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Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, a private military company, has been killed in a plane crash. BBC reported that Prigozhin was among 10 passengers on board a private jet that crashed in the north of Moscow, the capital of Russia, on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. The Russian Civil Aviation Authority said seven passengers and three crew were on board the Embraer aircraft, which was en route from Moscow to St. […]
The United Kingdom has announced a tariff reduction in over 3,000 products exported from Nigeria under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTC). Mr Richard Montgomery, the British High Commissioner, disclosed this on Tuesday at a Workshop on the UK Developing Countries Trading Scheme, in conjunction with the federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC). Montgomery, represented by Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, […]
A railway bridge being built across a ravine in India’s northeastern Mizoram state has collapsed, killing at least 26 labourers working on the project, officials said, with many others reported missing. The accident happened at Sairang, a town about 20km (12 miles) from Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram which lies in the far east of India, bordering Myanmar. State Transport Minister T J Lalnuntluanga, who was at the site, said […]
A drone has hit a building in central Moscow that was under construction, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said. Air defences also shot down two drones in the Mozhaisk and Khimki districts of the Moscow region, the defence ministry added. No casualties were reported. But in a separate drone attack in Russia's Belgorod region, three people have been killed, the governor said. Russian officials have blamed the incidents on Kyiv - […]
Russia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the Moscow region. Reports say two other drones were intercepted over the Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border, it added. Flights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow's airports early on Tuesday, the ministry said. According to the report, airspace above Moscow has been closed several times in recent days as reports […]
Donald Trump has said he plans to turn himself in on Thursday to a court in the state of Georgia to face charges of election interference. Reports say a judge in Atlanta who is overseeing the former president's case has set bail at $200,000 (£157,000). The agreement says Mr Trump can remain free pending trial so long as he does not attempt to threaten or intimidate witnesses. Mr Trump denies […]
Thailand's former PM Thaksin Shinawatra has been jailed upon returning to the country after 15 years in exile. But many believe he has struck a deal that will keep him from serving more than a short period in prison. BBC reported that he arrived on Tuesday morning in a private jet, ahead of a vote for the next Thai leader - the frontrunner is from his Pheu Thai party. He was then sentenced to eight years, on former criminal convictions […]
Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, have been shot dead. Migrants have told the BBC they had limbs severed by gunfire and saw bodies left on the trails. Saudi Arabia has previously rejected allegations of […]
The assassination of Fernando Villavicencio upended the final week of campaigning in Ecuador. Reports say all eight candidates talked about the need for peace and security, and after an often bloody campaign, that was a message that Ecuadoreans very much wanted to hear. After Mr Villavicencio's death, a local politician was killed in the northern Esmeraldas province and many feared more was to come. According to the report, Sunday's elections […]
