LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won his legal battle against being extradited from the UK to face espionage charges — after a British judge decided he would likely commit suicide if sent to the US. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that it would be “oppressive” to extradite the 49-year-old Australian because…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 62-year-old pastor reportedly confronted Mytrez Deunte Woolen with a gun, but he was overpowered. A pastor was killed and two parishioners were injured in a church shooting in East Texas on Sunday. Authorities had been searching for 21-year-old Mytrez Deunte Woolen on Saturday, using dogs and drones, when the pastor of…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested in northern Mexico for allegedly beating to death his three sons in order to get back at the children’s mother, prosecutors said Sunday. The prosecutors’ office in the northern state of Sonora said Sunday the boys were aged 3, 7 and 8. The deaths occurred in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who hasn’t been seen in public for several weeks after criticising China’s financial regulatory system, has now disappeared as a judge on a TV talent show that he created. Mr Ma was absent from the final of “The Apprentice”-style “Africa’s Business Heroes”, a show that offers budding African…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey. He recalled how he emerged from a coma months later to learn his best friend had fallen 5,000ft from the…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens civilians killed. Around 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye – both near Niger’s western border with Mali, Reuters reports. There have been several recent violent incidents in Africa’s…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Malian authorities on Thursday charged six prominent figures, including a former prime minister, with seeking to mount a coup, a move that came after a military putsch in August, their lawyers said. The public prosecutor’s office in the capital Bamako said in a statement that six people were under investigation for…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ethiopian migrant who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. A Ghanaian employee on her farm in the northern Italian region of Trentino has admitted to killing Agitu Ideo Gudeta,…