LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel has died after the 30-year-old suffered a serious injury during a Spanish second-division match. The forward suffered head and chest injuries during a match against FC Andorra on Monday in a heavy collision with goalkeeper Jesus Owono, who was sent off for his challenge. De Miguel’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- India lifted nearly 500 million people out of poverty between 2011 and 2023, with extreme poverty dropping from 27.1 percent to 2.6 percent in the world’s most populous nation during the period, according to a new World Bank report. The only other parallel in poverty reduction on this scale is…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-King Charles has described the transatlantic slave trade as a “shameful chapter of history” that filled him with “profound sorrow” as he opened a summit of Commonwealth leaders in the Caribbean. He said the trade in enslaved persons “still casts a shadow” over the association of nations. There have been calls from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Democrats have regained control of Congress, winning back the U.S. House and Senate as Republican midterm losses mount. Coming into the night, Republicans held 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, compared with 45 held by Democrats. There are two independents — Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Learjet believed to be carrying nine people crashed on Sunday afternoon in Palm Beach County, Florida, after making a rapid dive of about 350 feet per second, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane, a 22-year-old twin-engine Learjet 60, crashed after taking off from Austin, Texas, and was headed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (MEWSRANGERS)-Spanish protesters blaming Pedro Sánchez’s government for a train crash that killed at least 69 people have clashed with riot police. More than 1,000 people demonstrated outside the transport ministry in Madrid on Wednesday after two trains travelling to Seville from the capital crashed that morning. The driver had been wrongly informed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cost-of-living protests that began in France have spread to Germany where demonstrations to coincide with Halloween were underway on Saturday, with tens of thousands of people turning out across the country. The new German youth-led movement dubbed “Gen Z has got this!” is protesting against the high cost of living, underfunded…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Raids against online scam centres in Madagascar have exposed ties with a criminal group that ran similar operations in Cambodia, also duping African nationals via alleged human trafficking, authorities told AFP. Conducting romance, cryptocurrency and investment fraud, the sites were mostly operated by Chinese nationals, 148 of whom have been extradited to…
