A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI’s handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. In a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency’s inquiry had lacked “analytical rigor”. He concluded the FBI had not possessed “actual evidence” of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia […]
The UK will send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to Ukraine on top of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles announced last week. The move means the UK is going further than any other country in providing weapons with the potential to tip the battlefield in Ukraine’s favour. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky met […]
When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language.” Now at age 90, she is the last known speaker of N|uu, one of a group of indigenous languages in South Africa that have […]
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been honoured by his alma mater, the University of Oxford’s Exeter College, with the unveiling of two art works bearing his photograph in the college. The two commissioned works of art—a photographic portrait and an oil painting – will decorate the hall of an 18th century building, Cohen Quad, […]
Virginia Siebenrok, the Chief Food Safety Quality, World Food Programme (WFP), has urged Ghana to adapt a standard local food safety quality at all locations to ensure a more harmonized food safety system. She said this was important as food safety was constantly changing, adding that “the risk and emerging risks are different depending on […]
A war of words is brewing between the U.S. and South Africa after the U.S. ambassador to the country said he would “bet his life” on U.S. intelligence that South African weapons were loaded onto a Russian vessel when it docked at a Cape Town naval base in December. The South African government hit back, […]
Rishi Sunak is “disappointed” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been allowed to address this year’s Eurovision, his spokesman says. The organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), say it would breach its political impartiality. But Downing Street said it would be “fitting” for Mr Zelensky to speak given Russia’s invasion of his country. Labour leader […]
Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis has warned. Addressing a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis, he said pets were replacing children in many households. Also on stage were dozens of young people, wearing t-shirts saying “we can do this” – alluding to convincing […]
The European Union (EU) has invested GH¢75 million (€6.2 million) to help boost the competitiveness of the country’s exports on the international market. The investment, made in the last four years, focused on three main value chains which included cassava, fruits (mango and pineapple), cosmetics and personal care products. It was a contribution to the […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as the military awaits the delivery of promised aid. The expected attack could be decisive in the war, redrawing frontlines that, for months, have remained unchanged. It will also be a crucial test for Ukraine, eager […]
