For people who spend long hours beside busy roads, breathing polluted air is often part of the job. Street vendors, traffic officers, market traders, construction workers and other outdoor workers can spend hours each day exposed to exhaust fumes and…
Canada has announced counter-tariffs as high as 50% on a range of US goods in retaliation to the latest wave of levies on Canadian imports imposed by President Donald Trump last weekend. The Canadian tariffs will apply to nearly C$28bn…
A 22-year-old fisherman who stabbed a man on the left arm, back and head during traditional rites at Teshie in Accra has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Godwin Tetteh, charged with causing harm, pleaded guilty when he appeared before an Accra…
Alex Awere-Kyere, Senior Manager for Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) at the Cyber Security Authority (CSA), has cautioned Journalists against publishing unverified cybercrime claims and unresolved computer system vulnerabilities that could aid criminals. He said the media’s role in exposing cyber threats…
On 28 April last year, Portugal and Spain went dark for several hours. A massive power failure caused widespread chaos. People dug out lanterns and old radios, and companies scrambled to save what production they could. The Spanish meat processing…
President Donald Trump‘s administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented fee of more than $100,000 on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, a measure that has been blocked by the courts. The fee, first temporarily…
Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, after falling more than 2% in the previous session, as investors assessed the impact of harsher U.S. secondary sanctions against Iran. Brent crude futures were down 9 cents, or 0.1%, at $92.16 by 0104 GMT,…
President Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the U.S., marking its latest step in a sweeping immigration crackdown. A State Department spokesman…
A U.S. appeals court has asked to hear arguments over whether a lower court judge in Mississippi should be reassigned from a case after he issued an order containing errors stemming from the use of AI. A 5th U.S. Circuit…
U.S. President Donald Trump invested as much as $50,000 in Elon Musk’s SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run by his former adviser. He bought between $15,001 and…