•An airplane Last year was the safest ever for commercial air travel, despite a massive rebound in passenger flights, an airline industry group said today. The only fatal accident of a passenger plane was the crash of an ATR turboprop operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines during a domestic flight, killing 72 people, according to the […]
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s funeral is planned for Friday in a Moscow church, his allies said two weeks after his shock death in an Arctic prison. Authorities resisted handing Navalny’s body to his family for eight days, in what his team said was an attempt to “cover” up who was responsible for his death […]
•Malian flag Thirty-one people were killed in Mali yesterday and 10 others wounded when a bus travelling toward Burkina Faso fell off a bridge in the country’s southeast, the Transport ministry said. It added that the accident occurred at around 5:00 pm (1700 GMT) at a bridge crossing the Bagoe river. “A bus that was […]
•Britain’s Prince Harry Prince Harry will find out today whether he has won his case against the UK government after his taxpayer-funded protection was removed when he quit royal duties. The youngest son of King Charles III sensationally left Britain in 2020 with his wife Meghan, eventually settling in California in the United States, reports ...
•Rat Sri Lanka’s national airline today blamed a rat for grounding a plane for three days, sparking chaotic delays and fears it will scare off investors for the cash-strapped carrier. The stowaway rodent was spotted enjoying the SriLankan Airlines Airbus A330 flight from the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday, triggering an aircraft search t...
•PM Mohammad Shtayyeh Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today announced the resignation of his government which rules parts of the occupied West Bank. “I submit the government’s resignation to Mr President (Mahmud Abbas),” Shtayyeh said, adding it comes in the wake of the “developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Stri...
The Qatar authorities yesterday reversed their earlier stand on the hosting of a business and investment forum with a Nigerian delegation during the forthcoming visit of President Bola Tinubu to Doha. President Tinubu is scheduled to be in Doha, the Qatari capital, on a two-day official visit, between March 2 and 3, reports The Nation. [&helli...
•Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny The body of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed to his mother, more than a week after he died in an Arctic prison colony, his spokesperson said yesterday. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic, died on February 16 in one of Russia’s toughest prisons in [&h...
•ECOWAS leaders in Abuja yesterday The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to lift some sanctions on Niger Republic, Mali and Guinea. The resolution was taken at the extraordinary summit on the peace, political, and security situation in the ECOWAS sub-region in Abuja yesterday, reports Channels TV. While the region...
•ECOWAS logo The Economic Community of West African States is expected to suspend all sanctions imposed on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, who are under military rule after juntas overthrew the civilian governments of all three countries. This is as President Bola Tinubu, who serves as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States, [&helli...
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