A machete attack on a motorbike rider ended with four arrests after a gang of tricycle operators pulled off a roadside ambush.
The Fomena robbery breakdown
Adom Peter, Abdul Zakari, Andy Benjamin, and a juvenile got nabbed.
Fomena township cops grabbed all four that same day.
Around ten tricycle riders had barricaded the road beforehand.
His Haojin motorbike, a machete, and a tricycle were recovered.
What happened to the victim
The okada rider caught a machete slash to his left toe.
He was heading back from Old Ayaase after a passenger drop-off.
Attackers swarmed him and jacked his bike on the spot.
Ashanti South Regional Police response
Officers under the Ashanti South Regional Police Command jumped on it fast.
Residents got the...
Airspace shutdowns across the Middle East stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers and grounded over 1,000 flights on Saturday alone.
The scale of cancellations is staggering
Around 966 inbound Middle Eastern flights got axed on Saturday out of 4,218 scheduled.
Outbound cancellations pushed the total past 1,800 for the day.
FlightAware reported over 18,000 global delays and 2,350 cancellations by Saturday night.
Sunday already had 716 cancellations out of 4,329 scheduled flights.
Major hub airports went dark
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha all halted operations simultaneously.
Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Etihad handle roughly 90,000 daily passengers combined.
Dubai's international airport is the world's busiest for international...
Iran's retaliatory strikes dragged the entire Gulf region into a war that had been confined to just two countries only months earlier.
Dubai took direct hits on landmarks
An Iranian missile struck the Fairmont hotel on Palm Jumeirah, injuring four people.
Intercepted drone debris caused a fire at the iconic Burj Al Arab.
Dubai's international airport sustained damage, and athe irspace got shut down.
Residents described citywide missile interceptions and widespread panic.
Bahrain and Kuwait got pulled in fast
An Iranian drone slammed into a Bahraini high-rise, engulfing it in flames.
Bahrain's national security agency was also hit by a missile strike.
Footage appeared to show a missile hitting the massive U.S. naval base in Bahrain...
An overnight ayatollah title and a lifetime of paranoia shaped 37 years of autocratic rule that ended Saturday with a U.S.-Israeli strike.
Khamenei's accidental rise to power
Ali Khamenei lacked the senior religious credentials his role demanded.
Hashemi Rafsanjani engineered the succession, expecting a puppet leader.
Khamenei openly admitted to being a minor seminarian at his inauguration.
That insecurity fueled decades of hypervigilant, brutal governance.
Resistance was the entire ideology
Khamenei treated hostility toward America as a regime requirement.
Reformist President Mohammad Khatami confirmed that enmity was baked into the system.
Official slogans prioritized defiance over national development.
Every policy decision is...
Three key claims from Trump's eight-minute war justification video either lacked evidence or were flat-out exaggerated.
The U.S.S. Cole blame game falls apart
Trump pinned the 2000 U.S.S. Cole attack on Iran without solid proof.
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility, and the F.B.I. agreed it was their operation.
Courts did find Iran facilitated the bombing through material support.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen, still awaits trial at Guantanamo Bay.
Operation Midnight Hammer got oversold
Trump claimed the June strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear program entirely.
C.I.A. Director John Ratcliffe only described the damage as severe.
The IAEA's Rafael Grossi confirmed severe but not total destruction.
Trump's administration quietly...
Three decades of iron-fisted rule ended Saturday when U.S. and Israeli strikes killed 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
Khamenei's grip on power for 35+ years
Khamenei became the supreme leader in 1989 after a last-minute constitutional tweak.
His religious credentials fell short, but a claimed deathbed wish from Khomeini sealed it.
The Revolutionary Guards served as his loyalty engine and parallel military force.
By the end, many Iranians viewed him as a corrupt dictator.
Dissent got crushed every single time
The 2009 Green Revolution was smashed after he endorsed a rigged election.
Mahsa Amini's 2022 death in custody sparked nationwide women-led protests.
January 2026 saw security forces open fire, killing thousands of...
Trump's call for Iranians to overthrow their own government landed with zero infrastructure to actually deliver the message.
Trump's surrender demand was pretty vague
Trump told Iranian soldiers to lay down their weapons without specifying to whom.
His regime-change pitch targeted 90 million people with no clear plan.
Philip Gordon flagged the absence of ground troops to accept any surrender.
Gordon warned that regime change without boots creates dangerous power vacuums.
U.S. broadcasting got gutted at the worst time
Voice of America had nearly all 1,400 staffers put on paid leave.
Trump tried to shut down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty entirely.
Ilan Berman called the gutted media apparatus totally unsuited for this moment...
A precision strike on a Tehran leadership compound wiped out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and gutted Iran's top military brass on Saturday morning.
How the C.I.A. tracked Khamenei
The C.I.A. had been monitoring Khamenei's movements for months.
Intelligence from last year's 12-day war sharpened their tracking ability.
A Saturday-morning gathering of top officials sealed the timing.
High-fidelity location data got passed directly to Israel.
The strike itself went down fast
Israeli fighter jets launched around 6 a.m. from their bases.
Long-range missiles hit the Tehran compound roughly two hours later.
Khamenei and senior officials occupied separate buildings at the site.
Israel pulled off what they called tactical surprise despite war prep...
A military strike on Iran just detonated right in the middle of midterm season, and every politician is scrambling to pick a lane.
Texas Senate primary heats up fast
Jasmine Crockett blasted the strikes, insisting only Congress can greenlight war.
Her rival, James Talarico, kept it short with an anti-forever-war stance.
John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and Wesley Hunt all praised Trump's move.
Republican nominees tripped over each other to cheer the operation.
Democrats split hard on the strikes
Greg Landsman called it overdue after Iran's crackdown on protesters.
Henry Cuellar backed the action, calling Iran's threat longstanding.
Tom Suozzi flat-out agreed with the president's stated objectives.
Swing-district Dems quietly broke ranks...
