Ghana has abolished its Covid-19 “Health Recovery Levy” and reduced its value-added tax in a bid to bolster economic growth, the government said Thursday.

The billionaire president has faced pressure from the right wing of his party, including firebrand ally Marjorie Taylor Greene, to spend more time on the “home front” instead of foreign trips and peace negotiations.

“Everything will be done to prevent any new attack and to ruthlessly punish those who would dare to attempt it,” he said.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release on bond of hundreds of undocumented migrants arrested in Chicago in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Pope Leo XIV has revealed his four favourite films ahead of a special audience with Hollywood celebrities and Oscar-winning directors at the Vatican.

“I guess I have to, why not?” said the president in his first public comments on the potential for legal action.

Her son and co-defendant, Noureddin, criticised the trial as a “legal farce” in an interview with AFP last week.

Russia on Tuesday offered to discuss with the United States allegations from Washington that it had carried out secret underground nuclear tests, in a bid to ease tensions between the world’s top two nuclear superpowers.

Niger and Libya share a 342-kilometre (210-mile) border across a vast desert region home to armed groups hostile to the junta and known for the smuggling of migrants, weapons and drugs.

He is being investigated on charges including financing terrorism and inciting violence aimed at endangering the state.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed a suicide bombing that killed at least 12 people in Islamabad on Tuesday, a rare attack by the militant group on the country’s capital.

Warren Buffett on Monday confirmed plans to step down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO at year’s end, but said he will keep a “significant amount” of shares in the company for now.

But Trump abruptly cut in to respond, saying: “Do you think the French are better, really? I will tell you, I’m not so sure.”

The group claimed that OpenAI had “systematically” used its repertoire to train AI models, according to an earlier court statement.

President Donald Trump’s administration may have steered clear of this year’s UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon, but the conference’s second day on Tuesday is nonetheless set to be dominated by the governors of California and New Mexico.