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Just three decades ago, Ghana was in crisis; impoverished and suffering famine, it was on the verge of economic collapse. Fast-forward to the present day, the West African nation has staged a remarkable comeback and is predicted to be the world’s fastest growing economy in 2019. .... Read...

We already know a lot about the upcoming iPhone 11 and iPhone XR2 and their controversial design changes. But now Apple has suddenly confirmed all three of its new iPhone models. .. Read more via Forbes – http://bit.ly/2VKChVp Get more World News

Several people were wounded Friday by a suspected package bomb blast on a pedestrian street in the heart of Lyon in southeastern France, the local prosecutors’ office said. The area where the explosion occurred, on the narrow strip of land between the Saone and Rhone rivers in the historic …...

New Delhi – A massive fire broke out at a tuition class in India’s Western state of Gujarat on Friday killing 18 students, police said. Videos recorded by locals which were circulated on social media showed several students jumping off the third floor and fourth floor of the … Read more via...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will send about 1,500 American troops to the Middle East, mostly as a protective measure, amid heightened tensions with Iran. However, the Republican leader played down the potential for military conflict in the region, saying he believed Iran …...

US President Donald Trump, who is not a friend of the media, has called CNN’s anchor Don Lemon the dumbest man on TV. This was after Don Lemon ran a segment on Trump’s recent infrastructure meeting with the Democratic party, Speaker of the House of … Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s...

North Korea on Friday blamed the “arbitrary and dishonest” U.S. position for the failure to reach a deal during a second North Korea-U.S. summit, warning the nuclear issue would never be resolved without a new American approach. A spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry accused the United...

Theresa May’s emotional but succinct farewell message as Prime Minister was anything but shallow. Theresa May in no few words took us down memory lane on the positive changes she had made as the leader of the conservative party to make Great Britain a more humane place … Read more via Plus...

Kenya’s High Court has kept a law which bans gay sex. Gay-rights groups argued that the state has no business regulating matters of intimacy. However, religious groups said such matters should be guided by the country’s values. The penal code, which is a legacy of colonial-era rule...