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A US jury in the first civil trial over a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash determined Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturing giant owes $28. 45 million to the family of a newly-wed Indian victim. The case involves the survivors of Shikha Garg of New Delhi, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, one of two fatal MAX crashes that togethe .

Jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal arrived in Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday after Algiers agreed to a German request that he be pardoned. A spokeswoman for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who on Monday had urged Algeria to free the 81-year-old given his fragile health condition , confirmed to AFP that Sansal had .

France's foreign minister criticized military operations in the Caribbean at a G7 meeting on Tuesday, as the deployment of a US aircraft carrier strike group escalated an arms buildup in the region. Speaking to reporters at the start of a

Ethiopia said on Tuesday it would host the United Nations' COP32 climate summit in 2027, fending off a rival bid from Nigeria to land an influential role that will allow it to shape the agenda and outcomes of the event.

There is an old Dagomba proverb which says: ldquo;When you throw a toad over your wall, you don rsquo;t go to see how it fell. rdquo; That, sadly, is how many pensioners in Ghana feel about the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).

Boeing reached a last-minute settlement in one of two lawsuits in this week's trial in Chicago over a 2019 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people, attorneys announced Wednesday. The accord leaves a single plaintiff remaining in the first civil trial over the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, which began in earnest Wednesday after attorneys on T .

The Upper East Regional Police Command has arrested a woman identified as Lariba Alhassan for allegedly inciting residents of Garu to attack and kill soldiers deployed to maintain peace in the area. Her arrest, which took place on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, follows the circulation of a viral audio recording in which she was heard callin .

The Breast Society of Ghana (BSOG), in collaboration with the Breast Clinic of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, held a grand durbar to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month with an advocacy for social support for breast cancer patients.

Savana Signatures has strongly condemned the alleged gang rape of a teenage Junior High School student (name withheld) in the Tolon District of the Northern Region, describing the act as a grave violation of the survivor rsquo;s rights, dignity, and safety.

The Director of Communications at the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana, Alhaji Mohammed Amin Lamptey, has highlighted the significance of the upcoming Annual Hajj and Umrah Conference and Exhibition, scheduled to take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from November 9 to 12, 2025.

Yona Sabri Ellon cannot see the ball at his feet, but he can hear it. A faint rattle guides him past a defender and he fires into the back of the net. Ellon has taken his South Sudanese blind football team a step closer to their dream of playing at the 2028 Paralympics in California.

The French Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual act, making France the latest European country to enshrine the principle of consent in law.

In Bamako's business district, hundreds of cars and motorcycles sit stranded day and night on a boulevard, waiting for one of three side-by-side petrol stations to finally have fuel. Jihadists have rendered everyday life in Mali increasingly impossible in recent weeks via a fuel blockade that has brought the west African country to its knees.

The head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries vowed on Wednesday Sudan would be unified by peace or through war and expressed sympathy after reports of mass killings by his group in the newly captured El-Fasher.

Two men arrested on Saturday in connection with the Louvre Museum heist have partially admitted their part in the raid, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed on Wednesday. The two men are suspected of being the ones who entered the Apollo Gallery to seize jewels, she told reporters.

The body of revered Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga arrived in Nairobi on Thursday from India where he died of a suspected heart attack. A large crowd gathered at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to greet the coffin, AFP reporters said.

Everyone is talking about stablecoins mdash;fast, borderless, revolutionary. They say it rsquo;s the future of money. Sounds incredible, right? Wrong. Let me tell you the truth: Africa cannot afford them.

France's highest administrative court has rejected an appeal by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, dealing a major setback to her efforts to remain eligible for the 2027 presidential race. The Council of State announced its decision on Wednesday, confirming the immediate enforcement of Le Pen's ineligibility sentence following her conviction earlie .

Placards and slogans against France that surfaced in demonstrations against impeached President Andry Rajoelina this week exposed deep resentment against the former colonial power. France out , Rajoelina and Macron out , said banners after French media reported that the president had fled on a French military plane as an army unit threw its we .

Former president Joseph Kabila rallied opponents of the Democratic Republic of Congo 39;s current government in Kenya 39;s capital on Wednesday, announcing a new movement to save his crisis-hit country.