Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba was under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election that extended his family’s 55-year reign in the oil-rich Central African nation. Gabon’s people celebrate his potential ouster because Bongo’s family has been accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by.
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13 killed in crush while waiting for food donations in Pakistan’s Karachi
At least 13 people were killed and 10 others injured Friday in a crush among people waiting for Ramadan food donations in Pakistan’s largest city Karachi13 killed in crush while waiting for food donations in Pakistan’s Karachi. The crowd crush is the latest in a string of deadly incidents at food distribution centers across Pakistan as citizens struggle with soaring inflation and rising costs of basic necessities. The victims from Friday’s crush were all women and minors, police said. Among the dead were two boys aged seven and 16, and a 9-year-old girl, according to Summaiya Syed Tariq.
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A Stolen 300-year-old painting returned to museum
A Baroque landscape paintings lost during World War II were returned to Germany on Thursday, October 20 2023. The artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer was hand over to a German museum.
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Astronomers found the forbidden planet
Astronomers have found an unusually large planet orbiting a small star, located about 280 light-years from Earth. The unexpected size of the newly discovered world, called TOI 5205b, has led researchers to call it the forbidden planet. About the size of Jupiter, it was spotted by researchers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS.
