Hillary Clinton on Saturday questioned FBI Director James Comey’s decision to write to congressional leaders about emails uncovered in the bureau’s probe into Anthony Weiner, saying the timing of such a move was “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.” “It’s pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election,” Clinton … Read more
A number of popular websites like Twitter and Netflix went down for some users on Friday in a massive cyberattack with international reach. Affected sites included Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Etsy (ETSY), Github, Vox, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) and Reddit. Dyn, which manages website domains and routes internet traffic, experienced two distributed denial of service … Read more
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left the shores of Ghana on Thursday, October 13, 2016. A statement signed by Akufo-Addo’s Press Secretary Eugene Arhin said he is going on a 4-day private trip to Germany and the United Kingdom. The opposition leader is expected to return to … Read more
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will embark on a four-day tour of the Ashanti Region next week Wednesday, October 19, 2016. This is the second time he will be touring the region ahead of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections. He has already toured all the 10 … Read more
Russia’s role in U. S election under growing scrutiny Russia’s highest officials are dismissing accusations that Moscow is trying to sway the US presidential election with cyber attacks. President Vladimir Putin ridiculed such talk Wednesday as “hysteria.” “Let them prove it,” Sergei Lavrov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, waving off a US vow to retaliate with … Read more
It’s not a new Cold War. It’s not even a deep chill. It’s an outright conflict. US-Russia relations have deteriorated sharply amid a barrage of accusations and disagreements, raising the stakes on issues ranging from the countries’ competing military operations in Syria, disputes over Eastern European independence and escalating cyber breaches. “This is a conflict, … Read more
A member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is reported dead after falling off the bumper of a car while it was in motion. The man was said to be part of party member cheering the NPP flagbearer at Ayawaso Central, as part of his campaign tour of the Greater Accra region. Press Secretary … Read more
The Pentagon says a US air strike has killed one of so-called Islamic State’s most senior leaders, Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, in Syria. Also known as “Dr Wa’il”, he was minister of information for IS, and oversaw the production of propaganda videos showing executions. The Pentagon said the strike had taken place near Raqqa … Read more
North Korea says it has successfully carried out its fifth nuclear test. The announcement on state media came hours after a seismic event was detected near its nuclear test site. South Korea believes it is the North’s biggest ever test, raising fears the state has made real nuclear advances. South Korean President Park Geun-hye called … Read more
Running mate to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today [Thursday] deliver a lecture on “The State of the Ghanaian Economy-A Foundation of Concrete or Straw’ as the nation inches towards the 2016 general election. Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana who is described … Read more
Eugene Arhin, Press Secretary to the Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated categorically that members of the party will continue to call President John Dramani Mahama ‘incompetent’ and ‘visionless’ without mincing words. According to him, it is not an insult to describe the President in that manner, … Read more
On the night of July 7, seven American diplomats in Juba left a farewell dinner early and were headed back to the U. S. Embassy, anxious to avoid the city’s deepening chaos, when their two-car convoy was ambushed by the South Sudanese presidential guard of Salva Kiir. South Sudanese troops fired between 50 and 100 … Read more
France has carried out a massive airstrike on an Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa, Syria. It struck dozen’s of targets including a command and control center, training camp and munitions warehouse, the country’s defense ministry announced. Twelve French aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, took part in the country’s biggest air raid in Syria, the statement … Read more
The Pentagon has today confirmed that the leader of the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Godane, Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in a US air strike earlier this week. The United States previously said that the strike inside Somalia had targeted Godane, but did not know whether he had been killed. “We have … Read more