The European Union (EU) has introduced retaliatory tariffs on US goods as a top official launched a fresh attack on President Donald Trump’s trade policy. The duties on €2.8bn (£2.4bn) worth of US goods came into force on Friday. Tariffs have been imposed on products such as bourbon whiskey, motorcycles and orange juice. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said duties …

The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a “cesspool of political bias”. The “hypocritical and self-serving” body “makes a mockery of human rights”, said US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley. Ms Haley last year accused the council of “chronic anti-Israel bias” and said the US was reviewing its membership. Formed in 2006, …

First lady Melania Trump will not be joining President Donald Trump on his upcoming trips to the G7 summit in Quebec and the highly anticipated summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore, her spokeswoman told ABC News. The 48-year-old first lady has not been seen in public since May 10, when she and the president welcomed home three American detainees from …

Donald Trump probably has the power to pardon himself in the Russia collusion affair but does not intend to do so, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani says. A special counsel is investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and whether Mr Trump obstructed justice. The question of self-pardon arose after the New York Times published a letter to the counsel from …

Five days after their arrival, chemical weapons inspectors in Syria will be given access to an alleged attack site on Wednesday, Russia says. The team has been in the country since Saturday but has been prohibited from entering the town of Douma. US officials have raised concerns that Russia may have tampered with the site while inspectors were denied access. …

   By Frank Amponsah  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has affirmed in no uncertain terms, that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America.” According to President Akufo-Addo, “the United States of America has not made any request for such consideration and, consistent with our established foreign policy, …

US President Donald Trump has instructed officials to consider a further $100bn (£71.3bn) of tariffs against China, in an escalation of a tense trade stand-off. These would be in addition to the $50bn worth of US tariffs already proposed on hundreds of Chinese imports. The proposal comes after China retaliated to that by threatening tariffs on 106 key US products. …

The president Nana Akufo-Addo has condemned what he says is the “unspeakable hypocrisy” that has attended the consideration and ratification of the 2018 Ghana-US military cooperation agreement. In a televised broadcast to break his long silence on the matter, the president said some front-line politicians are wallowing in the “largesse of the US and at the same time promoting anti-American …

Former Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Emmanuel Bombande, has condemned the President’s assertion that some critics of the 2018 Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Ghana and the United States are promoting anti-American sentiments. President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took a swipe at politicians “who secretly wallow in the largesse of the United States of America, whilst, at the same time, promote anti-American sentiments …

  By Frank Amponsah  Documents in the possession of the New Crusading Guide has finally exposed the hypocrisy of the former president, John Dramani Mahama and the NDC government under whose watch the controversial military deal between Ghana and the United States was signed and approved. The said documents plainly suggests that ex-president John Mahama gave approval for Ghana to …