Wacam, a non-governmental mining advocacy group, has denied media reports suggesting that the organisation was spreading news that Ghanaians must not buy foodstuff and fish from Kenyase in the Brong Ahafo Region because they were contaminated. Associate Executive Director of WACAM, Mrs. Hannah Owusu Koranteng, in a press statement released last week Friday, denied that … Read more
Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known activists who fled to the United States, charged Thursday that Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo was “deliberately killed” by the country’s rulers, urging the international community to maintain pressure on Beijing. Liu, a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 who was jailed in 2009 for “inciting subversion … Read more
An Iranian cancer researcher with alleged links to a hardline militia in the Islamic republic says he was denied entry to the United States and deported with his family. Mohsen Dehnavi had flown to the US with his wife and three small children to conduct postdoctoral research at Boston Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University. … Read more
China faced sustained international pressure on Thursday to let cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo seek treatment abroad, as official hospital updates suggest the democracy champion is close to death. The United States and Germany voiced concerns over the 61-year-old writer after the hospital treating him said Wednesday he had organ failure and difficulty breathing. The … Read more
An advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously urged the US Food and Drug Administration to approve a cutting-edge cancer therapy that genetically alters a patient’s own immune system to attack leukemia. The treatment known as CTL019 was developed by lead researcher Carl June at the University of Pennsylvania and licensed to Novartis as a treatment for … Read more
Germany said Wednesday it was ready to treat terminally ill Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, and urged Beijing to let him leave the country. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert voiced “the very greatest concern” over reports that Liu’s health had further deteriorated, calling the family’s situation “dramatic”. The democracy advocate’s hospital said Wednesday that … Read more
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is recovering fast from an undisclosed illness and should be back in Nigeria soon, his deputy said on Wednesday, after a whistlestop trip to meet the ailing head of state in London. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo told reporters before a weekly cabinet meeting in Abuja that he had been in London on … Read more
The depleted government coffers of bankrupt Puerto Rico will take in $50 million a month now that a law allowing the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has taken effect, the governor said. After the bill survived a bumpy ride through the National Assembly in this US territory, Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares signed it on … Read more
China’s cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is in a critical condition, the hospital treating him said Monday, raising fears about his life a day after Western doctors said there was time to take him abroad. The First Hospital of China Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang said Liu’s tumour has grown and his … Read more
Bradley Lowery, the Sunderland football mascot whose battle with a rare cancer helped raise more than £1m to help others, has died, his family said. The six-year-old Sunderland fan came to public attention after he struck up a friendship with the club’s star striker Jermain Defoe following his diagnosis with neuroblastoma. In a statement on the family’s … Read more
US and German doctors are set to visit China’s cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo this weekend, sources familiar with Liu’s case told AFP, as the democracy advocate’s health has deteriorated. Three sources said at least two doctors are due to visit the 61-year-old activist in the northeastern city of Shenyang following an invitation … Read more
Fears about the health of China’s cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo rose on Thursday as the hospital treating him said the liver function of the country’s most prominent democracy advocate had deteriorated. Friends voiced concerns that Liu, 61, is now near death after it emerged last month that he had been transferred from prison to … Read more
The liver function of China’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo “has deteriorated”, the hospital treating him said Thursday, raising fears about the cancer-stricken activist’s future. China Medical University No 1 Hospital said on its website that Liu, 61, may also have a blood clot on a calf muscle and that a group of medical … Read more
South Korea’s new football coach criticised his predecessor Uli Stielike on Thursday, accusing the veteran German of lacking strategies and blaming communication difficulties with the players for poor results. Stielike, 62, won the European Championship and was a World Cup runner-up with Germany as a player, and went on to manage Switzerland and Ivory Coast, … Read more
Pumas scrum-half Tomas Cubelli makes his return from a lengthy injury for the ACT Brumbies but cancer survivor Christian Lealiifano’s expected comeback has been delayed in this weekend’s penultimate round of Super Rugby. Argentine Cubello, who has not played since suffering a pre-season knee injury, gets his chance off the bench behind Joe Powell when … Read more
In furtherance of its core objective of securing a breast cancer free generation in the medium-to-long term, Breast Care International, has once again freely screened over one thousand students of the Ejisuman Senior High School, in the Ashanti region. In attendance was Breast Care International (BCI) President, Dr. Breatrice Wiafe Addai, who in a post … Read more
The Chinese hospital caring for cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has decided to invite US, German and other foreign experts to treat him in China following international pressure to let him go abroad. The legal bureau of Shenyang — the northeastern city where Liu is being treated — said in a statement Wednesday the invitation … Read more
Former under-20 boss Shin Tae-Yong was given the task of rescuing South Korea’s teetering World Cup qualifying campaign when he was named as the country’s new national team boss on Tuesday. Shin replaces Uli Stielike, 62, South Korea’s longest-serving coach, who was axed last month after a shock defeat to Qatar left them in danger … Read more
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has stressed on the importance of breasts, saying they are one very important part of the body which is appreciated by men. He disclosed this during a courtesy call on him at his residence by Yaba, the winner and current beauty queen of Ghana’s Most Beautiful 2016 (GMB), to officially inform … Read more
South African President Jacob Zuma admitted Friday the ruling ANC party is beset by corruption and divisions that could threaten its uninterrupted hold on power since the end of apartheid rule. Zuma, who has himself been at the centre of several major corruption scandals, called on the African National Congress (ANC) to reform and turn … Read more