Hong Kong needs a controversial new security law to tackle “growing terrorism”, the territory’s security chief has said. John Lee said the city had become “shrouded in the shadow of violence”. After months of quiet, this weekend saw a fresh surge of protest after the government in Beijing proposed a security law that would radically change Hong Kong’s unique status. ...

Foreign visitors to Spain will no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July, the government has announced. It said the measure had been finalised in a cabinet meeting on Monday. Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya had previously said the requirement would be lifted in July, without giving a date. The news comes as the UK government prepares ...

Lufthansa has agreed a rescue deal worth €9bn (£8bn) with the German government that saves it from collapse. The German airline has been severely affected by a decline in travel due to the coronavirus and closed its budget airline Germanwings in April. The German government will take a 20% stake in the firm, which it intends to sell by the end ...

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO). He’s among the 34-member executive board who will serve a three-year term for the organisation. The announcement which was made on the Health Ministry’s Facebook page indicated that the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tredos Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, his Vice-Chairs, ...

Nana Ayimedu Obrempong III, Krontihene of Adjena has called for collaboration between traditional rulers and security agencies to fight human trafficking through unapproved routes during the coronavirus pandemic season. He said there were a lot of unapproved routes at the borders, people were trafficked or smuggled, which was dangerous in this coronavirus season,as such persons could be coronavirus positive. He ...

Over 300 Ghanaian Canadians who were stranded in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic were flown to Toronto on Tuesday, May 19 night by the Canadian government on a special flight.Ethopian Airline plane was arranged by the Canadian Mission in Accra to fly those Ghanaian Canadians directly from Accra to Toronto after an abortive attempt to repatriate them on April 30.The Ghanaian Canadian ...

An Accra High Court has set June 23, 2020 to rule on an application seeking to restrain the government from obtaining the personal information of mobile subscribers for purposes of contact tracing in the Covid-19 pandemic fight in the country. The application seeks to put the exercise on hold until the determination of a substantive suit challenging Executive Instrument (EI ...

The 245 Ghanaians illegally living in Kuwait who are expected to be deported back to Ghana today have arrived at Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport in a Kuwaiti aircraft. Starr News sources at the airport say the deportees arrived a short while ago and are undergoing arrival processes. Ghana’s Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah revealed the news of ...

Negotiations remain the only way to overcome the ongoing political deadlock in Venezuela, especially given the potentially far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday. “Venezuela is mired in a deepening protracted crisis that only Venezuelans can resolve,” said Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. Despite significant international facilitation ...

The Auditor-General has once again revealed a harrowing tale of payroll fraud involving 21 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) which has resulted in the state losing GH¢467,634,792. According to the Auditor-General, a study conducted between June 2018 and January 2020, discovered that 7,823 ‘ghosts’ names were on the public sector payroll of the MDAs. Contained in a report presented to ...