A patrol car of the Lagos State Security drives through Nigerian protesters demonstrating in the streets of Alausa Ikeja on October 20, 2020 after the authorities declared an open-ended lockdown in Lagos in the face of spiralling protests. BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP/Getty Lagos, Nigeria — Nigeria’s sprawling city...
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Nigeria protests: Eyewitnesses say security forces fired at protesters
Demonstrators have taken part in daily protests across the country for nearly two weeks over widespread claims of kidnapping, harassment, and extortion by a police unit know as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Tuesday saw the state governor impose a 24-hour curfew and deploy anti-riot...
Nigeria protests: Eyewitnesses say security forces fired at protesters
Demonstrators have taken part in daily protests across the country for nearly two weeks over widespread claims of kidnapping, harassment, and extortion by a police unit know as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Tuesday saw the state governor impose a 24-hour curfew and deploy anti-riot...
US marine says Australian special forces soldiers made ‘deliberate decision to break the rules of war’
A United States Marines helicopter crew chief says Australian special forces shot and killed a bound Afghan prisoner after being told he would not fit on the US aircraft coming to pick them up. Key points: A US marine says Australians were known to leave...
Lefthand Canyon Fire grows to more than 100 acres, forces evacuations in Boulder County foothills
A wildfire that started on a property in the 14,000 block of Lefthand Canyon Drive has grown to more than 100 acres and has now prompted evacuations for Ward, Sunshine Canyon and Gold Hill. Ward, along with homes along Spring Gulch Road and on the...
Fire forces evacuation of Westmead Hospital ER
Emergency crews arrived at the hospital about 7pm after reports of a fire in an electrical substation in the hospital’s basement. The entire emergency department was evacuated, with 60 patients and 140 staff setting up an interim emergency department in another location on the hospital’s...