•Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Severn class lifeboat, the City of London II More than 1,000 migrants were rescued in a single week off the coast of West Africa as they attempted the dangerous Atlantic migration route to Europe, charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. The 1,046 people were travelling in seven boats, all of [&he...
•Smoke rises over the capital city of Kyiv following a Russian air attack on Ukraine, today Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv after the expiration of a three-day halt in attacks for a visit to the Ukrainian capital by US envoys, Ukraine’s emergency service said late yesterday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the three-day halt in [&hell...
•Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex King Charles III today said his son Harry and the prince’s wife Meghan are not to be considered “working members of the royal family” after they moved back to Britain from the United States. The couple left Britain and quit royal […]
While much of the world is open to tourists, there are places where visitors are either completely prohibited from entering or allowed access only under very strict conditions. The reasons vary. Some locations are protected because of fragile ecosystems or ancient archaeological remains, while others are restricted for security, religious or c...
•German Chancellor Friedrich Merz German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today he was “deeply shocked” after his centre-right party suffered a heavy loss in a state poll to the far-right AfD, but vowed to push on with reforms. “This is the heaviest electoral defeat the (CDU party) has suffered in years, in decades,” a crestfallen Merz […...
•Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham Britain’s government today condemned demonstrators who tried to block the arrival of migrants in a part of southern England that authorities fear is becoming a new route for small boat crossings. Thousands of asylum seekers have crossed the Channel on rudimentary vessels in recent years, usually betw...
•The tail section of the ill-fated cargo plane at Miami International Airport, yesterday At least five people were killed when an Amazon cargo plane overshot a runway after it landed Sunday at Miami International Airport, crashed into vehicles and caught fire, officials said. Miami-Dade County fire chief Ray Jadallah told reporters that in ad...
A Nigerian woman, who travelled from Lagos to Doha, Qatar, has reportedly been unreachable for more than 48 hours after arriving in the country, raising concerns among her family and prompting inquiries by authorities and airline officials. The woman, 37, boarded Qatar Airways flight QR1408 from Lagos International Airport to Doha on Tuesday, ...
•Late Igho Ubiribo A 43-year-old Nigerian-British businessman and social media influencer, Igho Ubiribo, has died after undergoing a penis enlargement procedure during a holiday in Thailand. A UK coroner ruled that the cosmetic procedure caused a fatal pulmonary embolism, reports Daily Mail on Saturday. Ubiribo, also known by the nicknames “Ti...
•Trump, Putin and Zelensky US President Donald Trump said yesterday he is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv with a plan to end more than four years of war in Ukraine. The move marks Washington’s latest bid to break a diplomatic stalemate in Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II, […]

