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October 2024

One dead, many trapped as 10-storey hotel collapses in Argentina

In Argentina, a 10-story hotel collapsed, killing one person and trapping numerous others in the wreckage.   In Villa Gesell, a seaside community 350 kilometres south of the capital Buenos Aires, firefighters looking for survivors pulled a woman from the wreckage of the Dubrovnik Hotel. The building collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday, October […]

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Tinubu is not T-pain. He is working very hard to make sure he gives Nigerians some relief – Presidency

Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu, has addressed the rising criticism surrounding the nickname “T-pain,” a social media moniker for Tinubu.    The term “T-pain,” a combination of “Tinubu” and “pain,” reflects public frustration over Nigeria’s economic challenges and has been widely used online. In an interview with Channels

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French student kills himself after getting a botched beard transplant ‘by an estate agent pretending to be a surgeon

After an estate agent posing as a surgeon botched his beard transplant in Turkey, a French man committed suicide.     For the €1,300 transplant, Mathieu Vigier Latour flew to Istanbul in March, according to Mail Online. However, as a result of the procedure, he lost 1,000 hair grafts and had 4,000 moved from his

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Israel Struck Air Defenses Around Critical Iranian Energy Sites, Officials Say

Israel’s attacks on Iran early Saturday destroyed air-defense systems set up to protect several critical oil and petrochemical refineries, as well as systems guarding a large gas field and a major port in southern Iran, according to three Iranian officials and three senior Israeli defense officials. The sites targeted by Israel, according to the officials, included

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X suspends new account of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his reaction to Israeli missile attacks.

The social platform X has suspended a new account of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that posted messages in Hebrew. A note on the account says it has been suspended for violating X’s rules and the suspension comes hours after the account posted a message about this weekend’s Israeli attack on Tehran. Before the Elon

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Presidency permanently confirms Betta Edu’s exit from cabinet.

The Presidency has officially ruled out any possibility of former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Betta Edu, returning to President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.  Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga disclosed this Sunday, October 27, during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.  Recall that Tinubu suspended the minister in January following a national outcry over

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“I know my mother’s in Heaven. I’m not so sure about my father” – Trump

Former US President Donald Trump mused on whether his father made it to Heaven as he speculated what the late Fred Trump’s reaction would be to all the criminal  investigations against him. Trump lamented that he was under investigation more than the “great late Alphonse Capone,” to a packed crowd of some 20,000 people at

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