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ADDRESS BY H.E. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA TO THE 68TH UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Thursday September 26, 2013 Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a heavy heart that I address you today. Before I left Ghana to attend this assembly, I learned of the terrorist attack that took place in Nairobi, Kenya. I was shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the many lives that were lost to those senseless and cowardly acts of violence. As the death toll increased, so too did my grief, knowing that each additional number symbolized one more human life. Those numbers symbolized individuals who may have been strangers to you or to me but were of prime significance in the lives of the people who loved them: parents, children, husbands, wives, friends, colleagues. Soon enough, I got word that one of the people massacred was a person who held significance in my life and in the lives ...

Michelle Obama's ID details hacked from data brokers The social security numbers of Michelle Obama and many others were stolen from data brokers. Hackers stole millions of social security numbers by cracking open the networks of large US data brokers, reveals an investigation. The ID details of US First Lady Michelle Obama and many other famous people were exposed by the hack attack. Journalist Brian Krebs tracked the information back to hackers who ran an online market for confidential data. He found they got their data by compromising computers sitting on the data brokers' corporate networks. Deep access In March, Krebs, as well as the FBI and US Secret Service, started looking into how the exposed.su website was getting hold of social security numbers and other details of many famous Americans. The mysterious website, which has now been closed down, published confidential information about Bill Gates, Beyonce Knowles, Jay-Z, Asht...

25-year-old woman found hanging on tree. Miss Sadia Salifu, a 25-year-old seamstress apprentice, was found hanging on a cocoa tree near Nkawkaw–Agbogbloshie market. According to her uncle, Alhaji Abdul Salam, the deceased left home last Saturday but did not return until a relative at Nkawkaw informed him of her death. He told the Ghana News Agency that Ms Salifu was befriending a driver at Nkawkaw who approached the family that he wanted to marry her but they declined as he was not a Muslim. A police source, who pleaded anonymity, said they had information that a young lady had hanged herself on a cocoa tree along the railway line near the Nkawkaw-Agbogbloshie market and went there. He said they detected some blood stains under the cocoa tree and also saw some mud in her dress which indicated that there was a struggle before being hanged. Source: GNA

Westgate attack: Interpol seeks Samantha Lewthwaite's arrest Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite at Kenya's request. Ms Lewthwaite is the widow of one of the four suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July 2005. Known colloquially as the "white widow", she has been linked with the Somali militant group al-Shabab. Source: BBC