LAGOS JUNE 16TH(NEWSRANGERS)- – Donald Trump threatened Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe he would ship 25 million Mexicans to his country, one of a series of bizarre missives that jarred fellow leaders at last week’s acrimonious G7 meet, according to a report on Friday. The Group of Seven summit gathering of top industrialized democracies finished…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canadians have taken to practicing pocketbook diplomacy in defense of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is caught in a trade war of words with President Trump, by boycotting American goods and canceling vacations to the United States, according to a report. Shoppers are shunning Kentucky bourbon, California wine and Florida oranges, and…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWRANGERS)-The cause of death for celebrity chef and CNN’s “Parts Unknown” host Anthony Bourdain has been revealed. According to the prosecutor of Colmar in France’s Alsace region, Bourdain hanged himself in the bathroom of his French hotel room. Prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny told The Associated Press on Saturday that the famed chef…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN’s food-and-travel-focused “Parts Unknown” television series, has died at the age of 61, the network said today. The cause of death was suicide, the network said in a statement. He was found dead in a hotel room in France where he had been working on…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A water baptism ceremony held near a lake turned into a horrific tragedy when the pastor was reportedly grabbed by a crocodile Sunday. Pastor Docho Eshete was baptizing at least 80 members of his Protestant congregation at Lake Abaya, in southern Ethiopia, an area known to have a huge crocodile population, when…
LAGOS,MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prosperity gospel televangelist Jesse Duplantis is pleading with his followers, claiming he needs a $54 million jet to help him efficiently spread the gospel to as many people as possible, the Washington Post reports. In a video posted to YouTube, television preacher Duplantis asked the Lord — and his hundreds of thousands of…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said. Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed…
Roman Abramovich[/capt LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club who has found himself without a visa to Britain, took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has bought a property, an Israeli media report said. Abramovich has been counted as one of the richest…