Man arrested near Trump rally in California faces gun charges
Reuters A man arrested at a security checkpoint near Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s California rally on Saturday faces gun charges after he was found in possession of loaded firearms,…
Seeing double in Nigeria’s ‘twins capital of the world’
AFP On a normal day a visitor might pass Igbo-Ora with little more than a double take, wondering why so many pairs of residents wear matching clothes. But this weekend…
South Korea military says ‘fully ready’ as drone tensions soar
AFP South Korea’s military said Monday it was “fully ready” to respond after North Korea ordered troops on the border to prepare to fire in an escalating dispute over drone…
Russia says more than 30,000 evacuated from areas bordering Ukraine
Reuters Some 30,415 people including nearly 8,000 children have been evacuated from areas bordering Ukraine due to shelling and attacks, Russia’s human rights commissioner said in remarks published on Monday.…
Hezbollah drones kill four Israeli soldiers, dozens injured
Olayomi Koiki Hezbollah said on Sunday that it attacked a camp of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade camp in Binyamina in northern Israel with a “swarm of drones”. Israel’s military…
Man jumps into river after taking hard drug Colorado in Nigeria’s Lagos, police say
Morakinyo Akinosun Lagos – A man has died after jumping into a river in Nigeria’s Lagos State, police said on Sunday, in a suspected drug abuse incident. The 45-year-old man,…
South Africa SOEs: 200 days without power outages; truck times
Bloomberg South Africa recorded the 200th day of constant electricity supply since state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. halted rolling outages known as load shedding on March 26. The…
SpaceX successfully catches returning Starship booster with ‘Mechazilla’ arms
AFP SpaceX successfully “caught” the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company’s quest…
Sudan rescuers say air strike killed 23 in Khartoum market
AFP A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said on Sunday the military carried out an air strike a day earlier on a marketplace in Khartoum, leaving 23 people dead. The…
Netanyahu tells UN to move Lebanon peacekeepers out of ‘harm’s way’
AFP Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the UN chief on Sunday to move peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon out of “harm’s way”, saying Hezbollah was using…