LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia over the past two days, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages. The floods submerged multiple vehicles, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Cindy Bayers said two such…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Universities across the UK are offering separate accommodation for gay and trans students starting courses in September. At least seven institutions have flats or accommodation blocks reserved only for LGBTQ+ undergraduates, including leading Russell Group universities. Critics likened the move to social segregation and said it was ‘patronising’ to think that…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-For two years, Toveet Israel and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Dimona, a city on the edge of the nation of Israel’s Negev Desert, has been her home for 24 years. Her eight children were born here and know no other country. Now, she…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unidentified gunmen have carried out a deadly attack, resulting in the loss of nine lives, including that of a recently married couple in the city of Bamenda in Cameroon. The victims, identified as Simplice Lontsi Tsomene, 37, and his wife Hélène Raisa Tanga, 25, were known as loving parents to three children…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Strikes by airport and airline staff grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands of travellers stranded in Europe on Saturday at the height of the busy summer tourism season. In Italy, some 1,000 flights, both domestic and international, were cancelled as a result of the strike by ground crew, according to airport…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the fees and health surcharge paid by visa applicants, including Indians, towards the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), which is funded by the state, will significantly rise. This increase aims to meet the country’s public sector wage increase. Sunak confirmed a hike of 5…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four stowaways have been rescued off the southeast coast of Brazil after spending 13 days at sea hidden in the hull of a ship from Nigeria. According to federal police, the men rescued claimed to be Nigerians but did not carry any documents confirming their origin. A police official told AFP the…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 64-year-old man has been arrested in southern Russia for the shooting death of a former submarine commander who is alleged by some in Ukraine to have killed more than 20 civilians in a long-range missile strike last year. Sergei Denisenko was detained on suspicion of shooting former 2nd Capt. Stanislav Rzhitsky,…