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About 60 people including the mayor have been killed in an attack on the village of Banibangou in southwest Niger, two local officials told Reuters. Details of Tuesday's raid on a remote area near the border with Mali were sparse and no group has claimed responsibility, said Zakari Karidjo, a senior official in Banibangou department (county).
Source: reuters.com
Thousands of Iranians have gathered on Tehran streets for the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, and burning American and Israeli flags. General Hossein Salami, chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, denounces the US aggression in the region over past decades.
Source: aljazeera.com
Hollywood actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said he would not use real guns again in his movies after his friend and fellow actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer on a film set in New Mexico last month. Johnson said his production company, Seven Bucks Productions, would "not use real guns ever again."
Source: reuters.com
Actor Will Smith reveals a dark part of his upbringing and the complicated relationship he shared with his late father in a new memoir. In "Will," out November 9, the star describes his dad as a man with dualities. "My father was violent, but he was also at every game, play, and recital. He was an alcoholic, but he was sober at every premiere of every one of my movies," he wrote, according to an excerpt highlighted by People magazine.
Source: cnn.com
A range of chocolate cupcakes is being recalled in eight US states because they may contain tiny fragments of metal mesh wire. People are being told not to eat the multi-pack Tastykake products, which were on sale in over 500 Walmart shops. The company which makes the cakes, Flowers Foods - one of the biggest US bakery brands - says it decided to recall the products after a vendor warned they could be contaminated. No injuries have been reported.
Source: bbc.com
Rescue operations enter a fourth day after a 21-storey building collapsed in the Ikoyi district of Lagos.
Source: aljazeera.com
The rapper and businessman made a profile on the social media platform on Tuesday (2 November) to promote The Harder They Fall, a new western film released on Netflix. Jay-Z has produced the film, which stars Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba and Regina King. Shortly after setting the account live, Jay-Z racked up 1.9 million followers, one of whom was singer Beyoncé, his wife of 13 years. At the time of writing, Jay-Z is the only person Beyoncé follows – and also the only person he follows.
Source: independent.co.uk
Bolivia's highlands city of La Paz has been hit by an unusual heatwave, with levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation soaring off the charts, exacerbated by unusually low levels of cloud cover some experts link to climate change. Levels of UV radiation have at times in recent weeks hit 21 on a scale that normally only goes up as far as 20. According to the World Health Organization, a UV index of 11 is regarded as "extreme," with people cautioned to avoid exposure to the sun.
Source: cnn.com
Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s consultative body, the Council of State, has approved his proposal to dissolve Parliament after lawmakers rejected the government’s 2022 budget bill last week, paving the way for a snap election. A statement from the president’s office said a majority of council members approved the dissolution of Parliament, but it did not say when a snap election could take place.
Source: aljazeera.com
Diamond bracelets that belonged to Marie Antoinette and a ruby and diamond bangle offered to the Duchess of Windsor by her husband on their first wedding anniversary will be on the auction block in Geneva next week, Christie's said on Wednesday. The bracelets, now the property of a European royal family, are expected to fetch $2-4 million at the Nov. 9 auction, Christie's said.
Source: reuters.com
Manchester United have revealed Raphael Varane will be ruled out for up to a month after suffering a hamstring injury, adding to the French defender's troubled start at Old Trafford. Varane was forced off in the first half of United's 2-2 draw at Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Source: france24.com
The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins to be found in England has been declared treasure at an inquest. Four gold objects were discovered with 131 coins in a field in west Norfolk, most by the same anonymous metal detectorist who notified the appropriate authorities. Ten coins were found by a serving police officer who tried to sell them and was jailed for 16 months. Norwich Castle hopes to acquire the "internationally significant" hoard.
Source: bbc.com
Biden administration says Israeli company’s spyware enables ‘repression’, used to target journalists and activists.
Source: aljazeera.com
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they thwarted an attempt by the United States to detain a tanker carrying the Islamic Republic's oil in the Sea of Oman. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Iranian report was not true and there had been no American attempt to seize a tanker. The American officials said that in reality Iranian forces had seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month and U.S. naval forces were just monitoring the situation.
Source: reuters.com
The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said Wednesday it has killed 145 Huthi rebels in 24 hours in air raids near Marib, the final northern stronghold of pro-government forces. The coalition, which backs Yemen's internationally recognised government, has reported near-daily strikes over the past three weeks that it claims have now inflicted more than 2,000 lives among the Iran-backed Huthi rebels.
Source: france24.com
Two people died and one was injured after an elderly man fell seven floors and hit two people at a concert hall in Uppsala, Sweden yesterday, police have said. The man who fell was in his 80s and died alongside a man in his 60s who he fell onto at the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. A third person - a woman in her 60s - was also injured in the incident which took place before 7pm local time (8pm GMT), Swedish police confirmed.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The World Health Organization granted an emergency use license Wednesday to a coronavirus vaccine developed in India, offering reassurance for a shot the country’s regulators allowed long before advanced safety and efficacy testing was completed. The U.N. health agency said in a statement that it had authorized Covaxin, made by India’s Bharat Biotech. The action makes Covaxin the eighth COVID-19 vaccine to receive WHO’s green light.
Source: apnews.com
At least 11 people have died in a landslide in Colombia’s western Narino province, according to authorities, with dozens more hurt or missing. The South American country’s disaster relief agency (UNGRD) said late on Tuesday that the landslide occurred after heavy rains in the rural town of Mallama.
Source: aljazeera.com
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