United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has asked Ghana to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of children, Child prostitution and Pornography. Ms Anne Clair-Dufay, the UNICEF Country Representative to Ghana, said ... Read More

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Thursday, 11th November 2021, to lead the Ghanaian delegation to attend, at the invitation of UNESCO’s Director General, Audrey Azoulay, the 75th anniversary ceremony of the founding of ... Read More

Thousands of revelers celebrate the start of the carnival season in the streets of Cologne, Germany, Nov. 11, 2021, despite a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. Germany’s carnival season, a series of festivals among German Catholics, began Thursday but ... Read More

Danny Fenster A Myanmar military court has sentenced US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in jail. Fenster was found guilty of breaching immigration law, unlawful association and encouraging dissent against the military. He was earlier this week slapped with two additional charges ... Read More

The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is entering its final day, amid growing fears that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is unlikely to be met. UN Secretary General António Guterres bluntly told the Associated Press news agency that ... Read More

Around 1,000 people crossed the Channel by boat to reach the UK on Thursday, a new record for migrant Channel crossings in a single day. Five lifeboats and four Border Force vessels escorted groups to Dover as a period of calm ... Read More

The United States and European members of the U.N. Security Council condemned Belarus on Thursday for what they called the “cynical instrumentalization of migrants,” as tensions simmered along the Polish-Belarusian border. “We … condemn the orchestrated instrumentalization of human beings whose ... Read More

FW de Klerk FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85. Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation's transition to ... Read More

John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, speaks at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 10, 2021. The United States and China surprised the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Wednesday with a joint declaration to take ... Read More

The emotional and racially charged trial of three white men accused of killing an African American jogger focused on whether the tragic shooting was an act of murder or self-defense. Day Four of the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial in Brunswick, Georgia, ... Read More