LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead six family members including his two young children at a New Year’s Eve party before turning the gun on himself, the police said Tuesday. The mass shooting took place 10 minutes after midnight as Thai man Sucheep Sornsung joined his wife’s family…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Saturday pinned the recent deaths of two migrant children on the southern U.S. border on his usual political foe, the Democrats, along with what he called “their pathetic immigration policies.” Trump’s reaction came four days after an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy with the fludied in government custody after surrendering…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Arab Emirates has reopened its embassy in Syria. Recently, UAE is promoting diplomacy to bring peace in the Middle East. Thus, this is being considered as a major step for the country that was funding the rebels to fight the president Bashar al-Assad. The UAE has officially said that this…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2019 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Tunisian journalist has died after setting himself on fire, officials said, in a protest over harsh living conditions that prompted overnight clashes with police in the country’s west. Police fired tear gas at dozens of people who took to the streets Monday night in the city of Kasserine, 270 kilometres (165…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroonian political parties have crisscrossed the country ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday. Except for one candidate, no one has been able to organize campaigns in the restive Anglophone regions. Eight candidates representing a string of opposition parties are vying to oust 85-year-old incumbent President Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)— A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a newlywed during a robbery more than 25 years ago. Alvin Braziel Jr., 43, received lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1993 slaying of 27-year-old Douglas White, who was attacked as he and his wife walked on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank Group today announced a major new set of climate targets for 2021-2025, doubling its current 5-year investments to around $200 billion in support for countries to take ambitious climate action. The new plan significantly boosts support for adaptation and resilience, recognizing mounting climate change impacts on lives and livelihoods,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- There was no mistaking the odd man out. The Washington funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush served as a rare reunion of the remaining members of the presidents club, but the front-row banter among Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and their spouses came to an end when…
