Banjul. — The Gambia yesterday banned imports of frozen chicken legs after expelling one of the country’s most powerful business magnates for stocking groceries months past their sell-by date. Lebanese-Gambian multi-millionaire Hussein

JOHANNESBURG — Judgment on an application to have the ANCYL liquidated was reserved in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg yesterday. Acting Judge Tony Mundell said the matter was “novel”

Antigua — US and Venezuelan officials will meet soon for talks that could lead to the countries exchanging ambassadors for the first time since 2010, Venezuela’s foreign minister said late on Thursday. The meeting will be “in the next days, probably in

BUDAPEST. — With the River Danube reaching record levels at Hungary’s border regions yesterday morning and still rising, the country’s prime minister warned residents to prepare for the worst. The flood is expected to crest in

MOSCOW. — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina on Thursday announced their divorce. “It was our mutual decision, our marriage is over,” Putin said in an interview aired on a local TV news channel. TV footage showed the

San Jose — US President Barack Obama on Friday staunchly defended the sweeping US government surveillance of Americans’ phone and internet activity, calling it a modest encroachment on privacy that was necessary to defend

Durban — At least 151 people have been admitted to Durban hospitals in the past three months suffering from diarrhoea, resulting in the deaths

Berlin — Floodwaters spread towards northern Germany yesterday, while damage repair slowly got underway in the southern regions of the country. Polish regions in the south and near the capital

LA PAZ — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) said Wednesday it will open bidding for a world-class firm to quantify and certify the nation’s natural and

ACCRA — The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) yesterday disclosed that 124 suspected Chinese illegal miners were detained in Accra, the capital of the West African

Washington — A British newspaper reported that the United States has been collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans under a top secret court order. The Obama administration on