The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Ogunlowo, has confirmed the abduction of six marketers working for a Lagos-based real estate company at Oyebola village in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. Ogunlowo disclosed the development on Sunday during a telephone interview, according to the Commissioner, the victims were seized while on an inspection...
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Barbados Installs New President On 59th Independence Day, Popular Barbadian Singer Rihanna Celebrates From Home
The Installation of Barbados’ second president, The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic, took place at Kensington Oval during the annual Independence Day Parade and National Awards as the island marked 59 years since breaking from British rule in 1966 and four years as a republic since 2021. “Barbados, today is our day” declared Prime Minister Mia...
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Barbadian Singer And Businesswoman Rihanna Congratulations Barbados On Its 59th Independence And 4th Year As A Republic
Rihanna: “Congratulations to Barbados, MY HOME, on our 59th year of Independence and our 4th year as a Republic! “Today also marks the installation of our 2nd President, His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel The Most Honorable Jeffrey Bostic, who alongside our Honorable Prime Minister Mia Mottley will continue to lead Barbados with excellence!! “Barbados I L🇧🇧VE ...
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Trump’s Pardon Of Ex-Honduran President Hernández Injects Wild Card Into Election
The day before Honduras elects a new president, suddenly the main topics of conversation here shifted from domestic matters to U.S. President Donald Trump and the former Honduran president he said he will pardon. Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first endorsing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura from the conservative National Party and...
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Tennessee Player Says Jaguars Punter Threatened To ‘Kill Me’ During Titans Loss
Tennessee Titans running back Julius Chestnut said Jacksonville Jaguars punter Logan Cooke said he was going to kill him during Sunday’s game. Chestnut blocked Cooke as the punter got a leg up to trip Titans returner Chimere Dike at the end of a 47-yard return with 14:06 left. Cooke was hurt and evaluated for a...
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Swiss Voters Reject Mandatory National Service For Women And New Inheritance Tax
Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as men must do already. In a referendum, over 84% of voters rejected the “citizen service initiative” and none of the country’s 26 cantons, or states, came anywhere near voting in...
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Report Says World’s Biggest Arms Producers Increased Revenue By 5.9% Last Year To Record Level
The world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year as demand was fed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as countries’ rising military spending, according to a report released Monday. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, said the revenues of the 100 largest...
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Netanyahu Requests A Pardon To End His Ongoing Corruption Trial In Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel’s legal system over the charges, said the request would help unify the country at a time of momentous...
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Suspect In National Guard Attack Struggled With ‘Dark Isolation’ As Community Raised Concerns
The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weekslong cross-country drives. Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s behavior deteriorated so sharply that a community advocate reached out to a refugee organization for help,...