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Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen is in a coma in hospital after a high-speed crash on stage one of the Tour of Poland.Dylan Groenewegen drifted across the road in the downhill sprint and he and compatriot Jakobsen collided just before the finish line in Katowice.Deceuninck-QuickStep’s Jakobsen, 23, hit the barriers before striking an official stood by the line.“His condition is very ...

A large blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has killed at least 70 people and injured more than 4,000 others, the health minister says.Videos show smoke billowing from a fire, then a mushroom cloud following the blast at the city’s port.Officials are blaming highly explosive materials stored in a warehouse for six years.President Michel Aoun tweeted it was “unacceptable” that ...

Netflix has reached an impressive milestone – it now has over 1 billion downloads of its Android app on Google Play. This number includes the cases when the application comes pre-installed but that doesn’t take away of the mind-blowingly high number of installs. Quick comparison with other streaming platforms reveals Amazon Prime is in the 100-500 million tier, Hulu is ...

OUTDOORING OF PROFESSOR NAANA JANE OPOKU-AGYEMANGPubliée par Volta1 TV sur Lundi 27 juillet 2020

The Foreign Affairs Ministry says it is working closely with the Interior, Local Government ministries and other bodies, to phase out birth certificate as one of the requirements for acquiring a passport.According to Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Mohammad Habibu Tijani, although the birth certificate has long been one of the requirements for acquiring a passport, it has not been a ...

A 20-year-old man, identified as Samuel Asare, is in the grips of the Akosombo Divisional Police Command in the Eastern Region for being in possession of items believed to be human parts. He was arrested after his father lodged a complaint to the police. According to a police report, the suspect’s father, Mr Amoako Attah, went to the suspect’s room ...

Parliament has approved a tax waiver of $3.2 million for the supply of KAPEK scientific mathematical instruments to be procured for use in the upcoming West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). According to a report of the Finance Committee of Parliament, WAEC has resolved to supply students with the instruments that will reduce the incidence of examination malpractice. Dr. ...

A Deputy Minister for Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has said closing schools for students to go home following COVID-19 cases is not advisable. The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations of Ghana in a press statement on Monday, July 13, 2020, called for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to be ...

Norwich City became the first club to be relegated from the Premier League this season as Michail Antonio scored all four goals to ease West Ham’s troubles near the bottom of the table. A seventh successive league defeat left Daniel Farke’s side anchored at the foot of the table, 13 points from safety with only three games – and a ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ho West Constituency of the Volta Region is calling on the public, especially people outside the constituency to disregard any report of intimidation by members of the Ghana Armed Forces who are deployed to help police the porous borders of the constituency during this COVID-19 pandemic. The NPP in a press conference ...