•Convicted former Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram Ecuador’s judiciary sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram and his son Jacobo to nine years and four months in prison yesterday in a corruption case linked to the sale of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. Bucaram, who was removed from office in 1997, heard the decision re...
•Ruins of the ill-fated ferry At least five people are dead, and 87 remain unaccounted for after a ferry fire erupted near a tourist hotspot in the Philippine province of Palawan, the country’s coast guard said today. “Based on the data we have right now on rescued (42) and the casualties (five), we still have […]
•North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and daughter Kim Ju Ae North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s only publicly known daughter and apparent successor is believed to have a younger sibling, South Korea’s spy agency said today, offering a more detailed view of the ruling family’s structure. Seoul’s spy agency has previously said Kim is […]...
Oil prices surged to the $100 mark early today as tensions between the United States and Iran escalated following fresh attacks on Iranian crude carriers and U.S. forces in Jordan. The latest escalation came after U.S. forces destroyed five more Iranian crude oil tankers, while Iran targeted U.S. forces in Jordan, reports AFP. The attacks [&he...
The United States imposed sanctions yesterday on “all remaining Iranian airlines” that have yet to face such penalties, as Washington pushes to step up economic pressure in its war with Tehran. The US Treasury Department said its latest action takes aim at “36 targets for supporting Iran’s aviation sector, which the regime uses to move [&helli...
•Late Igho Ubiribo and his wife, Danielle Simba Allen Nigerian-British businessman and social media influencer, Igho Ubiribo, had undergone five penis enlargement procedures at a Bangkok clinic before his death, Thai health authorities have revealed. The Department of Health Service Support, under Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, disclose...
•Grounded British Airways planes at Heathrow airport Terminal 5 in west London, yesterday Almost 1,100 flights to and from UK airports were cancelled yesterday due to what the country’s air traffic control service called a technical issue, in the latest glitch to spark travel chaos. A total of 1,055 flights to and from British airports [&hell...
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump has sparked fury by posting a map that seemingly showed Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico and the Caribbean as part of the United States. Yesterday’s post — the latest of several from Trump with an outlandish territorial design — came amid a flurry of around 100 messages on his Truth […]
•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...
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