Month: May 2023

Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, home of Africa’s most populous city, has been sworn in as Nigeria’s president after a hotly contested election.Tinubu’s promises of economic growth and strengthening national security have been compared to those of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who had been criticized for largely failing to deliver on them.“There is already a very substantial loss of confidence in the government as a protector of citizens,” noted International Crisis Group adviser Nnamdi Obasi. “If the new government doesn’t act very decisively, we’re going to have more people looking for their own help and protection.” Nigeria’s Bola…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has extended his leadership in Turkey to a third decade after winning re-election in a tense second round. Erdogan received 52.2 percent of the vote in the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, beating his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who won 47.8 percent, according to preliminary results. Here are five key takeaways from Turkey’s vote results: Erdogan is a great political survivor Erdogan was already Turkey’s longest-serving leader, but his election victory extends his 20-year rule – he was prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and then president – ​​for another five years. His…

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday came up as the winner of the country’s presidential election, proving resilient against the opposition bloc as he extends his rule into a third decade. Official results were shown Erdogan won with 52.1% of the vote, while opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu came away with 47.9%. In spite of deadly earthquake already the fall of the local currency, Erdogan’s victory once again demonstrated the leader’s durability, which analysts say is rooted not only in the ways he has consolidated power over the years, but also shows the enduring loyalty of…

A search is underway Monday morning for a person who led police on a chase that ended in a rollover crash. According to Tulsa police, it started around 3:30 a.m. Monday when officers tried to pull over a driver near East 11th Street and South Yale Avenue. Police say the driver refused to stop and led officers on a chase. According to police, a passenger in the vehicle got out of the car near East 13th Street and South 73rd East Avenue. Police say the pursuit continued until the driver attempted to cross South Memorial Drive at 15th Street. Police…

AUSTINTOWN — The Salem girls track team, led by Rylee Hutton’s school-record long jump, earned runner-up finishes at the Austintown Division II regional meet on Saturday. The Quakers totaled eight state qualifiers in eight events en route to 55 1/2 points, trailing only Woodridge’s 73 1/2. Hutton jumped into the Salem record books with a second-place long jump of 17-feet-4 3/4, while Salem junior Kaylee Carlisle was third in the discus with a throw of 119-7. During her long jump final, Hutton broke Megan Lehwald’s school record of 17-4 set in 2014. “There were a lot of really talented girls…

If you watch the nightly news on the national networks, and nearly one in 10 adults still do, you’ve probably noticed what tends to be “Breaking News” lately: severe weather and mass shootings. There is now a mass shooting at least once a week in America, sometimes two. And deaths from killer tornadoes in the first three months of this year have been triple the number of fatalities in all of 2022. On any given night, we can see images of entire towns devastated by wildfires, high winds, floods, heat waves and the like. The US EPA reports that the…

A search is underway Monday morning for a person who led police on a chase that ended in a rollover crash. According to Tulsa police, it started around 3:30 a.m. Monday when officers tried to pull over a driver near East 11th Street and South Yale Avenue. Police say the driver refused to stop and led officers on a chase. According to police, a passenger in the vehicle got out of the car near East 13th Street and South 73rd East Avenue. Police say the pursuit continued until the driver attempted to cross South Memorial Drive at 15th Street. Police…

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, was confused last year after watching Vice President Kamala Harris preside over the Senate for a tie-breaking vote. Feinstein, 89, appeared unsure during a vote why Harris, who had previously severed numerous ties, was in her role as Senate president, according to a report by The New York Times. A witness included in the report said Feinstein allegedly asked her colleagues, “What is she doing here?” With the Senate deadlocked in a 50-50 majority split for the first two years of the Biden administration, Democrats needed every member of their party plus Harris’ tie-breaking…