LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eleven people have died after a civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in the town of Tomblaine in eastern France, local officials said. The pilot and all 10 passengers were killed, including five instructors and five people who were preparing to skydive for the first time. The plane, which was being used…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ryan Mendes, the veteran captain who has played in all three of Cape Verde’s matches during its Cinderella rise to the knockout stage, is under police investigation in New Zealand after a Brazilian woman accused him of rape, according to Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. The alleged incident occurred March 27 at…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For months, anti-migrant rhetoric had been building across South Africa. Then it reached Kaunga Nyirenda’s doorstep. In early June, two men gave the Malawian gardener, who lives in a Johannesburg suburb, a chilling ultimatum: leave now or face death. “They asked me: ‘When are you going to leave the country? We want…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-An Israeli Air Force helicopter carrying President Isaac Herzog made an emergency landing on Thursday after hitting a flock of birds. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said that the chopper was transporting Herzog from a memorial ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to northern Israel, where he was due to…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soccer legend Lionel Messi was honored with an 85-foot statue in his home country of Argentina (in the small town of Cutral Có, in the country’s Patagonia region), marking the biggest Messi statue ever made. However, the pose that Messi is in for the statue is raising eyebrows, especially when combined with…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 920 people have been killed and 3,360 injured following powerful back-to-back earthquakes that rocked Venezuela, officials said on Friday. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the coastal state of La Guaira, north of the capital Caracas, had been hardest hit by the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck on…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas and prompting scientists to warn of potentially heavy casualties and widespread destruction across the South American nation. The first quake occurred at around 6:04 p.m. local time about 15 miles east-northeast of San Felipe, Venezuela, data from…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has designated a Nigerian national and three companies operating in the country as alleged financial facilitators of activities linked to the terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They were designated in the latest action, which targeted a total of three individuals and six entities accused of…
