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Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, a Ghanaian nurse resident in the United Kingdom who died of a Covid-induced multiple organ failure after her baby was delivered at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in the UK, where she worked as a nurse has been featured in a documentary by AlJazeera. Five days after giving …

Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that he could have stopped Joe Biden becoming president last year. In his strongest rebuttal yet, he said Mr Trump was wrong to suggest he had had the right to overturn the election. Separately the Republican Party censured two …

The leader of the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed in an overnight US special forces raid in north-west Syria, President Joe Biden says. Mr Biden said the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi had “removed a major terrorist threat to the world”. Qurayshi detonated a bomb that killed …

The sentencing of Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi has been postponed till July 11, 2022, by a United States District Court for the Central District of California. Justice Otis D. Wright granted the order after Hushpuppi’s lawyers led by Louis Shapiro entered a request for postponement. He is expected to …

IMAGE SOURCE,REUTERSImage caption, Mr Putin was speaking after talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine. He said America’s goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose …

French Ambassador adds ‘Akosua’ to her names French Ambassador roots herself in the Ghanaian culture French Ambassador enstooled in Bono Region French Ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie Avé has, in a viral picture been spotted standing in a queue to buy waakye from a local food vendor. Since she assumed …

A brilliant schoolboy was on his way to play Sunday League football when he died in a crash – with his family paying a heartbreaking tribute. Ted Vines was a passenger in a car that collided with another yesterday morning and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The 12-year-old …

  A white father and son convicted of killing a black jogger have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury found Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbour, William Bryan, guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. Bryan also received the maximum penalty …

An Accra Magistrate Court has granted GHS100,000 bail with two sureties to alleged murderers of Ms Julie Diane Williams, an American Strip Dancer. One of the sureties is to be justified. The case has been adjourned to January 25, 2022. The accused persons are Bright Udiagbe alias Big Slim, a …

Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 49-year-old is feeling well, has no serious symptoms and is under constant medical observation, the head of his Cabinet announced in Warsaw on Wednesday. Duda went into isolation in accordance with regulations. The head of state has reportedly been …