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A 75-year-old man has died after being hit by a car in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Police said no one else was hurt and the deceased’s family has been informed. The incident occurred on Wednesday just before 09:00 on Bothwell Road near Hamilton College. The man was struck by a grey Land…
US lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to re-designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern (CPC) for religious freedom violations. Nigeria was first designated as a CPC by the US Department of State in December 2020 due to frequent religious conflicts and Boko Haram attacks. However, it was taken…
A pregnant woman and her husband tragically perished on Thursday in Kannur, north Kerala, after their automobile caught fire, according to authorities. Five persons were inside the automobile, according to the police, and those in the back were able to escape with the assistance of onlookers who were vigilant. According…
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A girl died and 13 others, including three children, were injured in a traffic accident on the road to Kirkuk airport, in Iraq. According to local sources, the accident was caused by a collision between a BMW saloon and a Toyota pickup. The injured people were transferred to Azadi hospital in the city of Kirkuk. Traffic police have not released information about the accident yet. https://twitter.com/gchahal/status/1621149188343078921
While making the ticket transactions for the famous television show host Metin Uca MetinUca, who was at Istanbul Airport to go to Ankara, he learned there was a warrant for his arrest. The police took his statement. Allegedly, the reason why Metin Uca’s statement was taken is that Fatih Sultan Mehmet, who is included in Stefanos Yerasimos’s book “Sultan Tables,” said in his play, “Did I mean this?”. After Metin…
Naira Swap a Temporary but Necessary ‘Pain’ for Nigeria’s Economy says Federal Government
The Federal Government has expressed its concern over the current challenges faced by citizens due to the redesign of the new naira note but has stated that the difficulties are a temporary and necessary “pain” for the growth of Nigeria’s economy. Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, made this known during a weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in Abuja on Thursday. She stated that President…
Approtium, a South Korean hydrogen producer is targeting an offtake up to 500 000 tonnes of ammonia from Hyphen Hydrogen Energy based in Namibia. Hyphen announced Thursday that it had signed ammonia offtake memorandums of understanding with Approtium. Hyphen is developing a green hydrogen project in southern Namibia. Hyphen has recently signed another agreement with RWE Supply and Trading (RWEST) of Germany for the supply of up to 300 000 tonnes of green ammonia a year starting from 2027. Hyphen…
A 41-year-old man was arrested today, red-handed for storing child and youth pornography images in São Gonçalo city, Rio de Janeiro. The arrest took place during the execution of a search and seizure warrant at the criminal’s residence, in an operation by the Federal Police @policiafederal, against the sharing and storage of images with content of child sexual abuse. According to the Federal Police, two HDs and a notebook were seized for expertise. If convicted, the man will be criminally…
According to data released on Thursday, Pakistan’s textile exports fell 12% from the previous year to $1.36 billion in January 2023. In January of the previous fiscal year, textile exports were at $1.55 billion on an annual basis. Data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) show that the textile industry’s exports decreased by 8% between July and January. comparing the $10.8 billion in textile exports from July to January to the $10.93 billion in the same period last year.…
The body of 6-year-old Aya Necmi, a Syrian national, was found in an empty field in Gaziantep, Turkey. Aya Necmi’s body was taken to the forensic medicine institution for autopsy. While the investigation continued, Aya’s mother, Nuhha Cemmel(23), was arrested. It was learned that Nuhha Cemel, who was transferred to the courthouse after her procedures at the police station, said that she received psychological treatment and that she went insane, killed her child by strangling her, and left her in…
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, the leader of the Awami Muslim League (AML), was sent on a two-day physical remand on Thursday by a provincial court in Islamabad in connection with a case brought against him for making accusations against the former president Asif Ali Zardari. Police confirmed this morning that the former minister, a close aide of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, was taken into custody from Murree Motorway. The former premier strongly criticized the arrest. Rashid’s eight-day physical remand…
On Thursday, the Norwegian ambassador in Ankara was called into the Foreign Ministry. According to a statement from the government, the envoy was called after discovering that a Quran burning will occur in a Nordic nation on Friday. https://twitter.com/gchahal/status/1621143917399019526
The Catholic Church in South Sudan will perform special prayers for the safe arrival of Pope Francis, who is set to visit the nation on Friday. Pope Francis is presently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he performed one of his most enormous Masses on Wednesday in Kinshasa, attended by about one million people. Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin stated that the prayers for the Pope’s visit to South Sudan would be conducted at the tomb of former president…
In another step in support of the detainees in Badinan, the US State Department awarded the International Human Rights Defender Award to the head of the team of lawyers for the detainees. Among the 10 winners, who are from different countries around the world, Bashdar Hassan, head of the team of lawyers for detainees in Badinan, received the award on behalf of the team of lawyers for detainees in Duhok. Bashdar Hassan was wearing Kurdish clothes and the Kurdistan and…