ru24.pro
News in English
Июль
2024

Новости за 08.07.2024

LASTMA records 256 casualties in six months

The Punch 

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has disclosed that it recorded 256 casualties on the roads across the state from January 2024 to June  2024.  The LASTMA General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, confirmed this in a statement made available to our correspondent on Sunday.  Bakare-Oki said 265 casualties were recorded during the first half of the

Читать дальше...

Meet David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance and Paramount’s New Owner - The New York Times

Top Stories (us) - Google News (ru) 

  1. Meet David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance and Paramount’s New Owner  The New York Times
  2. Paramount Global Agrees to Skydance Deal  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Paramount's special committee approves Skydance merger  Axios
  4. Special committee of Paramount Global endorses plan to merge with Skydance Media, source says  New York Post
  5. Paramount Board's Special Committee Approves Skydance Merger  Bloomberg

Bangladeshi protesters demand end to civil service job quotas

Voice of America 

Dhaka, Bangladesh — Thousands of Bangladeshi university students threw roadblocks across key highways Sunday, demanding the end of "discriminatory" quotas for coveted government jobs, including reserving posts for children of liberation heroes. Students in almost all major universities took part, demanding a merit-based system for well-paid and massively over-subscribed civil service jobs. "It's a do-or-die situation for us," protest coordinator Nahidul Islam told AFP, during marches at Dhaka University. Читать дальше...

Telcos record 2.4% voice subscription decline over NIN/SIM linkage

The Punch 

Nigeria’s telecom sector experienced a 2.4 per cent decline in active voice subscriptions in the first quarter of 2024, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. This decline comes as the Nigeria Communications Commission and the telcos continue to enforce the National Identification Number-Subscriber Identity Module linkage policy. The NBS report shows that

Читать дальше...

Brewers blast Dodgers to avoid sweep

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

(Photo credit: Jason Parkhurst-USA TODAY Sports) Christian Yelich and Blake Perkins each had three hits -- including a home run -- and three RBIs to help the visiting Milwaukee Brewers avoid a three-game sweep by the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 9-2 win on Sunday afternoon. Eric Haase also homered and scored twice for Milwaukee, which ended a three-game skid. Brewers starter Dallas Keuchel threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings in

Police hunt abductors of two Kaduna journalists, wives

The Punch 

The Kaduna State Police Command has said it is in the hunt for the bandits who abducted two journalists: The Nation’s Abdulgafar Alabelewe and his Blueprint Newspaper’s counterpart, AbdulRaheem Aodu, their wives as well as children on Saturday night. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Mansir Hassan, said the anti-kidnapping squad of the command had since

Читать дальше...

NASCAR's Chicago race weekend is all wet again — but let's not give up on it yet

Chicago Sun-Times 

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose.

Sometimes it rains.

That’s a baseball-inspired way of saying that — for the second summer in a row — NASCAR’s signature downtown Chicago race was all wet.

Look, many of us around these parts are still learning the ins and outs of communicating in stock-car terms. One slippery lap at a time, we’ll get there.

Oh, and sometimes you wake up naked on a bathroom floor. That’s what driver Alex Bowman predicted for himself Sunday night after... Читать дальше...