Articles from the ‘International’ category
Posted by selorm on February 20, 2012 at 8:21 am in Business, International, Travel & Tourism
STORY: KWAKU NTI Emirates, one of the world’s fastest-growing international airlines, underlined its commitment to Ghana this month by introducing the Airbus A340-500 on to the Accra-Dubai route, starting from 1 February 2012. “Demand for our services to Accra has been steadily building and the introduction of the A340-500 will offer our customers an even [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 16, 2012 at 8:56 am in International, Science
Iran is to unveil a “new generation” of faster, more efficient uranium enrichment centrifuges, state television says. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to make an announcement on Iran’s nuclear programme later. Western countries fear that Iran is working towards making its own nuclear weapons. Tehran denies this, saying its nuclear programme is only for energy [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 5, 2012 at 3:50 pm in International, Other Top Stories, Politics
Mitt Romney has declared victory in Nevada’s Republican caucuses, cementing his frontrunner status in the race to be the party’s presidential candidate. With just over 70% of the votes counted, he had secured 47.6% of the vote – well ahead of his nearest rival Newt Gingrich on 22.6%. It is Mr Romney’s second victory in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:37 pm in International, Other Top Stories
Snow fell in Rome on saturday for the first time in 26 years as freezing temperatures took the death toll across Europe to more than 150. The Italian capital is usually blessed by a moderate climate but the snowfall prompted authorities stop visitors from entering the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill, the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 14, 2011 at 9:45 am in International, News From Other Newspapers
The nagging wife of Tunisia’s ousted president had to force him to flee the country on a private jet by telling him to ‘get on board, you idiot’, a French magazine has revealed. Shamed dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is said to have refused to board the plane at Tunis airport, insisting: ‘I don’t want [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 11, 2011 at 9:09 am in International, Other Top Stories
A war of words erupted on Thursday between WikiLeaks and a disgruntled former employee who published a tell-all book dishing the dirt on the whistle-blowing website and its founder Julian Assange. Inside WikiLeaks is billed as an account of Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s time as programmer and media spokesperson for what his book, due for release in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:05 am in International, Other Top Stories
At least 296 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations mission in the crisis-hit west African nation said on Thursday. At least 22 people have died in the past week, the spokesperson for the UN Mission in Ivory Coast (UNOCI), Hamadoun Toure, told journalists. The [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 4, 2011 at 11:20 am in International, Other Top Stories
By Jonathan Browning and Thomas Penny The U.K. government complained to Egypt after Vodafone Group Plc was ordered to send text messages seen to instigate violence as demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. U.K. Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt contacted the Egyptian ambassador in London to discuss the order to Vodafone after the [...]
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