The death toll from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island on Friday has reached at least 35 people and injured hundreds, the latest reports said. The Indonesian meteorological agency has warned of aftershocks, possibly strong enough to trigger a tsunami. No tsunami warning was issued. Darno Majid, chief of the disaster agency in […]
The US Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for the first execution of a woman in decades — despite doubts about her mental state — after the government of President Donald Trump pushed for the application of the death penalty . Lisa Montgomery , 52, is set to receive a lethal injection later Wednesday in […]
Italian police on Tuesday arrested 16 people as they smashed a Nigerian mafia drugs ring in the northern city of Trento, ANSA News Agency of Italy reported on Tuesday. The report also said police carried out 20 raids in the regions of Trentino, Veneto and Lombardy in the operation, codenamed ‘Underground’. Police said the gang […]
Uganda’s communications regulator has ordered the shutdown of social media and messaging applications, ahead of a highly-charged election on Thursday. The vote will come after one of the bloodiest campaigns in years, as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni seeks a sixth term against popstar-turned-MP Bobi Wine, who has managed to fire up a youthful population that […]
Ugandan presidential candidate, Bobi Wine , has accused the army of raiding his home and arresting his security guards along with others found in the premises . The Member of Parliament representing Kyadondo County East constituency disclosed this in a tweet shared on January 12, 2021, weeks after he was arrested. “ The army has […]
Indonesian divers returned Tuesday to a wreckage-littered seabed off Jakarta in their hunt for the black boxes that will likely be key to unlocking the mystery of why a passenger jet carrying 62 people fell from the sky. Some 3,600 personnel are taking part in the recovery effort, assisted by dozens of boats and helicopters […]
South Korea’s deputy foreign minister met his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Sunday, state news agency IRNA reported, days after Iran seized a South Korean-flagged tanker in sensitive Gulf waters. Choi Jong-Kun’s meeting with Abbas Araghchi came after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had seized the South Korean-flagged Hankuk Chemi in Gulf waters. The […]
American actor and former governor of California , Arnold Schwarzenegger, has declared Donald Trump the “ worst president ever” as he compared the Capitol riots to the Night of Broken Glass . On Sunday, the Terminator star released a scathing video slamming Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, in an attempt […]
New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday it was responding with urgency to a “malicious” breach of one of its data systems, a third-party file sharing service that stored “sensitive information”. Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr said the breach had been contained and the system was taken offline but it would take time […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has denied reports making the rounds that its Embassy in France is involved in passport racketeering. In a press statement, the Ministry’s spokesperson, Ferdinand Nwonye, said there was no iota of truth in the report. “For the records, the Embassy of Nigeria in France is not engaged in such act. […]
