LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ukrainian family seeking asylum from the war back home was turned away from the U.S. border in San Diego on Wednesday after attempting to reach family in California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. A spokesperson from Customs and Border Protection told the Union-Tribune that the agency is “looking into the situation.”…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil prices have plunged after the United Arab Emirates said it supported increasing production. Brent crude, an international benchmark, fell more than 17% at one point after the statement by the UAE, a member of the powerful oil cartel Opec. The fall follows weeks of skyrocketing oil prices due to supply disruptions…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A plane carrying former U.S. President Donald Trump made an emergency landing in New Orleans on Saturday evening after experiencing an engine failure over the Gulf of Mexico, a source familiar with the matter confirmed on Wednesday. The plane, a Dassault Falcon 900, had gone about 75 miles (120 km) from a…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of Defense on Wednesday explained its reasoning for rejecting Poland’s recent offer to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets into U.S. custody for delivery to Ukraine, describing the proposal as “high risk.” “The intelligence community has assessed that the transfer of MiG-29s to Ukraine may be mistaken as escalatory and could result…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), an international association of Christian communications, kicked off its 2022 annual convention in Nashville this evening. A press statement made available to Newsrangers revealed that no fewer than 3,500 broadcasters, journalists, producers and representatives of media organizations gathered at the Gaylord Opryland to kick off a week…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine will repatriate troops and equipment, including helicopters, involved in U.N. peacekeeping missions in Africa and Europe to bolster defences at home in the face of Russia’s invasion, a U.N. official said. Russian troops invaded Ukraine nearly two weeks ago, shelling, bombing and besieging its cities and towns and forcing more than…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the intensified Russia-Ukraine war and amounting to a major setback for Ukrainian forces, on Tuesday, March 8, Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych urged incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky to call off the resistance and stop combatting foreign troops. Diluting the Kremlin-led full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, the ousted Head of State of Ukraine concluded that the ongoing…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed willingness to discuss Russia’s demands for Kyiv to recognize annexed Crimea and the breakaway pro-Moscow territories in an interview with ABC News published Tuesday. “I think that items regarding temporarily occupied territories and pseudo-republics not recognized by anyone but Russia, we can discuss and find a…
