President Donald Trump has overturned decades of US policy by saying it is time to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. In a tweet, Mr Trump declared that the plateau was of “critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and regional stability”. Israel annexed the Golan in 1981 …

  The Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it will not recognise the Member of Parliament-elect, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, claiming the by-election was a “sham”. A by-election held last Thursday following the death of Emmanuel Kwabena Kyeremateng Agyarko saw his widow Lydia Seyram Alhassan elected as his successor. But the NDC in the …