concerne…
President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday said Ghana's foreign policy of positive neutrality still remains whilst its economic diplomacy hinges on the national interest.
He said Ghana's foreign policy will deliver good neighbourliness, pe…
President John Mahama has pledged Government's readiness not to relent in working to ensure that Ghana continues to exhibit true democratic tendencies on the African continent.
He pledged government's support to all institutions espe…
President John Dramani Mahama said on Thursday government was committed to using tourism as an instrument for the full realization of the economic potential of the culture and creative arts.
He said the newly aligned Ministry of Touri…
The Second Lady, Mrs Matilda Nana Manye Amissah-Arthur has asked the people of Ellembelle to rally behind the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah to administer effectively in his new political endeavour.
Mr…
Dr Ngozi Iweala-Okonjo, Minister for Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Nigeria will deliver the 2nd J.A. Kufuor Foundation Lecture in Accra from Friday February 22, to Saturday February 23 in Accra.
It is part of the…
Government on Wednesday denied an erroneous publication that named Mr Henry Martey Newman, former Chief of Staff as Chairman of the Council of State.
On the contrary, Madam Cecilia Johnson has been elected as Chair of the Council, wh…
Parliament on Wednesday paid glowing tribute to Mr Henry Ford Kamel, late member for Buem in the Volta Region, who passed away last Christmas, describing his demise as a "very great loss" to the country.
The lawmakers praised Kamel,…
President John Dramani Mahama will tomorrow Thursday February 21, deliver his maiden State of the Nation's address to the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth republic with uneasiness that minority may boycott the event.
But the Minority, …
President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday attributed the poor performance in the public service to poor supervision of subordinates at all levels of development.
He said: "I will hold all Ministers responsible, and I expect that you a…
President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday tasked members of the Council of State to be frank in their deliberations and feed him with truthful information to enable him to act swiftly.
He said: "In your deliberations, I expect you to …
Parliament on Tuesday urged stakeholders in the road safety sphere to mount an intensive educational drive on road traffic signs and regulations and the consequences of flouting highway rules to curb the increasing number of fatal accident…
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday announced that government would this year mount an imposing statue of Ghana's first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah at the Kwame Nkrumah's Circle.
He said the statue, similar to the one erected at t…
Bongo Constituency branch of the John Mahama Fan Club, has commended President John Dramani Mahama for nominating Dr. Nsoh Avea Ephraim as Minister designate for the Upper East Region.
This is contained in a statement signed by the …
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources has noted that reforming land administration can only be done under long term programmes, which requires decades of sustained commitment.
He said the Government of the Na…
President John Dramani Mahama, has proposed one Madam Helen Adjoa Ntoso for consideration by Parliament as Volta Regional Minister.
This was contained in a statement signed by Dr Raymond Atuguba, Executive Secretary to the
President …
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said Monday his bid to form a technocratic government had failed.
Jebali said he would turn to President Moncef Marzouki to seek another solution after failing to win the support of the country's m…
Anti-government protesters in Bulgaria clashed late Monday with police after they threw stones at security forces and against the Parliament building in downtown Sofia.
In Sofia, eleven people were detained, police said. Several people…
Members of the Upper East Youth Association have expressed their profound gratitude to President John Dramani Mahama for nominating Dr Ephraim Avea Nsoh as the Minister designate for the Region.
The Association in a release signed …
Nicos Anastasiades, the leader of the conservative Democratic Rally Party (DISY), was ahead with 51.1 per cent in Cyprus' presidential elections, an initial exit poll on Sunday showed.
The polls placed the 66-year-old well ahead of his…
Cyprus' presidential elections will go to a runoff next weekend after conservative Nicos Anastasiades failed to clinch an outright majority in Sunday's first round.
The 66-year-old leader of the Democratic Rally Party (DISY) came out t…
Nicos Anastasiades, the leader of the Democratic Rally Party (DISY), was ahead with 51.1 per cent in Cyprus' presidential elections, an initial exit poll on Sunday showed.
His main contender, former health minister Stavros Malas, who i…
Dr Ephraim Avea Nsoh, Upper East Regional Minister designate, said among his major priorities would be agriculture, education and health.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in interview in Bolgatanga at the weekend, he said one of the…
Ms Esther Aboagye, Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) parliamentary candidate in the 2012 election for Agona East, has called on Ghanaians to stop persecuting and condemning Reverend Isaac Owusu-Bempah for prophesying that President John Dram…
Libya's leader called on Sunday for national unity and warned of chaos in the North African country on the second anniversary of the uprising against Moammer Gaddafi.
Mohammed al-Magariaf, head of the National Congress, called on Libya…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday backed Israel's intelligence services and said the country's security was paramount, in his first reference to the furor surrounding the
"Prisoner X" affair.
The security services should be …