LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moroccan police, in collaboration with Spanish security forces, have confiscated 1.488 tonnes (3,280lb) of cocaine in a joint operation. The illicit substance was concealed within banana boxes inside a shipping container on a vessel originating from South America en route to Turkey. The seizure occurred on Tuesday at the Tanger Med port…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with four counts of treason in connection with an attempted coup. Last November, gunmen broke into a military armoury and several prisons in Freetown, freeing almost 2,000 inmates. He has denied any involvement in the attack which killed about 20 people. West…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 103 people and wounded over 140 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday. A senior official called the blasts a “terroristic” attack, without elaborating on who could be behind them amid wider…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people burst into a ball of fire at a Tokyo airport Tuesday when it collided with a coast guard jet — killing at least five crew members taking aid to victims of a deadly earthquake. Horrifying video showed the Japan Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dhaka court sentenced Muhammad Yunus — who won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microloans to some of Bangladesh’s poorest — to 6 months in jail for labor law violations. A labor inspector had found that employees of Grameen Telecom, of which Yunus, 83, is chairman, were denied benefits including leave…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader and a linchpin between the group and terrorist affiliates in Iran and Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency and the Hezbollah-linked al-Mayadeen media outlet. Arouri, who had a $5 million U.S. information bounty…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane on Thursday landed on cracking ice on a notorious Russian river due to a pilot’s mistake. Thirty passengers and four crew were safely evacuated on foot from the Polar Airlines An-24 propeller plane in Yakutia, Siberia‘s coldest region. The pilot mistook the frozen Kolyma River for a small landing strip…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway has been found alive hidden inside a plane’s landing gear after a two-hour flight to Paris. The unidentified man was found inside an Air Algerie plane which had flown from the northern Algerian city of Oran to the French capital. The total flight time was two hours and 12 minutes,…