It seems surreal but in fact real: U.S. President Donald Trump spends his first full day in office on Saturday denying his feud with the CIA, ignoring the massive protests against him, and blasting the media over lessening his inaugural crowd. The fights greatly overshadowed the new president’s three diplomatic moves announced in the day: […]

Taliban outfit has asked the new U.S. administration to review its policy in Afghanistan and withdraw all the foreign forces from the insurgency-plagued country, a local news agency reported on Sunday. “The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan has asked President Donald Trump to review the Afghanistan policy and not to follow the previous approaches,” Kaama […]

A car bomb explosion hit the Libyan capital Tripoli late Saturday, near the Italian embassy, local media said. The bombing took place in downtown Tripoli, where several embassy buildings are located, most of which are empty. Some media reports said the explosion killed two people. The explosion caused damages to nearby vehicles and buildings. No […]

Black Stars head coach Avram Grant has expressed his delight at the team’s passage to the quarter-final of the ongoing 2017 African Cup of Nations in Gabon. Ghana’s progress was sealed with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Mali at the Port Gentil Stadium on Saturday thanks to a header from captain Asamoah Gyan in the […]

Burkina Faso has achieved 95.84 percent of its targeted tax incomes recovery over 2016, tax authority disclosed here on Friday. “In 2016, we recovered 617.39 billion CFA Francs (1.006 billion U.S. dollars) out of an overall objective of 644.20 billion CFA Francs (1.05 billion dollars) representing 95.84 percent of the achievement rate,” Adama Badolo, tax […]

A poster of “Bonnie Bears: Entangled Worlds.” [Photo / China.org.cn] The fourth installment of “Bonnie Bears” franchise is set to sweep the children’s market during the Spring Festival. The animated feature “Bonnie Bears: Entangled Worlds,” directed by Lin Huida and Lin Yongchang, performed strong at box offices and raked in more than 20 million yuan […]

Over one million people Saturday took to the streets and staged rallies across the United States to protest against President Donald Trump’s first full day as the 45th U.S. President. People participate in the Women’s March protesting Trump’s presidency following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington D.C., the United States, Jan. 21, […]

China cannot build a soccer culture overnight by splurging on overseas players, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said. The Chinese Super League recently witnessed two high-profile additions as Argentina striker Carlos Tevez moved to Shanghai Greenland Shenhua and Brazil midfielder Oscar joined Shanghai SIPG for huge salaries. Reports suggest that Shenhua paid 84 million euros […]

Premier Li Keqiang meets with Scottish-American chemist Sir James Fraser Stoddart, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. [Wu Zhiyi/China Daily] More foreign talent is welcome to China for innovation work and business, and the government will step up support in such areas […]

Ronnie O’Sullivan described his 6-4 win over Marco Fu as his “best ever” as he recovered from a damaged cue tip to reach the final of the Dafabet Masters. Crowd favourite O’Sullivan is into his 12th Masters final and is aiming for his seventh title, which would put him ahead of the record of six […]

The Special Mothers Project, an association of mothers with children who have cerebral palsy, on Friday donated GHc500 to the Madina Demonstration Unit School. The donation is a symbolic gesture to kick start a fund raising campaign to upgrade the school and to encourage mothers with children with cerebral palsy to patronize the services of […]

Nintendo has signalled the “end of life” for its Wii U games console, which was first released in 2012. Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo America, told Polygon that Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would be the company’s final game for the device. “We really are at the end of life for Wii U,” […]

Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated the Savelugu central Mosque in the Northern Region. The Saudi Kingdom funded Mosque, known as AlhuMaidan Centre, has ancillary facilities such as an ultra modern school complex, staff bungalow, offices and latrines. Ghanaian born Saudi Arabia scholar in charge of the Saudi government’s humanitarian services in Ghana, […]

In his first official visit to the top U.S. spy agency, U.S. President Donald Trump vowed Saturday that “radical Islamic terrorism” has to be eradicated “right now”. Trump told hundreds of staff of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia, that the United States has to get rid of the Islamic State (IS), […]

President Donald Trump has accused the media of dishonestly reporting the size of the crowd at his inauguration. He said the crowd had reached the Washington monument as he spoke at the US Capitol, despite photographic evidence to the contrary. Later, his White House press secretary said it had been “the largest audience to ever […]