LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump is considering an executive action to target birthright citizenship in his final weeks in office, according to two sources who spoke with The Hill in a report published on Friday. Birthright citizenship is the policy whereby anyone who is born in the US is immediately granted citizenship, regardless of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman told CNN on Friday. He is one of the frontliners of the no mask campaigners Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result,” the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Malawian millionaire preacher Shepherd Bushiri, wanted by South Africa on fraud charges, was Thursday ordered freed by a court in his native country following his arrest on an international warrant. A court in the capital Lilongwe instructed the unconditional release of Bushiri and his wife Mary, a day after they turned themselves…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-While Trump is currently the US president, he is set to be replaced in the White House by Joe Biden, after losing out to the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 election. Biden racked up 273 electoral college votes – surpassing the 270 votes he needed to win the presidency and beat…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump’s attempts to cling to power appeared more tenuous than ever on Wednesday as election officials in Georgia said a soon-to-be-completed recount was not likely to change President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there. Georgia is one of several states where Trump’s campaign is contesting election returns, so far without success. Election…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump would be wiser to acknowledge losing the U.S. presidential election and quit, Czech President Milos Zeman, an early Trump supporter, said on Thursday. Zeman, one of the few European politicians who backed Trump before his 2016 election victory but who made no such endorsement this year, told news website www.parlamentnilisty.cz…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arguing that the results of the presidential election are defective, Donald Trump’s campaign has asked a judge in Pennsylvania to declare him the winner in the state and allow the Republican-led state legislature to decide which way it will allocate its 20 electoral college votes. Joe Biden is projected to have won…