LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran’s supreme leader has decorated the Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander for the Islamic republic’s missile attacks on arch-foe Israel, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website said on Sunday. “Ayatollah Khamenei presented the Order of Fath (“Conquest” in Farsi) to General Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guards Aerospace Force,” it said. The decoration was bestowed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels, U.S. officials confirmed. Military aircraft and warships bombed Houthi strongholds at roughly five locations, according to the officials. Houthi media said seven strikes hit the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Mpumalanga have appealed to community members to prioritise their safety and refrain from tampering with strange objects or handling explosives. The plea came in the wake of a tragic incident which occurred in Mhluzi near Middelburg, in Mpumalanga, where a man was killed in an explosion. The tragic event happened…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Up to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack on a town in Burkina Faso, according to a French government security assessment that nearly doubles the death toll cited in earlier reports. The new figure would make the assault, in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers could be trapped in a besieged town as Russian forces complete their encirclement and close in. In a desperate plea, one Ukrainian soldier described how evacuation routes out of Vuhledar had been cut and food, ammunition and fuel were running low. “The situation in Vuhledar is, to put…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia’s autumn draft that starts Oct. 1 and goes until the end of the year, according to a Kremlin decree published on Monday. The decree, published in Russian state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, calls to carry out the draft of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The aftermath of Hurricane Helene is still unfolding across the Southeastern U.S., where at least 91 people have been reported dead, according to the Associated Press, and roughly 2.4 million were without power as of Sunday afternoon. The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday night as a Category…
The unauthorized landing of a unidentified aircraft at Freetown International Airport last Friday, September 20, has ignited a firestorm of concern across Sierra Leone. The mysterious plane, said to have flown from Liberia and allegedly en route to Mexico, landed in Freetown without the necessary clearance and was found to be using a fake registration…