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Unofficial results in Israel’s second election in five months suggest it is too close to call, Israeli media say. Incumbent PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s party and that of his main challenger, Benny Gantz, are neck and neck with 32 seats each, the Kan public broadcaster says. A prime minister needs to command a 61-seat majority in parliament. The smaller Yisrael Beiteinu party appears to hold the balance of power. Official partial results are expected on Wednesday morning. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has been in office for 10 years and is vying to win a record fifth term in…

Senegal’s government says that women suffering from breast or cervical cancer will be offered free chemotherapy in public hospitals from the beginning of October. “We are relieved because these are the most common types of cancers affecting women here,” Dr Fatma Guenoun, president of the Senegalese Anti-Cancer League, told BBC News. For other types of cancers, 60% of the costs will be reimbursed, the government says. “This is an appropriate measure and will hopefully reduce mortality and help alleviate poverty,” a medical officer with the World Health Organization told BBC News. Dr Barango Prebo says other countries on the continent,…

Education Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says the collapses and fainting spells of some of the parents and students at the Black Star Square were staged. According to the Minister, some persons who wanted to mar the efforts of the Ministry to address the issues of placement of students into Senior High Schools bribed some people to feign exhaustion and collapse. “We opened the center at the independence square to address the needs of Ghanaians who want to go to school, but some evil people have decided to pay GHc 20 and GHc 50 to people to go there and stage fainting…

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter has been granted a temporary restraining order against younger brother Aaron after alleging he threatened to kill Nick’s pregnant wife. The singer, 39, said the legal move came “in light of Aaron’s increasingly alarming behaviour”. Aaron, 31, must now stay at least 100 feet (30 metres) away from Nick, his family and their Las Vegas home. In response, Aaron Carter said he was “astounded” by the accusations. “I do not wish harm to anyone, especially my family,” he went on. ‘Careful consideration’ “After careful consideration, my sister Angel and I regret that we were required to…

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter has been granted a temporary restraining order against younger brother Aaron after alleging he threatened to kill Nick’s pregnant wife. The singer, 39, said the legal move came “in light of Aaron’s increasingly alarming behaviour”. Aaron, 31, must now stay at least 100 feet (30 metres) away from Nick, his family and their Las Vegas home. In response, Aaron Carter said he was “astounded” by the accusations. “I do not wish harm to anyone, especially my family,” he went on. ‘Careful consideration’ “After careful consideration, my sister Angel and I regret that we were required to…

The Police in Kumasi have launched a manhunt for a 27-year-old Kofi Marfo who allegedly murdered two children suspected to be his at Apemso in the Ashanti region. The partially decomposed bodies of the two children were discovered in an uncompleted building by residents in the area last Sunday morning. Assembly member for the area reported the matter to the KNUST Police who moved in to the crime scene to pick up the bodies. Police say the remains were beyond recognition, for which reason that cannot confirm the two children were that of the man who has since vacated his…

The challenges facing the Senior High School computer placement system have forced Deputy Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to cut short his trip to the United Kingdom and race back to Ghana to help resolve the issues. Dr Adutwum who delivered the keynote address at the 2019 UKFIET conference, our sources say, will return to Accra Wednesday to offer the team on the ground  “solution to the challenges” that have created chaos. There were rumours that the deputy minister who is well-versed in the management of the system, has been sidelined in the placement exercise this year, with claims…

Senegal’s government says that women suffering from breast or cervical cancer will be offered free chemotherapy in public hospitals from the beginning of October. “We are relieved because these are the most common types of cancers affecting women here,” Dr Fatma Guenoun, president of the Senegalese Anti-Cancer League, told BBC News. For other types of cancers, 60% of the costs will be reimbursed, the government says. “This is an appropriate measure and will hopefully reduce mortality and help alleviate poverty,” a medical officer with the World Health Organization told BBC News. Dr Barango Prebo says other countries on the continent,…

A journalist and her crew bumped into me last week whilst sampling public views on the president’s fights against corruption. President Akufo Addo had earned many teasing nicknames like ‘Mr. Lomotey ‘, ‘King Promise’ and more recently ‘Clearing Agent’, allegedly engineering the exoneration of all his appointees who have come under corruption scandals after investigations. He has bragged a couple of times during public addresses that all his appointees who were accused of corruption have been cleared of all these misconducts by the appropriate bodies, but he added he has not been the clearing agent behind the veil I opined,…