LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom and Denmark will be labeled red and placed under a travel ban starting overnight Wednesday, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday. It also revealed that 15 more Omicron cases were identified in the country, bringing the total to 67. Israelis cannot travel to red countries unless they obtain special…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Friday night’s series of deadly Midwest tornados ripped an Amazon warehouse in Illinois to shreds, leaving at least six dead and one wounded. An unknown number of others may be trapped in the rubble, but local officials said Saturday evening that they didn’t believe anyone was left alive. “We’re now focused solely on recovery,” Edwardsville…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video shared online shows four women being stripped, beaten, and paraded as punishment for allegedly stealing from a local shop in Pakistan. The women were accused of shoplifting in Faisalabad, Punjab, and were said to have been accosted by locals. In the video, the women enter the shop where a man is working…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man from China was reported to the police five times in three days due to his resemblance to a North Korean defector. The doppelganger: The Chinese man in the dark blue jacket has a similar hairstyle, facial features and expression of the North Korean, who is identified as Zhu Xianjian by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian official on Monday criticized a travel ban imposed on the West African nation by the British government amid fears about the new omicron coronavirus variant as “punitive, indefensible and discriminatory.” U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Saturday added Nigeria to the U.K.’s travel “red list,” which means that arrivals from…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de facto coup this year, was convicted on two charges Monday and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly cut in half — in proceedings widely criticized as a further effort by the country’s military rulers to roll…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 23 people have drowned after a bus travelling to a wedding plunged into a flooded river in Kenya. Video footage shows the bus was swept away after the driver tried to cross fast-flowing water over a bridge in the Enziu River, about 200km (125 miles) east of the Kenyan capital,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 31 people have been killed in central Mali after militants attacked a bus carrying civilians to a market, local officials have said. Unidentified gunmen opened fire and killed the driver, before setting the bus on fire, according to authorities. Most of the victims were women who were on their way…
