LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, has said a recent operation targeting international cybercrime networks resulted in nine arrests in Nigeria and the seizure of 53 electronic devices. Patel also disclosed that the operation led to the identification of $11m in potentially freezable funds across multiple countries. He…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 29-year-old man in Saudi Arabia has been executed for a crime he committed when he was 14 years old, sparking backlash from international human rights organizations. Hassan Zaki al-Faraj was executed on Saturday, Oct. 17, according to a statement from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior, published by the Saudi Press Agency…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Young protesters in Barcelona looted shops, set fire to rubbish bins and erected barricades in the latest outbreak of violence in Europe. The unrest began on Saturday afternoon and led to at least 128 arrests, roughly half of them of minors, according to authorities. Fifteen police officers were reported injured during the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit a mountainous region in Tibet, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens, according to Chinese state media. The centre of the quake hit Baqên County in the Nagqu region on Thursday night, Xinhua reported, citing the local emergency management bureau. The county – located in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70% of the world’s websites. Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced Wednesday. The US National Security Agency and Europe’s cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi citizens it had accused of an “indecent act” inside a mosque in Mecca. The case has caused public anger in Bangladesh and has left its government scrambling for answers because it only learnt about the executions after the fact. According to the Saudi interior ministry, a man…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-According to Euro News Colombian police have seized 7.6 tonnes of cocaine bound for the Netherlands at the port of Cartagena, President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Tuesday. “The National Police has just achieved the largest cocaine seizure in the port of Cartagena in the last 10 years,” he wrote on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of students and teachers marched through the streets of the Greek capital of Athens Wednesday, calling for affordable student housing and more state investment in education, as protests that have swept Europe spread further. Similar protests were being held in several cities in Greece, including Thessaloniki in the north and the…
