ISTANBUL (AP) — The Under-20 World Cup kicks off Friday in Turkey with FIFA promising the tournament will go off without a hitch despite sometimes violent, anti-government protests that have gripped Istanbul and other Turkish cities in recent weeks.
Jim Boyce, chairman of the tournament organizing committee, acknowledged that security has been beefed up f…
BERLIN (AP) — Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called “the global threat of our time.”
In a wide-ranging speech that enumerated a litany of challenges facing the world, Obama said he wanted to r…
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Gyula Horn, a former Hungarian prime minister who played a key role in opening the Iron Curtain, has died at the age of 80.
Horn’s death on Wednesday was announced by the Hungarian government and confirmed by the Socialist Party, which he led to victory in the 1994 elections. Horn had been hospitalized in Budapest for several year…
BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama should have felt right at home in his overnight visit to Germany, with summer weather that felt more like Washington than Berlin.
Average highs are normally in the 70s in Germany’s capital city in June, but they were in the 90s Tuesday as Obama spoke at the historic Brandenburg Gate nearly 50 years after President John…
[Ghanaian Chronicle]FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has formally recognized 38 countries including Ghana for reducing hunger by half well ahead of international targets for the year 2015.
[The Star]THE high cost of jet fuel in Africa compared to other regions due to distribution inefficiencies and infrastructure constraints has held back the development of budget airlines and fare reduction, an aviation conference was told on Monday.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -THE KUMASI Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has allocated GH¢200,000.00 to support the reconstruction of burnt down stalls at the Kumasi Central market following last Sunday’s fire outbreak. The Metro Chief Executive, Mr. Kojo Bonsu said at a media briefing on Monday that in the circumstance the KMA had permitted victims of the fire disaster to build temporary structures in order that market activities are not stalled at the expense of their livelihood.
[The Point]The National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) is organizing a five-day sensitization programme on human rights for schoolchildren.
[Heritage]MONROVIA: An infantry platoon-size unit of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) departs the country on tomorrow, Thursday, June 20, to join the Africa International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA).
[Heritage]Liberia’s fight against rape has got huge visibility in recent times, but there has been little improvement in bringing alleged perpetrators of the rising number of rape cases to justice, according to the Gender and Development Ministry.
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