LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, died in Moscow aged 66, after struggling with a chronic illness, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Darchiev “passed away suddenly,” the ministry said in a statement, describing him as an “exceptional professional.” “Alexander Darchiev served in one of the most demanding areas…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least eight people are dead and over a dozen others injured after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, according to New York City authorities. Firefighters and police officers working at the building collapse site spent the night sifting through debris at the construction site from the collapsed three story building. The “dangerous”…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indonesia’s vice president resigned Thursday as questions grew over his eligibility for the office after recent court rulings disputed his educational credentials. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the 39-year-old son of former President Joko Widodo, submitted his resignation to the leadership of the People’s Consultative Assembly, the country’s highest legislative body, at the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five young girls were killed, and 21 other students were injured after a bus taking them to school skidded off the road and plunged into a pond in Cambodia. At around 7:10 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Nov. 10, a bus traveling to the BELTEI International School crashed in Kandal province,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 64,000 Nigerians have fled their homes and crossed into neighbouring Niger Republic since the beginning of 2026 to escape escalating violence involving Islamist militants and armed criminal gangs, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said. The UN refugee agency, in a briefing issued on Tuesday, November…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 39 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Senegal, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) reports. The interior ministry said one person had been rescued, but the number of people still missing was yet to be established. The small wooden boat capsized between the capital,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has emerged on why DR Congo sentenced no fewer than sixty six soldiers to death. The soldiers were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for cowardice, mutiny and refusing to obey orders, local media report. The sentences followed a trial of 71 soldiers before a military court in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine foreigners have been arrested in South Africa after they were caught allegedly trying to leave the country to fight in the war between Russia and the Ukraine, police say. The group, aged between 20 and 26, were arrested in and around Johannesburg by a multidisciplinary team on Sunday evening. They…
