LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remain in Ceuta after hordes of mostly military-aged men rushed into the Spanish enclave from Morocco late last month, Ceuta’s president said Thursday. While speaking from a video call during an extraordinary session of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Ceuta President…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily. The Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta said 57 bodies…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says 13 people have been found dead after a powerful earthquake shook part of southwestern Japan, as efforts continued Wednesday morning to find the missing. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto, a southern area on the main island of Kyushu, late Tuesday afternoon, its epicentre 20km (12…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS) — The death toll from the earthquakes that devastated Venezuela last month has risen to more than 4,300 people, a government official said Saturday. The June 24 twin quakes in La Guaira — the first a 7.2-magnitude shock, followed seconds later by another reaching magnitude 7.5 — were the biggest the country…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The death toll from the powerful earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela last month has risen to 2,645, while 12,666 people were injured, the Communication and Information Ministry said Friday. According to a ministry statement on US social media company X, so far 6,462 people have been rescued and 86,117 families assisted…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes has risen to at least 1,450 as rescue workers struggle to save lives after a critical window for locating survivors closed. National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez shared the updated death toll on Sunday, saying at least 3,150 people were injured in the back-to-back magnitude 7.2…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China’s Shanxi province has jumped to 90 and nine people are missing, state media organisation Xinhua reports. The gas explosion occurred late on Friday at the Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan County, while 247 workers were on duty…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This weekend’s winter storm and ensuing bitter cold have left at least 25 people dead and caused prolonged power outages for hundreds of thousands, particularly across the southern US. The damage from ice and cold was most significant in a swath stretching from east Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi and into Nashville, Tennessee….
