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*Firm Suspends Two An elderly woman filmed after allegedly being caught shoplifting at Shoprite has received an outpouring of support after the video sparked concern among South Africans. In the footage, a female security guard is seen searching the woman and removing items including a small bag of rice, chicken pieces, beef stew, green pepper and body lotion. In some climes, the woman would first be beaten black and blue before police comes to the rescue. But in South Africa, the incident quickly became a wider conversation about poverty, dignity and the struggles faced by elderly people as citizens of…

*Was Influenced By Reading Extremist Literature, Online Content Glorifying Terrorist Organisations, Suicide Attacks *'Prepared Himself For The Operation By Training In Aviation' The co-pilot who tried to seize control of a passenger jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was planning to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Israel’s international airport, prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Friday. The airport handles about 53,000 passengers daily. Hammam al-Hammami attacked the plane’s Indian pilot with an emergency axe, but failed to prevent his badly injured colleague from opening the cockpit’s security door to allow…

*Must Face Court After Hospital Discharge - Police Ghana Police Service (GPS) has said it will arraign Harold Norman, husband of actress and fashion personality Rosamond Akua Adobea, popularly known as Nana Akua, immediately after his discharge from hospital. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) said Mr Norman was due to appear before the court yesterday, 7 October, 2026, but his lawyer informed the Police that he had been admitted to hospital and was unable to appear, according to a report in ghanagraphiconline. In a statement, the CID said investigators from the country's Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) had…

*Murder From Jealousy In Teen Love Crush Landed Her In Prison *'We Continue To Ask The Governor Of Tennessee To Commute Christa Pike’s Sentence To Life Imprisonment' *'I Was A Mentally Ill 18-Year-Old Kid. It Took Me Numerous Years To Even Realize Gravity Of What I’d Done... It Sickens Me Now To Think I'd The Ability To Commit Such Crime' Christa Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said on Tuesday, 6 October. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee…

*China’s National Intelligence Law Requires Its Companies To Assist The Country's Intelligence Services *Nigerians Await NIA Input Drivers have been warned that the smart features built into modern cars such as microphones, cameras and GPS trackers could be used by hostile countries and entities to spy on them. The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), which sounded the alarm, called for “awareness of espionage risks around modern vehicles," including microphones that can be switched on remotely to listen to conversations. It did not mention an individual country, but the warning will add to concerns around a recent boom in…

*'Tehran Regime Will Collapse' It was a day of high drama yesterday in New York City (NYC) at the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) when hundreds of protesters, including prominent actors and local politicians, swarmed the UN headquarters venue of the gathering to call for Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest — and many found themselves in cuffs instead. The protest began around noon and was organized by Jewish Voices For Peace and the opposition Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to block traffic near the UN to call out Netanyahu’s war in Gaza and the ongoing conflict in…

*US Denies Visa To Iranian President's Delegation To UNGA Three news outlets, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, said they were suing the Trump administration ⁠to protect their First Amendment ​rights after ‌President Donald Trump’s ‌announcement that he would ban ‌them from the White House’s building grounds. The First Amendment protects five core freedoms from government interference: religion, speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. The three news outlets said they had notified the government that they were ‌filing their lawsuit in the US District Court for ​the District of Columbia and could see emergency hearings in…

Kemi Badenoch has accused UK Prime Minister (PM) Andy Burnham of “fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning”, as she repeated her call for the PM to cut the welfare budget to fund increased spending on defence. Speaking to the Telegraph, the Tory leader, who grew up in Nigeria before emigrating to Britain where she presently heads UK's second largest political party, said that “Burnham may be a people pleaser but difficult choices cannot be avoided through dither and delay." She said the government had to “fund our defence properly” at a time when former military chiefs have raised…

Two Nigerians are among seven persons arrested in the United States (US) for allegedly illegally voting in past elections in the global superpower and for naturalization offence. One of them was paraded before Fox News crew. They were all indicted. Indictments and complaints are allegations and defendants are constitutionally presumed innocent until proven guilty. The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas disclosed news of the arrests and indictments in a statement, sighted by People&Politics Tuesday night. The paper's checks on the Attorney's official website showed that the two Nigerians, a female and a male, were named as…

*He Had A Secret Son, But Kingmakers Pick Cousin Instead *President Museveni, Archbishop Express Concern Uganda's King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, once the world's youngest reigning monarch, was buried yesterday (Saturday), days after a row broke out over who would succeed him. People&Politics had reported, quoting Ugandan and Western media, that the 34-year-old Oyo, who had ruled the traditional kingdom of Tooro in western Uganda since the age of three, died last month while undergoing cancer treatment in the US. Tooro is one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms, which were abolished in 1967 but restored in the 1990s under…