The 36-year-old man who was arrested for wielding a loaded and cocked pistol in a church building will be put before court today. Charles Antwi was picked up at the Ringway Gospel Centre branch of the Assemblies of God Church in Accra and is currently being detained by the National Security Secretariat. National Security sources told the Daily Graphic that investigations were ongoing to establish Antwi’s motive, as well as how he got access to the weapon. “Although we are still investigating, we intend to arraign him in order not to violate the rules which require us not to hold…
What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the university library for almost a century. The British Library’s expert on such manuscripts, Dr Muhammad Isa Waley, said this “exciting discovery” would make Muslims “rejoice”. The manuscript had been kept with a collection of other Middle Eastern books and documents, without being identified as one of the oldest fragments of the…
Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Islamic State group in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region, has been killed in a drone strike, the Afghan intelligence agency says. Saeed was killed in the strike in Achin in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Friday night, it said. Some 30 other IS militants were killed, the agency said. There has been no independent verification. A drone strike on Tuesday reportedly killed another top IS figure. The Afghan intelligence agency, the NDS, said Friday’s strike was carried out by US-led coalition forces in coordination with intelligence provided by the spy agency. Nato forces have…
