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Rescue workers are racing against time to save scores of passengers after a tragic boat accident in Sokoto State, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, confirmed yesterday. According to NEMA, the incident occurred when a boat conveying over 50 passengers to Goronyo Market capsized. The Director-General of NEMA, Mrs. Zubaida Umar, said the agency immediately activated its response team upon receiving reports of the mishap. She explained that the operation is being conducted in collaboration with local authorities, divers, and other emergency responders. “So far, about 10 persons have been rescued, while more than 40 passengers remain missing,” Umar said.…

Speaking with journalists on arrival, Mr Akpabio promised Nigerians “robust legislative engagements” when the Senate resumes. The President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has returned to Nigeria after what his office described as a short vacation in London. Mr Akpabio, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 4 a.m. on Monday, was received at the Presidential Wing by senators, aides, and supporters. His media office said his return “put an end to speculation that the Senate President was critically ill and admitted in a London hospital.” The speculation followed his absence after attending the Sixth World…

Andrew Leigh backs cancellation of Israeli MP’s visaThe assistant minister for competition, Andrew Leigh, has defended the government’s decision to deny entry to a far-right Israeli politician who described Gazan children as “enemies” and called for Israel’s total control of the West Bank.As Sarah Basford Canales reports, Simcha Rothman, a member of the Knesset for the far-right party Religious Zionism, was scheduled to appear at two public events in Sydney and Melbourne in August and two private events billed as a “solidarity tour”.Leigh did not comment on the specifics of the decision to deny him a visa but said the…

US president ramps up pressure on Ukrainian leader to accept deal with Russia ahead of talks in Washington, DC.United States President Donald Trump has increased pressure on Ukraine to accept an agreement to end Russia’s war, claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could choose to end the conflict “almost immediately”.Addressing Zelenskyy a day before his high-stakes visit to the White House on Monday, Trump warned that the return of Russian-occupied Crimea and Ukrainian membership of NATO would be off the table in any negotiated settlement.“President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or…

Early results showed centrist Rodrigo Paz take the lead, with 32.8 percent of the vote, in surprise outcome.Bolivia is heading to a presidential run-off between a centrist and right-wing candidate, confirming the end of two decades of government by the Movement for Socialism (MAS), according to the South American country’s electoral council.With more than 91 percent of the ballots counted on Sunday night, preliminary results showed centrist Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) in the lead, with 32.8 percent of the vote.Conservative former interim President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, of the Alianza Libre coalition, was in second place, with…

Nearly 40 years after their time in the NFL, the players from the 1988 New Orleans Saints grapple with the physical toll of football while honoring a bond forged through the toughest game.

It’s fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can’t derive them theoretically, we can only measure them.We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to have those specific values? Because, listen, if they were only slightly different, the universe might be…

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent, BBC NewsReutersRodrigo Paz Pereira is the frontrunner in Bolivia’s first-round presidential election which took place on Sunday.Bolivia is set to elect a non-left wing president after nearly two decades of near-continuous rule by the incumbent socialist party, according to official preliminary results.Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge Quiroga came in first and second place respectively in Sunday’s presidential elections.Neither received a high enough share of the vote to secure an outright win, so the vote will go to a run-off between these two candidates, due in October.Paz Pereira, of the Christian Democratic Party, was…

“The Pitt” star Katherine LaNasa says the most challenging word she’s had to say on the medical drama was “campylobacter.” “It’s bacteria in poop or something. I don’t know,” LaNasa told me at Sunday at the HBO Emmy Nominees celebration in Hollywood. “It’s something horrible. It’s something really gross. Sometimes they have stuff that is so gross.” (According to the Cleveland Clinic, “a Campylobacter infection (campylobacteriosis) is one of the most common causes of diarrhea. It’s a bacterial infection you can get from undercooked poultry, raw milk and untreated water.”) LaNasa earned an Emmy nomination for her work on series…

@bindisueirwin / InstagramBindi Irwin says she’s on the mend after 13 years of endometriosis painAustralian conservationist and TV personality Bindi Irwin has said she is “genuinely healing” after suffering years of pain from endometriosis and called for greater understanding of the condition.Irwin, who first revealed her decade-long struggle with the disease in 2023, said in an update, she was “slowly gaining my strength back” and “beginning to recognise myself again”.After feeling “utterly ashamed” when told her pain was “just part of being a woman”, the 27-year-old said society needs to remove the stigma around women’s health.Irwin’s story has reignited conversations…