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…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70% of the world’s websites. Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced Wednesday. The US National Security Agency and Europe’s cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi citizens it had accused of an “indecent act” inside a mosque in Mecca. The case has caused public anger in Bangladesh and has left its government scrambling for answers because it only learnt about the executions after the fact. According to the Saudi interior ministry, a man…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-According to Euro News Colombian police have seized 7.6 tonnes of cocaine bound for the Netherlands at the port of Cartagena, President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Tuesday. “The National Police has just achieved the largest cocaine seizure in the port of Cartagena in the last 10 years,” he wrote on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of students and teachers marched through the streets of the Greek capital of Athens Wednesday, calling for affordable student housing and more state investment in education, as protests that have swept Europe spread further. Similar protests were being held in several cities in Greece, including Thessaloniki in the north and the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST(NEWSRANGERS)– President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked over 300,000 US visas during his second term, the State Department said on Tuesday as the federal government continues its sweeping immigration crackdown. The number showed an acceleration in the pace of visa revocations in recent weeks. In an update issued on August 10, the State…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)- According to report from Reuters death on attack by Yemen’s Houthi movement on a government security forces training camp in Shabwa province has risen 73 people, the provincial media office said, raising the toll from Monday’s strike as fighting intensifies. Fourteen people remained missing, it added. The Iran-aligned Houthis and Yemen’s…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An air ambulance transporting a female patient made an emergency landing after its door began opening mid-air, according to local reports. Report monitor on People says a Beechcraft King Air C90A plane operating as an air ambulance departed Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala, India, during the afternoon of Sunday, Oct….
