Upwards of 150 people have been abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest, local residents said, pointing to dozens of armed men on motorcycles who stormed villages in Zamfara state for the punitive raid. The BBC reports the residents were kidnapped after the villages failed to pay a “tax” imposed on them by the gunmen, witnesses said.
Spain: Veteran Populist Lawmaker ‘Shot in Face’ by Motorcycle Getaway Gunman
November 9, 2023 by
Getty Images / Collage A retired Spanish politician, a former leader of the main parliamentary opposition party and founder of the second largest opposition party, was shot in the face as he walked out of church on Thursday. 78-year-old Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a retired politician, appears to have narrowly survived what may have been an assassination