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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BEGINS NATIONWIDE CONVERSION OF MASS TRANSIT BUSES
The Federal Government has announced the commencement of the Nationwide Mass Transit Conversion Programme which entails the conversion of diesel and petrol-powered mass transit buses to run on Compressed Natural Gas. Abuja, Lagos, Kwara and Rivers states have been picked as locations for the first phase of the mass transit buses’ conversion programme before it…
BIDEN UNVEILS ISREALI PROPOSAL TO END GAZA WAR
US President Joe Biden has urged Hamas to accept a new Israeli proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, saying that “it’s time for this war to end”. The three-part proposal would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza. There would also be…
POLICE TO HOST LIVE ONLINE EVENT AFTER STABBING
Police will be answering questions from the public about their safety following a fatal stabbing on a beach. Amie Gray, 34, was one of two women who were attacked on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth on 24 May. Dorset Police said the incident had “shocked” the community and it would be hosting a question and answer event…
WOMAN HAS PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT REMOVED AFTER ISSUES, BACK ON DIALYSIS
A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, and NYU Langone Health announced that she is stable after an operation to remove the organ earlier this…
BILLIONAIRE PLANS DIVE TO TITANIC FOLLOWING TRAGIC OCEANGATE SUBMERSIBLE IMPLOSION THAT KILLED 5 PASSAGERS
An Ohio billionaire is preparing to launch a voyage to the wreckage of the Titanic buried deep under the sea — less than a year after the Titan submersible catastrophically imploded on its descent to the infamous icon, killing five passengers on board. Larry Connor, a real estate and tech entrepreneur, and explorer who has been to…
GUILTY VERDICT WILL LIKELY NOT AFFECT PLANS FOR INTEL BRIEFINGS FOR TRUMP
The guilty verdict Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial likely will not affect plans by U.S. intelligence agencies to provide him with briefings after he is formally named the Republican presidential nominee, a U.S. official told NBC News. The intelligence briefings for presidential nominees are not mandated by law but are a…
12-YEAR-OLD TRIUMPHS AT UNITED STATES SPELLING BEE
Mastering words such as “cricetine” and “indumentum”, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma clinched victory on Thursday in the United States spelling bee. The seventh-grade student from St. Petersburg, Florida, beamed as colorful confetti rained down after he won the tiebreaker. “Bruhat Soma from Florida cemented his win by correctly spelling his final word, ‘abseil’,” organizer Scripps National…
SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER FICO RELEASED TO HOME AFTER ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has moved to home care from a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where he had been recovering from an assassination attempt, the hospital said on Friday. An attacker shot Fico with four bullets at close range when the prime minister greeted supporters at a government meeting in the central Slovak town of…
ALABAMA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED ELDERLY COUPLE IN 2004
An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the killing of an elderly couple in 2004, the first inmate put to death by the state since it became the first in the nation to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas months ago. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at a…
‘AMBUSHED’ POLICE OFFICER AMONG 3 KILLED IN MINNEAPOLIS GUNFIRE
A Minneapolis police officer was “ambushed” and killed by a gunman he was trying to help, a suspect was fatally shot by police, and a third person was found dead in an apartment as violence unfolded Thursday, officials said. Police responded to a report of a double shooting at an apartment on Blaisdell Avenue, and…