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Court Upholds Life Sentence For Two Nigerians Over Drugs Smuggling In Cambodia

In 2014, two Nigerian cloth vendors, Emmanuel Thankgod and Michael Sunshine were arrested for their involvement in drug trafficking from Brazil to Cambodia.
In 2014, two Nigerian cloth vendors, Emmanuel Thankgod and Michael Sunshine were arrested for their involvement in drug trafficking from Brazil to Cambodia. An Appeal Court in Phnom Penh in Cambodia has upheld the life sentence given by the municipal court to two Nigerian men, a Filipina and Cambodian woman, in connection with smuggling of more than 2.5 kilogrammes of cocaine. In 2014, two Nigerian cloth vendors, Emmanuel Thankgod and Michael Sunshine were arrested for their involvement in drug trafficking from Brazil to Cambodia. Others arrested are 49-year-old former nurse from Philippines, Macoy Mavill Villamor and Cambodian Meng Sinuon, aRead More

Suicide Car Bomb Kills 30 Afghan Security Officials

Afghan security officials
A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 30 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in recent months. TheRead More

Two Nigerian Men, One Woman Arrested In Cambodia For Alleged Cyber Crime

Two suspected Nigerian internet fraudsters in Cambodia
Two Nigerian nationals and a local woman have been arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for their alleged involvement in online scam. General Lieutenant Neth Savoeun, the director of National Police,Read More

Eight Killed, 28 Injured In Afghan Gov’s Convoy Attack

Afghan suicide attack
A suicide attack targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed at least eight people on Monday, officials said, as the president travelled to Qatar where peace talks with the Taliban haveRead More

Israel, UAE Strike Historic Deal To Normalise Relations

Ex-US President, Donald Trump
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to normalise relations, US President, Donald Trump has announced. A joint statement by Mr. Trump, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and AbuRead More

Man Arrested For Stabbing Hong Kong Officer

Hong Kong
A man suspected of stabbing a Hong Kong police officer in the shoulder during a protest was arrested on board a flight that was about to take off for London,Read More

Critics Slam Pakistan PM For Saying Bin Laden Was “Martyred”

Osama bin Laden
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan faced a growing backlash Thursday after he said former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been “martyred”. Khan made the comment in parliament as heRead More

Hushpuppi, Gang Defrauded 1,926,400 People, Made N168bn – Dubai Police

Hushpuppi
The Dubai Police Force, United Arab Emirates, has revealed how it arrested Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, aka Hushpuppi. In a video released on its official Twitter handle on Thursday,Read More

Saudi Arabia To Allow 1,000 Pilgrims Perform Hajj

Muslim pilgrims at the Kaaba
Saudi Arabia will allow around 1,000 pilgrims residing in the kingdom to perform the hajj this year, a minister said Tuesday, after it announced the ritual would be scaled backRead More

Influencer Anastasia Tropitsel Dead At 18, In 60mph Bali Motorcycle Crash Three Years After Blogging Made Her A Millionaire

Anastasia Tropitsel posing on her motorbike
A young social media influencer who became a millionaire at 15 has died in a motorbike smash on Bali. Russian Anastasia Tropitsel, 18, suffered head injuries when she crashed onRead More

Coronavirus: 19 Staff Test Positive In Azerbaijan President’s Office

Coronavirus disease 2019, otherwise known as COVID-19
No fewer than 19 staff in the office of Azerbaijan’s president have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said, as authorities in the repressive Caucasus nation struggle to contain the spreadRead More