Ghana’s former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has been placed on Interpol’s Red Notice list for allegedly using public office for personal gain. This comes after Ghanaian prosecutors declared him a wanted person as well as a fugitive from justice, as he was outside the country, over his alleged involvement in several corruption cases when he […]
Police are still looking for a Washington man they believe murdered his three young daughters one week ago. Travis Decker, 32, is wanted on kidnapping and first-degree murder charges for killing his daughters, aged nine, eight and five, according to the Wenatchee Police Department in Washington state. Officials believe Mr Decker, who they say is […]
Even though observers have long speculated that Donald Trump and Elon Musk would eventually fall out, few predicted the speed and ferocity with which their social media feud erupted. Since Musk pledged his full-throated support for the president following an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania less than a year ago, the political and business interests of […]
c was on Friday denied permission to exit from Tanzania as he tried to cross into Kenya. Lema who is a member of the Chadema party said Tanzanian authorities had put him on a “stop list” and barred him from leaving the country. The politician said he was held at the Namanga border post by […]
US President Donald Trump said “Oh it’s okay,” when asked about his very public breakup with former ally and donor Elon Musk, POLITICO reported. White House aides have, according to the outlet, also scheduled a call with Musk on Friday in the hope of diffusing the situation. Trump and Musk’s unlikely political marriage exploded in […]
A US judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a ban the president ordered barring Harvard University from accepting international students. The order by Judge Allison Burroughs, who is based in Massachusetts, said the oldest university in the US would face “immediate and irreparable injury” if the proclamation went […]
After it was spotted in live testing by some users last week, X owner Elon Musk has now confirmed that a new version of what he’s calling “XChat” is now available to some X Premium subscribers, and coming to all paying X users this week. The new version of X DMs is built on a […]
Elon Musk dropped a bombshell accusation, claiming his former close friend Donald Trump appears in the Epstein files. The claim was part of a spectacular war of words between the world’s most powerful men, with the president claiming the Tesla boss has “Trump derangement syndrome”, and Mr Musk insisting Mr Trump only won the election […]
South Korean lawmakers on Saturday voted to impeach president Yoon Suk Yeol, one week after he controversially declared martial law. In dramatic scenes at the national assembly in Seoul, 204 lawmakers voted for an opposition motion to impeach Yoon, while an estimated 200,000 protesters outside demanded he be thrown out of office. Saturday was the […]
Georgia’s political crisis deepened Friday, as new pro-Europe protests gripped Tbilisi ahead of the nomination of a far-right government loyalist as president. The Black Sea nation has been in turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in contested October parliamentary elections, with its decision last month to delay EU accession talks igniting a […]
Lawmakers in South Korea narrowly failed to impeach the nation’s president over his short-lived attempt to declare martial law. A bill to censure Yoon Suk Yeol fell three votes short of the 200 needed to pass, with many members of parliament in the ruling People Power Party (PPP) boycotting the vote. The South Korean premier […]
More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say three bodies were recovered earlier this week on the first day of the rescue operation. Most of those rescued, reportedly foreign nationals, claim they were forced underground against their will to search for gold. A […]