A Chinese student and video game streamer has died from possible exhaustion after livestreaming for five nights in a row. He was a final-year student at Pingdingshan Vocational and Technical College in Henan, with the surname Li. He was hired by a Chinese media company to stream as part of an internship requirement so he […]
•A helicopter carrying two Israeli-Russian hostages taken by Hamas militants A senior Hamas official said yesterday the Islamist movement was ready to release all the Israeli soldiers it is holding captive in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, amid negotiations to extend a truce over Gaza. Hamas official and former Gaza hea...
•Peter Nygard Peter Nygard, the founder of one of Canada’s largest clothing brands, was found guilty today on four counts of sexual assault, a court announced in Toronto. The jury, which deliberated for five days, also acquitted the Finnish-Canadian Nygard on one count of sexually assaulting one of the women who testified at the seven-week [&h...
•Kanyeyachukwu Fourteen-year-old Nigerian painter, Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo Okeke, who lives with autism, has been honoured with the Young CEO Award by Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of the City of Newark, New Jersey, the United States of America (USA). The mayor honoured Kanyeyachukwu during the 8th Annual Nigerian Independence Day celebration and the g...
•Joe Biden Israel has agreed to daily four-hour military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes, the White House said yesterday, even as President Joe Biden said there was no chance of a full ceasefire. Biden has been pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for longer breaks in the fighting after more than a month [&helli...
•Luis Diaz Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group today freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, according to live TV footage. After being handed over by the rebels to a humanitarian mission, Luis Manuel Diaz arrived by helicopter in the northeastern city of Valledupar, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from his [&...
•Robot A man has been crushed to death by a robot that mistook him for a box, according to South Korean media. The worker in his 40s was inspecting the robot’s sensor at a warehouse for agricultural products in South Gyeongsand province. According to the Yonhap news agency, the robot was lifting boxes of bell […]
•Olaf Scholz Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor explained yesterday that no fewer than 14,000 Nigerians living in Germany risk deportation. Scholz said this during a meeting with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja yesterday, where he attributed it to the spike in the number of Nigerians seeking asylum, with a great number of them without identific...
•PM Rishi Sunak Possessing laughing gas to get a psychoactive high became illegal in Britain on Wednesday, with serial offenders facing up to two years in prison and dealers up to 14 years. The sale of small canisters of nitrous oxide has proliferated in recent decades, as young people in particular inhale the drug recreationally […]
•Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga A South African minister said today she had a gun pointed at her head before being robbed and her bodyguards’ weapons stolen in what police called an “unprecedented incident.” Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga said she was unhurt but traumatised by the ordeal in the early hours of yesterday, reports AFP “I am [...