Quansah leaves Liverpool after 17 years, joins Bayer Leverkusen for £30m + £5m add-ons

Quansah leaves Liverpool after 17 years, joins Bayer Leverkusen for £30m + £5m add-ons

Bayer Leverkusen have completed the signing of Jarell Quansah from Liverpool. Quansah has been at Liverpool since the age of five. He was promoted to the first team by former manager Jürgen Klopp in 2022 but didn’t make his debut until 27 August 2023 against Newcastle United. He made 57 appearances for the Reds and won the Premier League and three EFL Cup titles. The 22-year-old said goodbye to Liverpool fans, teammates, and staff on his social media handles: “From the moment I walked through the doors of the Academy at 5 years old, I dreamed of one day wearing...

Fireworks Warehouse Explodes In Yolo County, California, Destroying Two Homes

Fireworks Warehouse Explodes In Yolo County, California, Destroying Two Homes

Emergency crews in Esparto California, are urging residents in the area to evacuate following a massive explosion at a fireworks factory. A towering plume of black smoke is visible for miles, and multiple explosions have reportedly engulfed several structures on the property. The fire has also sparked additional spot fires nearby. The sheriff’s office has issued a one-mile evacuation order around the impacted zone. It’s currently unclear if anyone was injured, and the cause of the explosion remains unknown. This is a developing story

Video: Officials Caught FCMB Intruder Trying To Hack Into Bank System After Office Hour

Video: Officials Caught FCMB Intruder Trying To Hack Into Bank System After Office Hour

A suspected intruder caused panic at an FCMB Abuja branch after sneaking into the bank through the toilet and hiding inside the ceiling overnight. According to eyewitnesses, the man entered the bank during official hours and quietly locked himself in the restroom, hiding in the ceiling and waited until all staff had left.  By morning, staff arrived to find the door mysteriously locked from the inside. After forcing it open, they discovered the man attempting to tamper with bank systems, some of which began flashing “restarting, click ok to accept” when powered on. Bank security and the Nigerian police were...

Costa Rica’s Top Court Seeks To Strip President Chaves’ Immunity Over Corruption Case

Costa Rica’s Top Court Seeks To Strip President Chaves’ Immunity Over Corruption Case

Costa Rica’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the country’s legislature to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity so he can stand trial on corruption charges. Chaves, accused of awarding lucrative consulting contracts to a close associate, has denied wrongdoing. His office did not immediately comment on the ruling, which justices decided in a 15-to-7 vote. Costa Rica’s top court has never before accepted a request to revoke a president’s immunity. The case now goes to Congress, which is dominated by opposition lawmakers and has the final say. Prosecutors accuse Chaves of abusing his authority in diverting part of a $32,000...

Venezuelan Lawmakers Criticises And Declare UN Human Rights Chief Persona Non Grata Over US Immigrant Deportation Policy

Venezuelan Lawmakers Criticises And Declare UN Human Rights Chief Persona Non Grata Over US Immigrant Deportation Policy

 Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, persona non grata, criticizing the U.N. official for failing to protect the rights of Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. The rare diplomatic designation has no immediate practical effect but reflected the broader anger of President Nicolás Maduro at the U.N. agency that monitors and defends human rights. It comes just days after Türk said his office has documented increasing arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and torture under Maduro’s government. “Türk turns a blind eye to atrocious crimes,” said National Assembly...

Man Who Killed His Family After His Wife Sought A Divorce Is Set For Execution In Florida

Man Who Killed His Family After His Wife Sought A Divorce Is Set For Execution In Florida

A man who killed his wife and two children in 1994 after she sought a divorce is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Edward J. Zakrzewski, II, is set to die July 31 in the ninth execution scheduled for this year in the state. He pleaded guilty in 1996 to three counts of first-degree murder and received three death sentences in the killings of wife Sylvia Zakrzewski, son Edward Zakrzewski, 7, and Anna Zakrzewski, 5. The man beat his wife with a crowbar and machete and strangled her to death and killed...

Snake On A Plane Delays A Flight In Australia

Snake On A Plane Delays A Flight In Australia

 An Australian domestic flight was delayed for two hours after a stowaway snake was found in the plane’s cargo hold, officials said on Wednesday. The snake was found on Tuesday as passengers were boarding Virgin Australia Flight VA337 at Melbourne Airport bound for Brisbane, according to snake catcher Mark Pelley. The snake turned out to be a harmless 60-centimeter (2-foot) green tree snake. But Pelly said he thought it could be venomous when he approached it in the darkened hold. “It wasn’t until after I caught the snake that I realized that it wasn’t venomous. Until that point, it looked very dangerous...

Turkey Detains 120 Opposition Officials Including Former Mayor

Turkey Detains 120 Opposition Officials Including Former Mayor

Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained a former mayor and dozens of municipality officials in the western city of Izmir over alleged corruption, extending a crackdown against the country’s main opposition party. Police detained 120 officials from the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, including former Izmir Mayor Tunc Soyer and the party’s provincial leader Senol Aslanoglu, state-run Anadolu Agency said. In total, the Izmir Public Prosecutor’s Office issued arrest warrants against 157 officials as part of an investigation into alleged rigging of municipality tenders and fraud, it added. Officials from CHP-controlled municipalities in Istanbul and elsewhere have faced waves of arrests this...