LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In the days before the Titan vessel went into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, the 19-year-old university student accompanying his father on the expedition expressed hesitation about going, his aunt said in an interview Thursday. Azmeh Dawood — the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood — told NBC…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Titanic tourist submersible that vanished on a trip to the 111-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is believed to have run out of oxygen — but authorities pushed ahead with the search operation Thursday morning. OceanGate Expeditions, which operates the Titan sub and whose CEO, Stockton Rush, is…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifteen people have died of alcohol poisoning in Iran after consuming bootleg booze, state media reported on Wednesday, as the number of similar deaths increases across the country. ‘So far, 15 people have died and 180 people have been poisoned and hospitalised,’ Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, the chief justice of Alborz province, where…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A fight between rival gangs at a women’s prison in Honduras on Tuesday quickly escalated into a riot that killed dozens of inmates. The riot at the prison in Tamara, around 30 miles outside the capital city of Tegucigalpa, started after rival gangs Barrio 18 and MS-13 clashed inside the facility early…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-After a spate of arrests and executions for drug offences, Ibrahim, a dealer in Saudi Arabia, is not taking any chances. “I don’t deal with new clients or go to the clients myself,” said the 37-year-old, using a pseudonym to protect his identity. “They have to take on the risk,” he told…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s economy grew faster than anticipated in the first quarter, driven by the services and agricultural sectors. Gross domestic product expanded 4.2% in the three months through March from a year earlier, compared with 3.7% growth in the previous quarter, government statistician Samuel Kobina Annim told reporters in the capital, Accra, on…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The world seems to be watching the daring rescue effort for the Titan submersible as crews from across the globe join in the days-long search. At a press conference Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard updated the search and rescue mission for the vessel, which went missing Sunday, as crews remain determined to…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive search continued early Wednesday in a remote part of the North Atlantic for a submersible that vanished while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. A statement from the U.S. Coast Guard did not elaborate on what rescuers…