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Washington on Thursday barred American civilian flights from the area where Iran shot down a US military drone, a strike that President Donald Trump slammed as a “big mistake.” The downing of the drone — which Washington insists was above international waters but Iran says was … Read more...

There was panic at China-Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru in Nakawa Division as patients and some health workers dashed out of the wards subsequent to an Ebola scare. Dr Emmanuel Batibwe, the hospital director, said a patient had been admitted with Ebola-like symptoms before he died … Read...

Three 20-year old girls who pledged to hold together despite a shocking revelation that two of them had been mysteriously switched at birth have been separated after one of the mothers reclaimed her biological daughter on Friday. Melvis Imbaya who was raised up in Kakamega with one of the...

No HIV infections occurred over two years of follow-up among individuals taking event-driven pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a demonstration study conducted in Amsterdam, investigators report in Lancet HIV. The study recruited MSM and transgender individuals who were given the option of ...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has initiated investigations into a video that has gone viral on social media involving a Nigerian English professor. In a release signed by Ms Juliana Obeng, Deputy Superintendent of Police, the Head of Public Affairs …...

Ghana has been ranked as the fourth most peaceful country in Africa, according to the latest Global Peace Index. Mauritius, Botswana and Malawi ranked first, second and third respectively as the most peaceful countries in Africa. Ghana, however, placed 44th in the world with Iceland leading...

Donald Trump approved but then scrapped strikes against Iranian targets on Thursday, according to reports, after Iran shot down a US drone in what the president termed a "big mistake." The US was planning to hit "a handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries" on Thursday …...

Google will not be launching a sequel to last year’s Pixel Slate tablet, according to Business Insider and Computer World, and will instead focus its Chrome OS hardware efforts on traditional laptop devices like the Pixelbook. “For Google’s first-party hardware efforts, we’ll be focusing on...

Apple has joined a growing chorus of firms urging the Trump administration to drop a plan for more US tariffs on Chinese goods. The US has said it may impose duties on $300bn (£236.1bn) worth of Chinese products if the two sides can’t reach … Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/2WZdDWH...

Britain will crash out of the EU on 31 October unless Theresa May’s Brexit deal is ratified or a new prime minister calls a second referendum or general election this summer, the bloc’s leaders have concluded. The Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, speaking at a summit in Brussels, … Read...

You might have heard recently, from publications like the Washington Post, NBC, and of course, Newsweek, that some people are growing a “horn” or a “spike” out of the back of their skull from using a smartphone too much. For anyone who was excited about gaining a futuristic protuberance, I’m...