•Boat mishap At least nine people died after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the Drina River separating Serbia and Bosnia today, officials said, as a search for others continued, reports AFP. Several people are thought to be missing after the boat carrying around two dozen migrants turned over near the border town of Ljubovija […]...
•Sri Lanka President, Ranil Wickremesinghe Sri Lanka’s top court found President Ranil Wickremesinghe guilty of “unlawful conduct” today for indefinitely delaying local polls seen as an unofficial referendum on his handling of the economy. Since Wickremesinghe enjoys immunity while in office, the judgement carries no immediate legal consequenc...
•Bolt Challenge Nigerians and South Africans’ online debacle took a new dimension this morning after both divides engaged in another supremacy battle. Citizens from two countries went for each others’ jugulars by ordering e-hailing drivers from opposing countries in the comfort of their homes, reports The PUNCH. While South Africans began the ...
•Children at dump site in Gaza The Gaza Strip’s first recorded polio case in 25 years has health workers and aid agencies grappling with the steep obstacles to conducting mass vaccination in the war-torn Palestinian territory. Unrelenting air strikes by Israel more than 10 months into its war against Gaza rulers Hamas, restrictions of aid [&he...
The savage rape and murder of a seven-year-old Ethiopian girl has sparked outrage in the country, with many branding her assailant’s punishment as too lenient. By today, more than 240,000 people had signed an online petition protesting at the 25-year prison sentence meted out to the man convicted of killing Heaven Awot in an attack […]...
•World’d oldest person, Tomiko Itooka A 116-year-old Japanese woman who used to be a mountaineer is set to be named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records, a research group said today, following the death of a 117-year-old Spanish woman earlier this week. Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908, lives in […]
•Crocodile A crocodile killed a woman bathing in a river in eastern Indonesia, police and locals said today, with villagers later recovering parts of her body from the slaughtered animal. Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill humans, reports AFP. Halima Rahakbauw, 54, was swimming in a river in [&hel...
•Former US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible Donald Trump will hold a rally outdoors today in North Carolina, the former US president’s first open-air campaign event since he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt at an open-air appearance one month ago. Security precautions are being boosted for the afternoon rally scheduled at an av...
•Former US President Barack Obama and wife, Michelle As deafening cheers greeted Barack and Michelle Obama, Democrats could have been forgiven for thinking they had been transported 16 years back in time. But in 2024, the former US president and first lady were devoting their crowd-pleasing abilities towards putting another trailblazer in the ...
At least 28 Pakistani pilgrims en route to Iraq for an Islamic religious ritual were killed as their bus crashed in central Iran, state media reported early today. “A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned and caught fire in front of Dehshir-Taft checkpoint in the central province of Yazd on Tuesday night,” state TV reported. “28 […...
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