Gunmen Kill Over 160 in Western Nigeria, US-Iran Nuclear Talks Scheduled
More than 160 people were killed in attacks on two villages in western Nigeria on Tuesday, marking the country's deadliest armed assaults this year, according to The Guardian. The attacks occurred in the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara state. A local politician stated that armed men rounded up residents, bound their hands, and shot them. The Nigerian military had announced last month that it had launched an offensive against terrorist elements in Kwara state, The Guardian reported.
In other news, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that nuclear talks between Iran and the United States are scheduled to take place in Oman on Friday at 10 a.m. local time (06:00 GMT), Al Jazeera reported. The talks will be held in Muscat.
Meanwhile, in the United States, Ryan Routh, 59, was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to kill Donald Trump two months before the 2024 US presidential election, according to Al Jazeera. Routh was convicted of hiding in the bushes of a Florida golf course where Trump was golfing with a semi-automatic rifle for nearly 10 hours before being discovered by Secret Service agents.
Separately, The Guardian reported on the death of Nigerian singer Ifunanya Nwangene, 26, after a snakebite in her Abuja flat. Nwangene, a former contestant on The Voice Nigeria, died in the hospital while awaiting treatment. In her last message to friends, Nwangene wrote: "Please come." Her death highlights the crisis of preventable fatalities and raises questions about the availability of effective antivenoms in Nigeria.
Also, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch, the world is in a "democratic recession" with almost three-quarters of the global population now living under autocratic rulers, levels not seen since the 1980s. The report cited abuses led by figures like former President Trump as contributing to the erosion of the global rules-based order.
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