LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On October 23, 2026, a federal grand jury indicted Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, for failing to report to the Bureau of Prisons to serve a sentence. Ms Hall, a Nigerian citizen and U.S. permanent resident, was sentenced to eight years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jane Milazzo for…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people are dead after two helicopters collided in midair near an Oregon airport on Thursday, according to local authorities. The incident involved a 1995 Robinson R22 helicopter and a 2018 Airbus AS350B3 helicopter and occurred at approximately 2:10 p.m. local time Thursday near McMinnville, about 40 miles southwest of Portland, according…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, in a record theft that analysts pinned on North Korea and said could shake faith in digital assets. Cryptocurrency prices fell on the news, while Binance halted withdrawals and said it would cover the losses. About half the stolen assets…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Iraqi court sentenced seven French nationals to prison on Tuesday for belonging to the Islamic State group. Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council sentenced Lakhdar Sebouai, Adel Bou Aoun, Anas Abdul Rahman, Ziad Ahmad, Mehdi Sida and Benjamin Van Han to life imprisonment, which under Iraqi law is equivalent to 20 years. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, has said a recent operation targeting international cybercrime networks resulted in nine arrests in Nigeria and the seizure of 53 electronic devices. Patel also disclosed that the operation led to the identification of $11m in potentially freezable funds across multiple countries. He…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 29-year-old man in Saudi Arabia has been executed for a crime he committed when he was 14 years old, sparking backlash from international human rights organizations. Hassan Zaki al-Faraj was executed on Saturday, Oct. 17, according to a statement from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior, published by the Saudi Press Agency…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Young protesters in Barcelona looted shops, set fire to rubbish bins and erected barricades in the latest outbreak of violence in Europe. The unrest began on Saturday afternoon and led to at least 128 arrests, roughly half of them of minors, according to authorities. Fifteen police officers were reported injured during the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit a mountainous region in Tibet, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens, according to Chinese state media. The centre of the quake hit Baqên County in the Nagqu region on Thursday night, Xinhua reported, citing the local emergency management bureau. The county – located in…
