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Veteran Israeli hawk Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on the cusp of returning to power Wednesday, with initial election results showing his alliance with the extreme right taking a narrow lead. With around 87 percent of the vote counted, according to the Central Elections Committee, initial results put Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc ahead after the country’s fifth election […]

The Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations in New York, Amb. Harold Agyeman said the Council’s events in November will build on the “clear African focus” towards addressing threats against peace and security. He said the first of the two signature events for the month will be an open debate taking place on […]

Out of power for a matter of months, comeback king Boris Johnson is once again being touted as the new leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain’s prime minister. The man who was forced to quit as prime minister in July, brought down by some of the very lawmakers he now hopes will rally […]

Liz Truss is set to become the shortest-serving prime minister in Britain’s history, after the public, MPs and the markets comprehensively rejected the self-styled heir to Margaret Thatcher. Truss succeeded Boris Johnson by selling to the Conservative rank-and-file a plan to turbo-charge economic growth through tax cuts, via increased borrowing. She accused her rival in […]

The London stock market and the pound bounced on Thursday after British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation following disastrous policies that rocked the markets for weeks. The pound traded around 0.4 percent higher against the dollar to $1.1273 after Truss ended six tumultuous weeks in power — but analysts said gains were pared […]

US President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to continue close cooperation with Britain following the resignation of Liz Truss, whose six-week premiership was marred by political and economic chaos.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday dramatically announced her resignation just six weeks after taking office. Truss bowed to the inevitable after her right-wing platform of tax cuts disintegrated and as many MPs among the ruling Conservatives revolted. Speaking in Downing Street, Truss said she would stay on as prime minister until a successor […]

French cement manufacturer, Lafarge pleaded guilty in the Brooklyn federal court, the United States court on Tuesday to a charge that it made payments to a terrorist group, Islamic State to keep the company operational in Syria. The admission marked the first time a company has pleaded guilty in the US to charges of providing […]

Traders in Ghana’s capital Accra closed their stores and businesses on Wednesday in a three-day protest over soaring costs of living as the West African country battles economic fallout from the Ukraine war. Daily gridlock in Accra’s Central Business District and in the biggest vehicle spare parts district was largely absent, with only street food […]

A group of Afghan women marched the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital on Tuesday to demand the right to education following the expulsion of female students from the Kabul University dormitory. According to media reports, the few dozen of women were carrying signs reading: “Education is our red line” and rending chants that the world […]