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A year and a half after Marius Borg Høiby was arrested by police over a violent episode at a woman's flat's in Oslo, the son of Norway's crown princess has gone on trial in the biggest case to come to court here for years. Høiby is accused of 38 charges including four counts of rape in one of the biggest cases in Norway for years. The seven-week trial opens at […]
The Renewed Hope Grassroot Movement, RHGM, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for signing the historic Electricity Bill into law. This is contained in a statement signed by the National Coordinator of RHGM, Ambassador Isaac Chigozie Udeh in Abuja. According to the statement, the new law removes electricity from the Exclusive Legislative List, allowing states to independently generate, transmit, and distribute power. It explains that States can now establish electricity […]
Palestinians have started to enter the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after it reopened for the movement of people. The crossing has largely been closed since May 2024, when the Palestinian side was captured by Israeli forces. The long-delayed reopening is a key part of the first stage of US President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas, which began in October. Only dozens of […]
Lord Mandelson has resigned from Labour, saying he wants to save the party "further embarrassment" over his links to Jeffrey Epstein New documents, released on Friday in the US, suggest Epstein paid $75,000 to Lord Mandelson in three separate transactions in 2003 and 2004 Mandelson says he has no record of the payments to himself 20 years ago. He believes they are "false" but says they need "investigating by me". […]
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has finalised accommodation contracts for Nigerian pilgrims in both Makkah and Madinah for the 2026 Hajj, marking a major milestone in its operational preparations. The development follows the deployment of a high-level NAHCON delegation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a strategic move aimed at fast-tracking critical logistics, ensuring regulatory compliance, and eliminating risks associated with late contracting. In a statement, the Commission […]
An Illinois judge has sentenced a former sheriff’s deputy to the maximum 20 years in prison for the July 2024 fatal shooting of an unarmed black woman in her home after she called 911 to report a possible intruder, according to court records. Reuters on Thursday night reported that Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy, was convicted in October of second-degree murder in the death of Sonya Massey, […]
A twin-propeller aircraft carrying 15 people, including a Colombian lawmaker, Diogenes Quintero, crashed in a mountainous region near the Venezuelan border on January 28. According to AFP, the aircraft departed from the border city of Cúcuta and lost contact with air traffic control shortly before it was scheduled to land in the nearby town of Ocaña at about 5:00 p.m. GMT. “There are no survivors,” an official of the aviation […]
Ross Davidson, who used Ross Wild as his stage name, was known for singing with the 80s band Spandau Ballet in 2018 as well as starring in the Queen-themed West End musical We Will Rock You. The 37-year-old from Finchley, north London, had pleaded not guilty to the rape of a woman in London in March 2015. He also denied the attempted rape and sexual assault of another woman in […]
South Africa's Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said that the security forces are not yet able to defeat deadly criminal gangs, in a stark admission that underscores the scale of the country's crime crisis. Gang violence, alongside robberies, accounts for many murders in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest homicide rates. Cachalia said gang violence had become increasingly complex, especially in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape […]
