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A helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials crashed in the mountainous north-west reaches of Iran on Sunday May 19, sparking a rescue operation in thick fog and driving rain. On Monday, search and rescue teams reached the crash site and “found no signs of the helicopter’s occupants being…
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The Ugandan military said on Sunday that it has captured the commander of the rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) responsible for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and rescued nine abductees in a joint operation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Ugandan troops, together with their Congolese counterparts, captured Anywari Al Iraq…
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said West African countries must unite to crush banditry, terrorism and other criminal activities plaguing the region. Tinubu stated this at the Presidential Villa in Abuja while receiving President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal where he called for an alignment of purpose and structure in West Africa to effectively address…
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Nigerian government forces have rescued 14 victims of abduction in the country’s central region, including nine university students taken hostage Thursday night by a group of gunmen, the army said. The nine abducted students of the state-owned Confluence University of Science and Technology, in the Okene area of the central state of Kogi, and the…
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Two government-run hospitals in Delhi received a bomb threat on Sunday, triggering evacuations in both facilities. Personnel belonging to the Delhi Police, the Delhi Fire Services and the local disaster management force were carrying out security checks inside the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Mangolpuri and the Burari Government Hospital in Burari area. On May 1…
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At least 18 people have been killed in recent bombing on four sites for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday, warning of more shellings on civilians. According to an OCHA report, 18 deaths have been reported…
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Militants in Lebanon launched six unmanned aerial vehicles at northern Israel on Tuesday, causing fire and damage. Only one of the drones was intercepted by the country’s Aerial Defense Array, the Israeli military said in a statement. One of the drones exploded near the community of Yiftah, close to the Israel-Lebanon border, sparking a fire,…
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Police in riot gear have raided Columbia University and arrested pro-Palestinian protesters occupying one of its buildings. Around 30 to 40 people have been removed from the Manhattan university’s Hamilton Hall, according to police The raid came hours after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the demonstration at the Ivy League school “must end now”. He…
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The US ambassador to the UN on Monday called on all regional countries to stop providing arms support to the warring parties in North African country of Sudan. “Armed actors in Sudan must respect international law and protect civilians, and recall the ICC’s (International Criminal Court) jurisdiction to investigate war crimes,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters,…
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The US has imposed sanctions on two entities that it said helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for two violent extremists in the West Bank. One of the entities, Mount Hebron Fund, launched an online fundraising campaign that raised $140,000 for settler Yinon Levi. Levi had led a group of settlers that assaulted Palestinian…
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Good evening from Meziesblog! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1.Nationwide darkness hit Nigeria as the National Grid collapsed for the fourth time in 2024 amid the Easter Holidays. According to sources from electricity Distribution companies in Nigeria, the grid collapsed around 4:30 pm on Thursday. 2. Hoodlums numbering about 30 on Thursday burnt a…
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Two children have been questioned by police over online posts that have been viewed as “justifying terrorism”, local authorities and Russian media have said. The children – aged nine and 16 – were among six people to be taken in by officers since the deadly Moscow concert attack last week. Police in Siberia brought in…
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A British man who flew to Russia to fight alongside Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine has insisted he is “not a terrorist”. Ben Stimson filmed himself dressed in Russian combat gear and flaunted a grenade apparently looted from Ukrainian forces. He has posted footage appearing to show foreign fighters walking past dead bodies in the…
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A former Minister of Communication Adebayo Shittu has urged the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to promise bandits a promising future by negotiating with them. Shittu said most of these bandits are able-bodied men whom the Federal Government should retain. Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, the former minister said non-kinetic approach in…
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Good morning from Meziesblog! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. President Bola Tinubu yesterday alleged that smugglers and beneficiaries of the old petrol subsidy were beginning to fight back, but vowed that his administration would not abuse the trust Nigerians reposed in him. Tinubu, during a meeting with the Forum of State Chairmen of…
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Sequel to the abduction of over two hundred women and young girls from three Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in Ngala at the Nigeria-Cameroon border, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State says some of the women and girls have voluntarily returned to the bush. Zulum made this disclosure while playing host to a team of…
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