FOREIGN NEWS

A special panel tasked with establishing whether South African President Cyril Ramaphosa should face impeachment for allegedly covering up a crime submitted its findings to parliament on Wednesday. The three-person team, led by an ex-chief justice, handed its report to National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula at a televised ceremony in Cape Town. “The handover of […]

Twitter owner Elon Musk on Monday opened fire against Apple over its tight control of what is allowed on the App Store, saying the iPhone maker has threatened to oust his recently acquired social media platform. Musk also joined the chorus crying foul over a 30 percent fee Apple collects on transactions via its App […]

A court in the Comoros on Monday handed down a life sentence for high treason to ex-president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, who was convicted of selling passports to stateless people living in the Gulf. Sambi, 64, an arch rival of President Azali Assoumani, was sentenced by the State Security Court, a special judicial body whose rulings […]

Secondary and primary schools in Scotland are shut as tens of thousands of teachers are staging a one-day walkout on Thursday following the rejection of their new pay demands. The protest will have all members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) in action as they reiterated their demand for a 10% pay rise. According […]

In honour of this year’s Bezos Day One Fund, American entrepreneur and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is giving $123 million to groups assisting homeless families with permanent shelter. Bezos in an Instagram video Tuesday revealed that over the past five years, he has awarded more than $500 million to 167 organizations. Launched in 2018, […]

The Ghanaian Authority has withdrawn its earlier travel advisory issued on Nov. 16, warning its citizens against nonessential travels to Abuja, Nigeria over alleged security threat, stating that the earlier publication was unauthorized. The Ghanaian High Commission in Abuja made this known in an updated Travel Advisory on Thursday, regretting all inconveniences the earlier advisory […]

President Joe Biden responded Wednesday to Donald Trump’s announcement of another run for the White House by saying the Republican “failed” his country while in office. “Donald Trump failed America,” Biden said in a tweet from Bali, where he was attending the last day of the G20 summit. Later, while participating in a ceremonial mangrove […]

British inflation has jumped to a 41-year high on soaring energy and food bills in a worsening cost-of-living crisis, data showed Wednesday on the eve of a key budget. The Consumer Prices Index hit 11.1 percent in October, reaching the highest level since 1981, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. That […]

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will receive an official mandate Sunday to form a government that could be the most right-wing in the country’s history, sparking concern at home and abroad. After a period of unprecedented political gridlock that forced five elections in less than four years, polls on November 1 gave the veteran […]

South Korea on Friday denied a report that it would sell artillery shells for use by Ukrainian forces, claiming the munitions — if the ongoing deal negotiation is finalised — will be for US forces only. The United States was nearing an agreement to purchase 100,000 rounds of 155 mm artillery from Seoul which would […]