Oct. 23 (UPI) — Five people sustained injuries in a Saturday morning house explosion located in a small town north of Minneapolis, local authorities said. The explosion occurred around 5:30 a.m. in the town of Cambridge, Minn., WCCO-TV in Minneapolis reported. Authorities told the news outlet they were able to get everyone out of the…
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks at the G20 Riyadh Summit last year. The country’s leader announced on Saturday that it would have net-zero carbon emissions by 2060. File Photo courtesy of EPA Oct. 23 (UPI) — Saudi Arabia will reduce its carbon emissions to net-zero by 2060, the crown prince of the oil-exporting country…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Saturday ambassadors from 10 western diplomats “persona non grata.” File Photo by Eduardo Munoz/UPI | License Photo Oct. 23 (UPI) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that 10 ambassadors from Western countries were not welcome in the country after calls to release Turkish political prisoner Osman Kavala.…
Hurricane Rick formed off the coast of Mexico on Friday. Photo courtesy of NOAA Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast will need to remain on high alert through the weekend as newly formed Hurricane Rick has churned up in the warm tropical waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean. An eight-day lull in tropical activity in the eastern…
Donald Ketterer was convicted of the aggravated murder of an 85-year-old man in 2003. File Photo courtesy of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Oct. 23 (UPI) — An Ohio prisoner’s death sentence has been overturned and he was resentenced to life without chance of parole in response to a new law protecting people…
A University of Nairobi student has died in unclear circumstances in her room. The fifth year veterinary medicine student is reported to have died by suicide. Her lifeless body was found dangling from a scarf tied to the door on Friday. The student’s classmates said she was in high spirits before her death. The news…
Environmental watchdogs Saturday condemned the arrest of six Ugandan rights campaigners as a coordinated effort to silence critics of a contested energy project involving French oil giant Total. The activists from AFIEGO, the country’s highest-profile environmental defenders group, were detained without charge at a police station outside Kampala on Friday, the organisation said in a…
Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua has dismissed claims that she will be ODM leader Raila Odinga’s running mate in the 2022 polls. Ms Karua said she was eyeing the Kirinyaga governor’s seat. “I have not declared to be someone’s running mate nor have I been approached by anybody,” she stated. “I will be running for the…
Mr Olufemi expressed gratitude to the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism and to Premium Times team members for the story. A PREMIUM TIMES report on Nigeria’s defunct paper mills has bagged the best business reporting category of the 2021 West African Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA) held in Accra, Ghana. The story, published last year,…
Suspected gunmen invaded the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town on Friday, around 9.30 p.m. after using dynamite to blast the wall. The Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State Command, says 837 awaiting trial inmates escaped from the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town, when suspected gunmen attacked the facility. Its Public Relations Officer, Olanrewaju Anjorin,…
