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Why Iran President Helicopter Crashed? – Expert

LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other officials died in a helicopter crash Sunday near Iran’s northern border with Azerbaijan, Iranian state media said Monday morning. The helicopter was part of a convoy of three helicopters returning from an event inaugurating a joint dam project when it crashed in […]

May 22 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Israel Fumes Over Norway, Ireland, Spain Recognition Of Palestinian State, Withdraws Ambassadors

LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel immediately denounced the decisions and recalled its ambassadors to the three countries. Palestinians welcomed the announcements […]

May 22 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

‘Expect A Big War’ If Iran Traces President’s Helicopter Crash To Enemies- Expert

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran could launch an all-out war on the world if it turns out an “enemy state” had a hand in the fatal helicopter crash that saw the country’s president killed overnight. The wreckage of the ill-fated US-made Bell 212 helicopter was discovered by rescue teams today, with initial reports suggesting that the […]

May 21 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Sierra Leone First Lady Allegedly Calls Off Sunday Church Services To Permit Secret Society Procession

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Church leaders in Sierra Leone have vehemently protested against the action taken by the First Lady of Sierra Leone , Mrs. Fatima Bio and the authorities of Kenema- one of the strongholds of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) —to call off church services today, Pentecost Sunday, to permit […]

May 21 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

CNN Political Commentator Alice Stewart Passes On At 58

LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58. Law enforcement officials told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and officers believe a medical emergency occurred. “Alice was a […]

May 19 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Gold Coast Storm Leaves Four Dead, Over One Million Without Power In Houston

LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Storms battered Texas and Louisiana late Thursday and early Friday with destructive winds and torrential rain, leaving at least four dead, roads flooded and more than 1 million homes and businesses without power — as more floods Friday could plague parts of the Gulf Coast. At least four people died as the […]

May 17 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

French Imposes state Of Emergency, Bans TikTok, Shut Airport In Riot-Hit New Caledonia

LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France on Wednesday said it was imposing a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting police deployments and banning video app TikTok in a bid to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead. The emergency measures give authorities greater powers […]

May 15 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Govt Slams Thousands Of ‘Abandoned’ Care Workers Notice To Leave UK

LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been […]

May 14 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Russia Invasion: Ukraine Plans To Draft Prisoners Into Military Service

LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Ukrainian prisoners will be able to apply for early parole and join the army under a new law aimed at boosting Kyiv’s manpower in its fight against the Russian invasion. The new law will apply only to prisoners who have no more than three years left of their original sentences and […]

May 10 2024 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Haiti Former Senator, Mayor, Six Others Docked Over Killing Of Journalist

Official Facebook page of Sen. Rony Célestin

LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator and the acting mayor of a small Haiti town have been charged in the death of a journalist whose 2019 killing, amid the country’s deepening political crisis, sparked protests and calls for an investigation after he became the third journalist in the country killed in less than two years. […]