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A tourist was k!lled by an elephant in front of her boyfriend while on vacation in Thailand, according to reports.  Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, was bathing an elephant at Koh Yao Elephant Care on Yao Yai Island on Friday, Jan. 3, when the 50-year-old animal struck her down with its trunk, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.  García, a law and …

About 102 men were executed by the Congolese government in the past week, and 70 more are set to be executed, the country’s minister of justice has revealed. Speaking on Sunday night, January 5, 2025, Minister of Justice Mutamba, in a statement to the Associated Press, said the men, aged 18 to 35, were armed robbers and “urban bandits,” locally known …

No fewer than four persons were burnt to de@th while three others sustained various degrees of injuries following the explosion of a diesel-laden tanker at Agbor town in Delta State on Sunday, January 5.   The diesel tanker was said to have suffered a brake failure and fell at a traffic light junction at Agbor, which resulted in an explosion …

\South Korean police on Thursday raided Muan International Airport and Jeju Air’s office just days after the airline’s horror crash that k!lled 179 passengers.   The Jeonanam Provincial Police launched a search and seizure operation into the southwest South Korea airport and the airline’s office in Seoul.   Authorities also swarmed the Muan office of the Busan Regional Office of Aviation, Yonhap News Agency …

Former Russian international footballer, Aleksei Bugayev, 43,  has been k!lled while fighting in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “Unfortunately, the news about Aleksei’s death is true. It happened today,” TASS news agency quoted the player’s father Ivan Bugayev as telling the Sport24 news outlet.   RIA news agency quoted Bugayev’s agent, Anton Smirnov, as saying intense fighting had …

Russian President, Vladimir Putin on Saturday, December 28,  apologised to Azerbaijan’s leader for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but refused to acknowledge that Moscow was responsible. The apology came amid mounting allegations that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defences attempting to deflect …

At least 69 people lost their lives after a boat traveling from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands capsized off the coast of Morocco on December 19, according to Malian authorities. The makeshift vessel was carrying around 80 passengers, leaving only 11 survivors, Mali’s Ministry of Malians Abroad confirmed after reconstructing the incident.   The ministry announced the establishment of …

Gloria George’s life took a devastating turn when her 34-year-old son, Horsefall Rowland, was found dead after a harrowing kidnapping ordeal. Rowland failed to return home on the night of September 10, 2024, after informing his mother he was attending a meeting along Peter Odili Road and the Government Reserved Area (GRA) in Port Harcourt.   According to Vanguard, Rowland …

An assault on the Yemeni capital Sanaa’s capital airport and the western city of Hodeidah on Thursday, December 26, killed at least six people and injured dozens more as a “high-level UN delegation,” led by World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was due to fly out of it, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said in a …

A Russian surface-to-air missile was responsible for the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432, which killed 38 passengers, Azerbaijani media reports.  Azerbaijani officials cited by the Baku-based news agency AnewZ said preliminary findings suggest the missile was fired from a Russian Pantsir-S defence system as the plane approached Grozny in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya on Wednesday morning, December 25. …