WhatsApp Restricted In Equatorial Guinea Amid Sex Scandal
The Equatorial Guinean government has banned its citizens from using WhatsApp to download and share multimedia files over mobile data. This decision was followed by the guidelines that the country’s government gave to telecommunications operators when it urged them to implement measures to restrict access to inappropriate content. The country’s Director General, National Financial Investigation Agency, Baltasar Engonga, was enmeshed in a...
Russian Court Jail Engineer 16 years Over Spying For Ukraine
After being guilty of providing information to Ukraine, an engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer received a 16-year prison sentence for treason. The regional court in Sverdlovsk said Daniel Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in Russia’s Urals when Russia’s FSB security services detained him and his wife Viktoria in 2023. Uralvagonzavod is one of...
UK Government Set To Increase University Tuition Fees In 2025
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is planning to increase tuition fees in universities in the country effective from September 2025. The increase is going to be the first in eight years. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is expected to announce the tuition fees rise in line with the Retail Price Index inflation. READ ALSO: Iranian Pilot, General Dies In Chopper Accident The fee...
Iranian Pilot, General Dies In Chopper Accident
During an anti-terror operation, a helicopter crashed, killing a general and pilot from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, according to state media. The “ultra-light gyroplane” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “had an accident while conducting combat operations” in a border area, the IRNA news agency said. It said the crash happened in Sirkan, a city in Sistan-Baluchistan province, and identified the...
Iranian General, Pilot Killed In Helicopter Crash
A helicopter crash during an anti-terror operation in the southeastern part claimed the live of a general and pilot in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The “ultra-light gyroplane” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “had an accident while conducting combat operations” in a border area, the IRNA news agency said. It said the crash happened in Sirkan, a city in Sistan-Baluchistan province,...
225 Illegal Miners Arrested By South African Authorities
South African police reported that 225 illegal miners had been arrested after being evicted from a mine shaft because they were without food. The miners, known locally as “zama zamas” (“those who try” in Zulu), resurfaced from a mine in Orkney, a gold mining town in the Klerksdorp district of North West Province. A police spokesperson told AFP on Sunday that...
Iran Vows Response To Israel, US After Attacks
Iran has vowed retaliation for attacks by Israel and the US after a pro-Iranian coalition in Iraq claimed a drone strike on the Israeli resort of Eilat. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq is among pro-Iran groups drawn into more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Days before the presidential election in Israel’s...
Ukraine’s Kyiv Comes Under Russian Attack
According to Ukraine, Kyiv was heavily targeted by drones overnight, as evidenced by new explosions heard in the capital and other areas. “Unfortunately, the attack by Russian drones caused damage and casualties in various districts of Kyiv,” President Vladimir Zelensky said. He said that the “constant terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities prove that the pressure on Russia and its accomplices is...
Head Of Guinea Junta Elevates Self To Army General
Mamadi, the head of Guinea's junta, has become an army general, marking the creation of the country's powerful military forces following the coup. Doumbouya, 43, seized power by force in September 2021 by overthrowing President Alpha Conde, who had placed the then-colonel in charge of an elite force tasked with protecting the head of state from such coups. The military leader...
Israeli Forces Confirms Death Of Two Senior Hamas Officials
Senior Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab was killed by an Israeli military airstrike on Friday that targeted his vehicle in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Kassab, reportedly one of the last remaining high-ranking Hamas members involved in coordinating regional alliances, was killed alongside fellow Hamas official Ayman Ayesh. Hamas issued a statement mourning Kassab’s death, though sources within the organization clarified that...
