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*15-Year-Old Too *Police Also Nab Man Who Rents Brothel To Them A complaint lodged by a Nigerian commercial sex worker to the local police authorities in Dabiasem, Koforidua, Ghana, has led to the arrest of 15 young prostitutes, one of them said to be a 15-year-old minor, a woman alleged to be their mistress, her colleagues, and a man who rented out the building from where the odious profession was being transacted. The New Juaben South Municipal Police Command raided the suspected brothel and rounded up the women over alleged involvement in commercial sex activities and human trafficking. The suspects,…

*US Moves To Reshape Venezuelan Thinking To Her Taste In the days after President Nicolás Maduro was abducted by US Special Forces, hundreds of journalists from as far away as Japan flocked to Colombia’s border with Venezuela hoping to witness the fallout from one of the most dramatic moments in South America’s recent history. None were granted visas to enter. Those who tried to do so anyway were detained and thrown out. But last weekend a team of reporters was finally allowed to visit Caracas,the Venezuelan capital. Not the award-winning correspondents from outlets like CNN, Sky News and the BBC,…

*One Lost Husband, Other Lost Two Babies Providence smiled on two Nigerian women who were among 55 persons traveling on a boat illegally from North Africa to Europe when the vessel capsized on the Mediterranean, killing most with several still missing, except the duo. Both women were later rescued. United Nations (UN) agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said the boat overturned north of Zuwara, off the Libyan coast, last Friday. “Only two Nigerian women were rescued during a search and rescue operation by Libyan authorities,” the IOM said in a statement. One of the survivors said she lost…

The head of Iran’s Reformists Front, the organisation that was instrumental in securing the election of the country’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, has been arrested by the dreaded Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in a move that will probably deepen tensions over the handling of the recent street protests in which tens of thousands were reportedly killed by security forces. Pezeshkian has set up an inquiry into the protests, but it is unlikely to be critical of the IRGC, and the arrests of his former supporters show how little influence he wields over the key decision-makers in the government --a point…

*'I Thought They Were Scam Calls' *'I'll Use Part Of Money To Spoil My Husband' A woman from South Africa's Western Cape narrowly avoided losing more than R834,000 (over N72m) in Lotto winnings after ignoring dozens of phone calls, arriving at lottery operator Ithuba office on the last day her ticket could legally be claimed. “I couldn’t believe it. I had gone from attending a funeral to claiming over R800,000 on the very same day. It was emotional, overwhelming and completely unexpected,” she said. According to Sowetan newspaper, the ticket was bought on 5 February, 2025 through the Absa banking…

Exiled Iranian journalists working for the BBC have been warned their movements are being closely monitored by the state, as they said their families in Iran were being interrogated and persecuted for their reporting. Journalists said family members had been threatened with arrest and the seizure of their assets unless their loved ones stopped reporting on Iranian unrest. The Guardian UK was told of instances in which the parents of journalists had been warned that Iran’s security forces knew where and when they worked, as well as the position of their desk in the newsroom. Staff working for BBC Persian,…

*'Error Came From A White House Employee' Following an intense backlash, the White House has now taken down Trump’s Truth Social repost of a video showing a racist clip depicting the Obamas as apes. Multiple outlets cite a senior White House official as saying: "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down." The post was up for 12 hours. The White House had initially tried to brush off the outrage, defending Trump’s repost as “an internet meme video." “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and…

Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should President Donald Trump try to sabotage the November midterm elections, which will determine who controls Congress, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt." Earlier this week the US President called for Republicans, his party members, to “take over” and “nationalise” voting in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud. On Thursday, Gallego, a senator for Arizona and an Iraq war veteran, warned that Trump could seek to interfere with the midterms –and urged citizens to…

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and for years the second most powerful person in the country, has been killed in a village south-west of Tripoli, officials said on Tuesday night. The 53-year-old died from gunshot wounds in the town of Zintan, 85 miles south-west of the capital, according to the Libyan attorney general’s office. Gaddafi’s own office said he was killed in his home by masked assailants. Once seen as a pro-Western reformer who might usher Libya towards constitutional change, Gaddafi quickly backed his father’s violent crackdown on nationwide popular protests in 2011.…

*Police Move In *He Came To Her Church Very Ill, Got Healed, Then Married Her *Feared Wife's Relatives In Nigeria Would Seek Repatriation Of Body Shock and outrage greeted revelations that an 80-year-old Nigerian female cleric in Ghana has been secretly buried by her Ghanaian husband in their bedroom. They were married for 11 years. The Assin Fosu District Court, presided over by Abdul Majid Iliasu, has remanded the 44-year-old man, identified as Kwaku Charles, for allegedly burying his wife in their bedroom at Twifo Nuamakrom in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa District, Central Region of the West African country. Charles was…