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Lagos, NIGERIA: A Nigerian flag flies at half mast at a Lagos public building 24 October 2005. The Nigerian government has declared a three-day national mourning in honour of 117 passengers who died in a Bellview air crash at Lissa village in Ifo district southwest Nigeria. (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

At Least 140 People Killed In Nigeria Fuel Tanker Explosion

Over 140 people were killed and dozens were left wounded Tuesday night after a fuel tanker crashed and then exploded in Nigeria, local officials stated.

Maxuella Lisowa Mbaka of Belgium in action against Satou Sabally of Germany REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Basketball-U.S. on target for eighth gold after beating Japan, France upset Canada

The US romped to a resounding 102-76 victory over Japan in the women’s basketball tournament at the Pierre Mauroy stadium on Monday.

A general view of writing on a wall outside a classroom at Kuriga school in Kuririga on March 8, 2024, where more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen. Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on March 8, 2024 sent troops to rescue more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the country's northwest in one of the largest mass abductions in three years. The Kaduna state attack was the second mass kidnapping in a week in Africa's most populous state, where heavily armed criminal gangs on motorbikes target victims in villages and schools and along highways in the hunt for ransom payments. Local government officials in Kaduna State confirmed the kidnapping attack on Kuriga school on March 7, 2024, but they have still not given figures as they said they were still working out how many children had been abducted. (Photo by Haidar Umar / AFP) (Photo by HAIDAR UMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Nigeria: Nearly 300 Kidnapped School Children Released After 2-Week Abduction

Almost 300 abducted Nigerian school children have been freed, over two weeks after the adolescents were taken from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna.

Miley Cyrus accepts the award for Best Pop Solo Performance for "Flowers" during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/ File photo

Miley Cyrus hit ‘Flowers’ named best-selling single of 2023 in IFPI chart

Miley Cyrus the first time the U.S. singer-songwriter has topped the chart run by industry body the IFPI.

TOPSHOT-NIGERIA-UNREST-KIDNAPPING TOPSHOT - A mother hugs her daughter on July 25, 2021 after she was released together with other 27 students of the Bethel Baptist High School. - Gunmen who seized 121 students at a high school in northwestern Nigeria in early July have released 28 of them, a school official told AFP on Sunday. The attackers stormed Bethel Baptist High School in northwestern Kaduna state on July 5, abducting students who were sleeping in their dorms. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

At Least 20 Students Abducted By Gunmen In Nigeria

At least 20 students in northwestern Nigeria have been abducted by gunmen in an attack that targeted their school.