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Nearly 78 percent of Russians support constitutional amendments
A total of 77.92 percent of Russians have backed the 206 amendments to the country's constitution in a referendum, while 21.27 percent have voted...
Africa’s COVID-19 cases nearly 290,000 as death toll reach 7,693
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent reached 286,141 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Africa’s confirmed COVID-19 cases nearly 120,000
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent reached 119,391 as the death toll from the ongoing pandemic surged to 3,589 as...
Nearly 100 returnees escape from Zimbabwe COVID-19 quarantine centers
Zimbabwe police said 99 returning Zimbabwean residents have escaped from quarantine centers throughout the country, as the country tries to contain COVID-19 cases, local...
Bank of Ghana provides nearly US$1 billion to fill budget gaps over COVID-19
Ghana's central bank has provided budgeting support to the government to plug part of the resource gaps created by the COVID-19 outbreak, the governor...
U.S. oil jumps nearly 20 percent amid geopolitical concerns
U.S. oil prices surged nearly 20 percent on Thursday as traders eyed on tensions between the United States and Iran.
The West...
Earnings of German carmaker Daimler plummets by nearly 80 percent in first quarter
Group EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) of Daimler plummeted by almost 80 percent year-on-year to 617 million euros (666 million U.S. dollars) in...
Dow soars nearly 1,300 points, best one-day point gain in history
U.S. equities finished sharply higher on Monday with the Dow surging nearly 1,300 points, as Wall Street attempted to recover from last week's steep...
Gold futures rally around 2 percent after biggest daily drop in nearly 7 years
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose around 2 percent on Monday, after suffering the sharpest drop since...
Dow plunges nearly 1,200 points amid risk-averse sentiment
The Dow plunged nearly 1,200 points, or over 4.4 percent, below the 26,000 psychological level on Thursday as market sell-off continued amid risk-averse sentiment.
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German Development Bank grants Tunisia nearly US$30 million loan
The German Development Bank (KfW) granted Tunisia a loan of 27.5 million euros (about 29.9 million U.S. dollars) to finish the Medjerda-Cap Bon Canal...
Nearly US$50 million donated via China Red Cross to curb pneumonia outbreak
As of Saturday, the Red Cross Society of China has received donations of 340 million yuan (about 49 million U.S. dollars) to help fight...
Nearly 2,000 Rwandan refugees repatriated from DRC
A total of 1,919 Rwandan refugees have been repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following a Congolese military offensive against armed groups...
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U.S. reopens embassy in Somalia after nearly 3 decades
The United States has announced the reopening of its embassy in Somalia after 28 years when the country plunged into civil war.
Donald...
MTN Ghana Settles Taxes Totaling Gh₵1.5 Billion
Telecoms giant, MTN Ghana, last year, paid a total of GHC1.48 billion in taxes, out of which, GHC1.3 billion went to the Ghana Revenue...
Ghana ended 2018 with nearly GH₵173.2 Billion in public debt
Ghana ended last year (2018) with total public debt standing at 173.2 billion Ghana cedis or 35.92 billion US Dollars compared with the 142.6...
Ed Sheeran Has Invested Nearly £42 Million on Houses and Eateries within 7-Years
The 28-year-old singer - who didn't have anywhere to live for much of 2008 and all of 2009 and 2010 - has become a...
Nearly 200 Dagbon Leaders Educated on Non-violence
Two hundred leaders, made up of 100 men and 100 women have been educated on non-violence in a workshop organised by the Northern Region...
Man Almost Killed on False Kidnapping Panic
Some angry residents at Effiakuma, a suburb of Sekondi/Takoradi on Wednesday nearly whisked life out of a man who was falsely accused by the...
Ex- President Lula Slapped With Additional Sentence
Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nearly 13 more years in prison on Wednesday on corruption and money laundering charges,...
Tori Spelling has been directed to settle a credit card bill of nearly US$90k
The 'Beverly Hills, 90210' actress was sued by American Express for months of unpaid bills and the company then filed a court order forcing...
About 295,000 Syrians return home from Turkey in 2018
Nearly 295,000 Syrians returned home from Turkey in 2018, Turkish Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Meanwhile, nearly 270,000 irregular migrants were held...
125-year-old jeans sell for nearly US$100k
A pair of 125-year-old jeans has sold for nearly 100,000 U.S. dollars, setting a record for vintage denim, U.S. media said Saturday.
The pants, manufactured...
Fire Almost Raced Down a Goil Fuel Station
There was a fire outbreak at the Goil Filling Station opposite the Ghana Commercial Bank branch in Tarkwa last Tuesday evening.
The fire, which lasted...
Nearly a quarter of Ghana’s population lacks good drinking water
Close to a quarter of Ghana's population lacks access to good drinking water, international charity, Water Aid, disclosed here on Thursday.
In its State of...
UNAIDS Reveals 21 million People With HIV Now Have Treatment
New report from UNAIDS highlights the right to health as the key to ending AIDS
Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. Ahead of...
Ghana plans to spend nearly US$14 billion in 2018
The Ghanaian government plans to spend 62 billion Ghana cedis (13.9 billion U.S. dollars) in the 2018 fiscal year, the country's finance minister said...
Tax evasion cost Ghana loss of nearly US$200 million in petroleum revenue in 2016
About 850 million Ghana cedis or 192.9 million US Dollars in revenue from the downstream petroleum sector were lost to Ghana in 2016 alone,...
Global Business Climate Improved with Close to 3,200 Reforms
Governments in 119 economies carried out 264 business reforms in the past year to create jobs, attract investment and become more competitive, says the...
China’s Postal Service Takes Up 20% of Worlds Market Share
The market size of China’s postal service is approaching 1/5 of the world’s total market scale, the country’s State Postal Bureau (SPB) reported at...