LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight people have been killed and one seriously injured in a series of shootings in western Turkey. The attacks took place in the Afyonkarahisar province on Thursday, with victims found in several locations in three separate vehicles, according to local reports. The suspect fled, triggering a manhunt, and authorities later said he…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil prices dropped Wednesday, putting them on track for their largest one-week decline since 2020, as investors weigh the odds that a Democratic sweep in the U.S. midterm elections could lead to a quicker end to the Iran war. Democrats won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kenyan court has sentenced the leader of a doomsday cult, Paul Mackenzie, to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people, all but one of them children. Alongside 28 others, Mackenzie was found guilty of the murders for instructing members of his cult to starve their children to death so they…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Across different regions of the country, mayors are turning targets into projects, transforming transport, waste management, and the use of public funds and preparedness for the impacts of climate change, in a year marked by a super El Niño. Seven Brazilian cities are working to implement climate budgeting. This is a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 18 aircraft across Europe have been targeted by bomb threats – the second incident on this scale this week, which the UK has called a “malicious hoax”. Flights bound for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland and Romania were affected, including an Aer Lingus plane from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Democrats have swept to victory in the US midterm elections, taking control of Congress. While the incumbent president’s party generally tends to have a bad night in these elections, the scale of the Republican defeat is being viewed as a resounding rejection of Donald Trump’s two years in the White…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel has died after the 30-year-old suffered a serious injury during a Spanish second-division match. The forward suffered head and chest injuries during a match against FC Andorra on Monday in a heavy collision with goalkeeper Jesus Owono, who was sent off for his challenge. De Miguel’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- India lifted nearly 500 million people out of poverty between 2011 and 2023, with extreme poverty dropping from 27.1 percent to 2.6 percent in the world’s most populous nation during the period, according to a new World Bank report. The only other parallel in poverty reduction on this scale is…
