Bus Conveying Stranded Nigerians From Sudan Catches Fire
One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia caught fire in the early hours of Monday. Twenty-six buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12:am on Monday for Port Sudan. “One of the buses conveying some 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with a tag number...
Kenya Commences Autopsies On Bodies Of Cult Followers Who Allegedly Starved To Death
Forensic experts in Kenya on Monday commenced autopsies of over hundred corpses exhumed from mass graves linked to a pastor alleged to have mandated his members to starve to death to see Jesus. “Officially the process of post-mortem of the bodies starts immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside a hospital morgue in the coastal town of Malindi. “We are...
Ding Liren Becomes China’s First Male World Chess Champion
Ding Liren has become China's first men's world chess champion, after defeating Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ding, 30, won a rapid-play tiebreaker after 14 first-stage games at the World Chess Championship in Kazakhstan. He succeeds Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the five-time champion who said he was "not motivated" to defend his title. Carlsen accused a US opponent of cheating last year in a row that...
Ecuador Labels Criminal Gangs As Terrorists
Ecuador declared members of organized crime groups terrorists on Thursday, allowing the military to pursue them with greater freedom. In a meeting presided over by President Guillermo Lasso, the Public and State Security Council decided to take action. “We are currently experiencing an indiscriminate attack by organized crime, which has seen us as a weak country,” Security Secretary Wagner Bravo said. He...
11 Dead After Indonesia Boat Capsizes
A passenger boat carrying dozens of people capsized in western Indonesia, killing eleven people, an official reported on Friday. After the accident off the coast of western Riau province on Thursday afternoon, rescuers found 62 survivors and mostly found the bodies of women and children, according to a statement from the local search and rescue agency official Kukuh Widodo. “The capsized...
US To Open New Migrants Processing Centres In Colombia And Guatemala
The US has announced plans to open new migrant processing centres in Colombia and Guatemala as part of efforts to reduce undocumented immigration. The regional facilities will process thousands of claims a month, with pathways for legal migration expanded. The number of deportations for those ineligible to be in the US will also be doubled or tripled. The US is bracing for...
“Donald Trump Raped Me” – E Jean Carroll Tells New York Court
A former columnist suing Donald Trump over an alleged rape nearly 30 years ago has testified she launched the case "to try and get my life back". E Jean Carroll told the New York civil rape and defamation trial she had been unable to have a romantic life since the alleged assault. Ms. Carroll claims Mr. Trump accosted her in a...
Pope Francis Gives Women Historic Right To Vote At Meeting Of Bishops
The Pope will for the first time allow women to vote at an influential global meeting of bishops in October - a move that has been welcomed as a historic first. The new rules announced on Wednesday will give five religious sisters voting rights at the synod, which is a papal advisory body. In the past, women were only allowed to...
Tucker Carlson Breaks Silence After Fox News Exit
Tucker Carlson has broken his silence after his departure from Fox News in a video lashing out at "liars trying to silence" honest people. The short video was posted on Twitter two days after his exit. He did not share the reason for his departure or speak about his future plans. Fox News has said it and Carlson had agreed to...
80-Year-Old US President Biden Announces Re-election Bid
US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election in 2024 in the form of a three-minute video. In a video released early Tuesday, Biden, 80, framed next year’s contest as a fight against Republican extremism, implicitly arguing he needed more time to fully realize his vow to restore the nation’s character. “When I ran for president four years...
