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Man commits suicide same day as sweetheart marries
A Yemeni man committed suicide by hanging himself in front of the house of a woman he loved on the same day she married someone else.
Villagers reportedly found the body of the 30-year-old man near a water tank last Friday. The man was believed to have left a number of love letters addressed to the woman he loved and had reportedly decided to end his life once he knew she was marrying somebody else.
In one of the letters he left behind, the man blamed the woman for “failing to keep her promise and ditching him for another man.”
Media reports said several letters were found in the man’s pockets, and were about “love, anger, and anguish.”
The man was believed to have been displaced from another city due to the security situation in Yemen, and came to settle at Tarim before his suicide. -arabnews.com
Lion, wolf evacuated from Ukraine in bus
A four-day mission to rescue a lion and a wolf from war-torn Ukraine had a happy ending with the two zoo animals “settling in well” in Romania, Tim Locks – a British war veteran who spearheaded the rescue operation said.
According to reports, the 45-year-old Iraq veteran, had been delivering aid in Ukraine when he heard about the plight of the animals from a conservationist at his hotel.
He embarked on a mission to save the two animals, driving from Lviv to Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where the lion and the wolf were kept in a zoo, along with two companions.
In the remarkable rescue operation, which Mr Locks documented on Facebook, the animals were transported to neighbouring Romania in the back of a minibus.
The lion, Simba, and the wolf, Akela, were driven almost non-stop until they reached the Romanian border. Then, as the final leg of their journey, the animals were taken to a zoo in the north-eastern city of Radauti in Romania on Sunday.
Mr Locks shared update on the animals last Wednesday saying: “We’ve just heard back from the zoo in Romania and it’s amazing to hear that both Simba and Akela are settling in well. Both are eating and drinking plenty and enjoying some chill time after the long journey.”
He had earlier shared photos from the rescue mission on Facebook, describing how a crane was used to lift the lion and the wolf into the minibus.
“It took three hours to load both animals into the back of a Ford transit minibus with the seats removed using a crane and a JCB,” he revealed. -ndtv.com
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NCA clamps down on 62 defaulting stations
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has directed non-
compliant FM Broadcasting Stations to immediately suspend operations on their respective frequencies for various infractions.
According to the NCA, the enforcement action has become necessary due to persistent violations of regulatory requirements, specifically Regulations 54 and 56 of the Electronic Communications Regulations, 2011 (L.I. 1991) and the Conditions of their FM Broadcasting Authorisations.
This action follows a directive issued by the Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, Sam George, mandating the NCA to enforce applicable sanctions on stations found to be in violation of the regulations in the recent audit conducted by the NCA to ensure full compliance with licensing and operational requirements in the broadcasting sector.
Following this directive, the NCA has commenced enforcement of regulatory sanctions against defaulting entities identified in the Frequency Audit Report in phases.
The categorisation of infractions under the first phase is as follows:
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Loose goat evades pursuing police in Georgia
Police in Georgia are hot on the trail of a ‘hoofed Houdini’ — an escaped goat spotted running loose in Duluth.
The Duluth Police Department said on social media that numerous calls came on Tuesday, reporting a loose goat ‘trotting’ on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard ‘like it had somewhere very important to be.’
“Officers responded and attempted to corral the hoofed Houdini as it made its way toward Albion Farm Road, where it hopped a few fences and outsmarted us by disappearing into backyards,” the post said.
Police suspect the goat might be the same animal seen running loose recently in Suwanee.
“Apparently, it had unfinished business in Duluth,” police wrote.
