LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special anti-corruption court in Iran has sentenced a couple to death on money laundering and other charges, the judiciary said Tuesday. The couple — Najva Lasheidaei and her husband Vahid Behzadi — are said to have smuggled hard currency and laundered $200 million, said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili. Authorities also confiscated…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran has issued its most dire warning about coronavirus, suggesting ‘millions’ could die in the Islamic Republic if the public keeps ignoring health guidance. A state television journalist who is also a medical doctor gave the warning after Shiite faithful pushed their way into the courtyards of two major shrines that had…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prisons across the UK could be forced to release low-category inmates to control the spread of coronavirus across the British justice system. General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association Steve Gillan this morning said that some prisoners across sites in the UK have already been forced to self-isolate within the prisons due to…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a statement on Saturday that his country expects a full investigation, a full admission of guilt and compensation from Iran after the downing of a passenger plane. Iran had earlier said it mistakenly shot down a plane killing all 176 people aboard and voiced its…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on two military bases…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was struck down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Wednesday. “We have intelligence from multiple sources…including our own intelligence, that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile,” Trudeau said. “This may well have been unintentional.” Foreign…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran was struck by two earthquakes near a nuclear power plant on Wednesday after a chaotic day that saw the country launch missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq before a passenger plane crashed and killed dozens in an unrelated incident. According to the Washington Post, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing American troops in a revenge attack for the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general. The Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq that was visited by Donald Trump in December 2018 and the Erbil base in Iraqi Kurdistan…