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Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala on Saturday (October 4) acknowledged defeat in the parliamentary elections to billionaire Andrej Babiš’s ANO party,...
At least 11 people were killed and more than 70 others, including women and children, were kidnapped by armed men on motorbikes in Sabongarin Damri, a village in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria, according to witnesses.
The assailants opened fire as they rode into the village late Saturday, spreading panic among residents.
"They came on motorcycles, shooting randomly before abducting our daughters and children. As of today, we haven’t heard anything from them," said local resident Isa Sani.
The region has been the epicenter of recurring violence and mass abductions by groups known locally as 'bandits,' who often demand ransom and hold captives for months.
One resident, Sufiyanu Ibrahim, said he was shot in the leg and that his wife was among those taken. “There were gunshots everywhere... I narrowly escaped,” he said.
Sabongarin Damri’s traditional leader, Shehu Musa, confirmed that more than 60 individuals were taken in the raid.
The continued violence has forced thousands to flee and disrupted farming and travel in Zamfara, which shares a border with Niger.
Between April and July, Nigerian authorities arrested more than 2,100 suspects and rescued 175 kidnap victims from similar bandit groups across the northwest and central regions, according to the National Orientation Agency.
Zamfara police have yet to comment on the most recent attack.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday via a social media post that Israel has agreed on an “initial withdrawal line” for Gaza, which has also been communicated to Hamas.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday called on Palestinian group Hamas to act swiftly in ongoing hostage release and peace negotiations in the Gaza Strip.
A total of 137 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, including 36 Turkish nationals, landed at Istanbul Airport on Saturday after being intercepted and detained by Israel in international waters.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala on Saturday (October 4) acknowledged defeat in the parliamentary elections to billionaire Andrej Babiš’s ANO party, but affirmed that the country would remain a part of the West.
Two tourists have died in an accident on Vilyuchinsky Volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. According to regional authorities, the incident occurred during an unregistered climb, with one man pronounced dead at the scene and a woman later succumbing to her severe injuries.
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