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Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is optimistic that Ghana will get the approval of the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout by March this year.Ofori-Atta said a debt profiling deal from the Paris Club under the G20 Common Framework and a successful Domestic Debt Exchange Programme are prerequisite to getting approval from the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).“I’m confident that we’ll get approval for the IMF deal … we have a deadline of end of February for the Paris Club.”“So, we need to be able to do that and in between that we would have…

A Pennsylvania woman will serve two life sentences after pleading guilty to charges relating to the deliberate starvation and death of her girlfriend’s daughters who were found buried in the yard in 2021.Echo Butler, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring to commit first degree murder of her girlfriend’s two young daughters, Nicole, 6 and Jasmine, 4, in Lycoming County Court Friday evening.Butler will serve the sentences without the possibility of parole joining Marie Snyder, 33, the girls’ biological mother, who also entered a guilty plea for two charges of conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, theft by deception, and…

CNN  —  The past 12 months has forced European leaders to seriously rethink their approach to national security. If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has confirmed one thing, it’s that peace on the continent cannot be taken for granted. The status quo – decades of low spending and defense not being a policy priority – cannot continue. This is especially true in Germany, which has for years has spent far less on its military than many of its Western allies but is now reconsidering its approach to defense at home and abroad. Days after the invasion began last February, German Chancellor…

Security forces in Burkina Faso have rescued 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by suspected militant jihadists in the north of the country last week, state TV reports.In an unprecedented mass kidnapping, the victims were seized while gathering food in an area hit by an insurgency.They were found on a bus at a security checkpoint some 200km (125 miles) south of where they were taken, reports say.It is not clear if their captors have also been detained.On Friday night, state TV showed pictures of the children and women, some with babies on their backs, boarding a bus at…

Actress Riley Keough has landed in Memphis, on the eve of her mother Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral.Keough, 33, arrived in a private jet shortly after her grandmother Priscilla Presley and her former stepfather Michael Lockwood landed. Lockwood was Lisa Marie’s fourth and final husband, and the father of her 14-year-old twin daughters Harper and Finley. Keough’s father is Lisa Marie’s first husband, actor Danny Keough, who remained close to the troubled star and was living with her at the time of her death, performing CPR until paramedics arrived.The LA County Coroner announced on Tuesday that it would be deferring the results…

Seoul CNN  —  They have them, so we need them. That is the fundamental argument for South Koreans who want their country to develop its own nuclear weapons. It’s about the need to protect themselves from an aggressive northern neighbor that is already a nuclear power in all but name and whose leader Kim Jong Un has vowed an “exponential increase” in his arsenal. The counter-argument, which has has long stopped Seoul from pursuing the bomb, lies in the likely consequences. Developing nukes would not only upset the country’s relationship with the United States, it would likely invite sanctions that…

It is rare for people to admit to being unfaithful in their relationships, especially in public.But comedian Richard Kweku Asante, known in showbiz as Kalybos, did just that on television.He admitted to the host of The Doreen Avio Show on Joy Prime that he had previously cheated on his current partner.The comic actor was asked whether he had ever cheated on his partner before, and he responded, “Yes. The current one, yes.”The studio audience erupted in applause after hearing his confession, possibly because of his candour.“Oh yes. I am [in a relationship]. I happened to fall into one, and I like where…

Prosecutors have seized more classified materials after President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, was searched on Friday in a secret search that lasted almost 13 hours.The Department of Justice revealed how federal investigators found another six classified documents in what is now the fifth occasion similar documents have been retrieved. The president and first lady Jill Biden were not at their home when it was searched. The couple are spending the weekend at their other home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The Justice Department stated how it ‘took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting…

New York CNN  —  Most retailers are tripping over themselves to stay relevant by courting younger Millennial and Gen Z shoppers. Not Lands’ End. As it looks to grow its customer base, Lands’ End is bucking the trend by purposely embracing the “forgotten generation,” Gen Xers. They are the generation of consumers sandwiched between Baby Boomers, born in the years after World War II, and their children, Millennials, with the earliest born in the 1980s. “There was a strategy at a point in time where we were going to bring in Millennials,” Lands’ End CEO Jerome Griffith, who is retiring…

Ghana FA Communications Director Henry Asante Twum says the Football Association is yet to shortlist applications received for the vacant Black Stars head coach position.Reports went rife in the local media that the Ghana FA has shortlisted three coaches for the head coach.Hector Cuper, Steve McClaren and Chris Hughton have been reported to be shortlisted for the position, according to a report by Asempa FM.Reacting to the names by the Ghana FA Spokesperson Henry Asante Twum denied knowledge of the names reported in the media.”We haven’t made any shortlist and at the right time we will”, Henry said on State…