LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Los Angeles and other major cities across the nation are girding for widespread demonstrations against the Trump administration Saturday as the federal government expands its aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown beyond Southern California. In Washington, the Army will celebrate 250 years of service, as well as President Trump’s 79th birthday, with an unprecedented…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger on an Air India flight has raised concerns about the aircraft’s condition, which later crashed in western India. Akash Vatsa reported issues while on board the same Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner during a prior journey from Delhi to Ahmedabad, just hours before its scheduled departure from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick. Vatsa…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man survived the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people, a police chief has told an Indian news agency. Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik told ANI there was one survivor who was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 flight – a seat the flight manifest shared by…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A London-bound passenger plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday and all 242 people on board were believed killed, with the jet smashing into buildings housing doctors and their families. An AFP journalist saw people recovering bodies and firefighters trying to douse the smouldering wreckage after the Boeing 787-8…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six people were injured Sunday when a skydiving plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in Tennessee. The twin-engine plane went down soon after taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport at 12:30 p.m., officials said in a Sunday evening briefing. It landed in a grassy area near the airport, next to the…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two people were killed by falling trees and tens of thousands were left without power as severe storms rolled through the South over the weekend. The storms downed trees and powerlines and brought heavy rainfall, hail and gusty winds as they pushed through the region. Nearly 150,000 people across southern states…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has said it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” rather than push for peace talks immediately. The American president made the remarks during a visit from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday in Washington. Merz expressed skepticism about the prospect of a near-term peace…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight deportees and over a dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are stranded in a shipping container in east Africa after a judge blocked their deportation flight. Neither the officers or immigrants are able to leave the container, located in a U.S. naval base in the scorching-hot nation of Djibouti,…
