http://www.myjoyonline.com/pages/rss/site_world.xml Visit Myjoyonline.com for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana en-us Joy FM Online 2009 2013-05-17T12:05:01+01:00 Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng Ghana News http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106206.php A quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106206.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106204.php The leaders of Turkey and the United States are huddling in Washington on Thursday over how to handle the Syrian civil war, the raging conflict that has left an estimated 80,000 people dead and a few million displaced. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106204.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106201.php A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year in order to promote nation-building. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106201.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106199.php Nigeria's army begins operations against militant Islamists after states of emergency were declared in three north-eastern states. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106199.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106194.php Nigeria's army has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew across the north-eastern state of Adamawa to curb attacks by militant Islamists. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106194.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106127.php The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and condemning the government's use of heavy weapons. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106127.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106109.php An American trying to dribble a football from Seattle to Brazil in time for the 2014 Brazil World Cup has died less than two weeks into his trip. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106109.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/106103.php US President Barack Obama has said the federal tax agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny was "intolerable and inexcusable". http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/106103.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106080.php Protesters in Kenya have released a pig and about a dozen piglets outside parliament to show their anger at newly elected MPs demanding higher salaries. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106080.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106044.php A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel eating the heart of a dead soldier is condemned by the opposition and Human Rights Watch. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106044.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106037.php Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states after a spate of deadly attacks by Islamist militant groups. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106037.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/105970.php Forty mentally ill patients escaped on Sunday from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after overpowering guards, police say. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/105970.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/105969.php A Philadelphia doctor is convicted of the first-degree murders of three babies born alive and killed with scissors in illegal, late term abortions. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/105969.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105932.php The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105932.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105911.php Abdul Aziz believes he was standing right next to a shooter Sunday when gunmen opened fire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, injuring 19 people. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105911.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105894.php An illegal immigrant in Italy has gone on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passer-by and wounding four others, police say. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105894.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/105893.php Africa loses twice as much money through tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers as it gets from donors, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan warns. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/105893.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105892.php Syria says it was not behind two car bombs which claimed the lives of 46 people in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli on Saturday. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105892.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105852.php Pakistan's election commission said it had been unable to carry out "free and fair" polls in Karachi and that voting would be re-run in some areas. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105852.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105851.php Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan military dictator who ruled his country during one of the bloodiest phases of its civil war, was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity Friday for the systematic massacre of more than 1,700 Maya people. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105851.php