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A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say. Most were detained after a gun battle at a house in the capital Port-au-Prince where they were holed up. Bloodied and bruised, suspects were paraded in front of media on …

Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his private residence, according to a statement by interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph. Mr Joseph said the president’s residence in Port-au-Prince was stormed by unidentified armed men at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT). The First Lady was reportedly also …

The Minister for Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has been invited by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to serve on its Mission 4.7 High-Level Advisory Group as an Honourary and Meritorious Member. In the letter of invitation dated 23 June 2021 and co-signed by Dr Jeffrey D. Sachs, …

A 28-year-old Ghanaian resident in Tamale, Maxwell Atugba Abayeta known widely as Maxwell Peter has been named among the top 30 online fraudsters in the USA. The suspect who was arrested and extradited to the US in August last year has been indicted and charged with wire fraud, money laundering, …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionBill Cosby looked frail as he slowly walked to waiting media outside his house, supported by his legal team US comedian Bill Cosby has left prison hours after his sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court. The judges said there had been a “process violation” by …

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George says the threats on his life for pushing against LGBTQI promotion in the country is unending. He said the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews is one of such persons who has threatened to jail him if he [Sam George] …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionWestern Canada and the US Pacific north-west have seen days of baking temperatures Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. Police in British Columbia have responded to almost 70 sudden deaths since Monday, the majority of them involving elderly …

Pope Francis met Spider-Man at a general papal audience in Vatican City on Wednesday. Mattia Villardita, the 28-year-old who dressed up as Peter Parker’s superhero persona, said it’s his mission to bring joy to children in the hospital. “This all came about from a personal story. I was a patient for 19 …

The Queen has been left with a £10million shortfall in her finances as a result of the pandemic. Buckingham Palace revealed yesterday that it had lost just over half its annual income outside of Government funding after closing to visitors. It meant the royal household was forced to break into its savings. …

miasm At least one person has died and dozens are missing after the collapse of a 12-storey residential building north of Miami, Florida, officials say. The number of people who have been located now stands at 102, while 99 are still unaccounted for, according to Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine-Cava. It …