While this raised questions about diplomatic norms, Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Bagbin, showcased remarkable diplomatic skill to defuse potential tension. Diplomatic Protocols and ...

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TOKYO — Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died ...

Speaking about the bombing to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK in 2019, he said: ‘On the day the bomb dropped, I heard a voice asking for help. ‘When I walked over and held out my hand ...

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President-elect, John Dramani Mahama has urged the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament to nominate the current Speaker, Alban Bagbin, for the role of Speaker in the ...

President-elect John Dramani Mahama has directed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary leadership to propose the Right Honourable Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as Speaker for the ...

Verulamium was not entirely abandoned following the withdrawal of the Roman legions in 409, but became instead the focus of a Christian cult to a martyr: St Alban. We know of his history by circuitous ...

who is the leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), instructed members of the party’s parliamentary caucus to nominate Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin as their candidate for Speaker of ...