WORLD NEWS: SAUDI STOPS FAMILY, TOURIST VISAS FOR INDIAN NATIONALS, OTHERS
Agency Report A year after hundreds of worshippers died in the sweltering heat, Saudi Arabia is intensifying its crackdown on unregistered pilgrims for the Hajj...
THREE DEAD, DOZENS INJURED IN GERMANY HOSPITAL FIRE
By Aishat Momoh. O. An overnight blaze that broke out in a room in a hospital’s geriatric ward in Hamburg, Germany, killed three people and...
WORLD NEWS: ISRAEL DENIES INVOLVEMENT AS GAZA RESCUERS SAY 31 KILLED NEAR AID SITE
Agency Report Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli gunfire killed at least 31 Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution site on Sunday, with both the...
EX-MARINE CHARGED AFTER CAR PLOUGHS INTO LIVERPOOL TITLE CELEBRATION CROWD, INJURING 79
By Aishat Momoh. O. A former British Royal Marine, Paul Doyle, appeared before Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Friday to face multiple charges after allegedly driving...
FRANCE TO BAN SMOKING IN CHILD-FRIENDLY OUTDOOR SPACES STARTING JULY 2025
By Aishat Momoh. O. France will implement a sweeping new anti-smoking regulation from July 1, 2025, banning smoking in outdoor areas where children are likely...
BREAKING: MAURITANIA’S SIDI OULD TAH ELECTED NEW AfDB PRESIDENT
Agency Report Sidi Ould Tah, a former minister of economics from Mauritania, was chosen on Thursday to take over as president of the African Development...
KENYA STUDENT ON TRIAL FOR FAKE CAPTION OF RUTO ‘FUNERAL’
Agency Report On Thursday, a Kenyan university student appeared in court on charges of disseminating misleading information via a phoney photo caption that claimed President...
WORLD: THOUSANDS STORM AID WAREHOUSE IN GAZA AS HUNGER CRISIS DEEPENS
As Israel and the UN exchanged blame for the worsening hunger crisis, thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on...
WORLD NEWS: FOUR KILLED AS NAVY PATROL PLANE CRASHES IN SOUTH KOREA
Agency Report According to authorities, all four occupants of a navy marine patrol jet perished in a crash in South Korea on Thursday. About six...
SOUTH AFRICAN COURT SENTENCES WOMAN TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR SELLING HER DAUGHTER
In a case that shocked the nation, a South African court sentenced a woman to life in jail on Thursday for kidnapping and selling her...