Three days of US-Iran face-to-face negotiations in Islamabad ended without agreement on Sunday night, and on Monday morning the US…
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Ghana clearing agents launch five-day strike at Tema and Takoradi ports — freight forwarders down tools until Friday
Ghana’s freight forwarders and licensed customs clearing agents began a five-day strike on Monday, halting duty payments at the country’s…
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Ghana inflation falls to 3.2% — record low after 15 straight months of decline as Bank of Ghana cuts rate to 14%
Ghana’s headline inflation rate has fallen to 3.2 percent in March 2026 — its lowest reading in over a decade…
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Wall Street’s biggest banks kick off Q1 earnings — Goldman reports today as the ‘fee machine’ roars back to life
The biggest U.S. banks begin reporting first-quarter 2026 earnings today, with Goldman Sachs leading off on Monday and JPMorgan Chase…
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Oil surges past $103 a barrel as US announces naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices blew past $100 a barrel on Sunday after President Donald Trump announced the United States will impose a…
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OpenAI targets $1 trillion IPO — $25 billion in revenue, $122 billion funding round, and a path to public markets
OpenAI is preparing for what could be the largest technology IPO in history. The company has crossed $25 billion in…
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Anthropic hits $30 billion annual run rate — surpassing OpenAI for the first time as enterprise AI spending explodes
Anthropic’s annualised revenue hit $30 billion in April 2026, surpassing OpenAI’s $25 billion for the first time and marking the…
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Pope Leo XIV begins historic 11-day Africa trip — first papal visit to Algeria, 600,000 expected at Cameroon Mass
Pope Leo XIV departed Rome today for a four-nation, 11-day apostolic journey to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea —…
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Orbán out after 16 years — Péter Magyar wins Hungary’s election with a two-thirds supermajority
Viktor Orbán’s era is over. Hungary’s longest-serving post-communist prime minister conceded defeat on Sunday night after Péter Magyar’s centre-right Tisza…
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Mahama nominates Ernst & Young’s Pamela Graham as Ghana’s first female Auditor-General
President John Dramani Mahama has nominated Pamela Graham, a senior partner at Ernst & Young, to lead the Ghana Audit…
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