In a tragic incident, Anthony Nephew, a 46-year-old man from Minnesota, fatally shot himself, his wife, ex-partner, and two children following the election of President-elect Donald Trump on November 5. Authorities revealed that Nephew had expressed frustration over Trump’s victory. Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa stated that the shooter had a history of mental health…
Seven terrorists were killed and three others injured in separate operations by the Pakistani military across the country, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The ISPR, the media wing of Pakistan’s military, said one incident happened in the North Waziristan tribal district where a terrorist was killed in an intelligence-based operation. The second incident took…
Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a high-ranking official in the Equatorial Guinean government, finds himself at the center of a significant sex scandal. The controversy came to light during a fraud investigation, which led authorities to search Engonga’s home and office. He serves as the director general of the Anti-graft National Agency for Financial Investigation (ANIF). During…
Israel’s military intends to retaliate “significantly” and swiftly against Iran after the latter fired around 180 missiles at Israel’s territory, but it is still weighing what form this reprisal will take, according to a source briefed on the matter. Israel is currently examining a range of options to strike back at Iran, and it is…
Türkiye has announced that it will present evidence regarding the killing of a Turkish-American woman by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. The evidence would be presented to both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot during a protest against an Israeli settlement…
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced an American businessman, Marco Antonio Ramirez, to 74 years in prison over his involvement in a $1.2 million US visa scam. Justice Dada handed down the verdict after she found the foreigner guilty of a 16-count charge of defrauding…
Following the latest Ukrainian drone attacks on the Moscow region, the Kremlin sees its war policy confirmed. “We must continue the special military operation to protect ourselves from such incidents,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to Russian state news agencies, using the government’s official term for its war against Ukraine. Earlier on Tuesday, the…
The conflict in Syria which has been going on since 2011, is threatening to escalate again, a United Nations commission has warned. Syria is experiencing “new waves of hostilities”, said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN’s Syria Commission of Inquiry. He was speaking on Tuesday as he presented his latest report to the UN Human…
The EFCC on Wednesday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that the detained Binance Holdings Limited’s executive, Tigran Gambaryan, rejected the medical intervention by the State House Clinic. Counsel for the EFCC, Ekele Iheanacho, told Justice Emeka Nwite while opposing Gambaryan’s second bail application moved by his lawyer, Mark Mordi SAN. Iheanacho, who drew…
Congolese Interior Minister, Jacquemain Shabani on Tuesday said 129 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attempted prison break. On his X account, Shabani said authorities shot dead 24 inmates of the Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa, while dozens of others were suffocated or trampled to death. According to…
