The large explosion on the port of Beirut occurred because of the detonation of two,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which was seized in 2014 from the ship Rhosus, the Lebanese TV channel LBCI stories following a gathering of the Supreme Council for the Protection of Lebanon.In line with the port ...

A sea of individuals has stuffed a park for a rally in help of Svetlana Tikhanovskya, opposition candidate within the Belarussian election set for subsequent week, in what's reported to be the largest anti-government protest in a decade. ...

President Donald Trump has known as on the Republican-held Senate to kill a invoice that may overturn his controversial journey ban. The Democrats, he mentioned, wish to flip the US into “Venezuela on steroids.” ...

A tactical unit of federal brokers has been positioned on standby in Seattle to help police ought to protests there spiral into unrest or rioting, the New York Instances reported, a transfer that comes amid heated objections from native officers. ...

Because the violent standoff between BLM and Antifa protesters and rioters on one facet and law enforcement officials on the opposite continues in Portland, dozens of mothers have been deployed in a bid to de-escalate tensions. ...

Russia has a deal to provide the British vaccine in opposition to Covid-19 and is keen to work with any occasion in energy within the nation, Andrey Kelin, Russian Ambassador to the UK, informed the BBC, rebuffing contemporary accusations by London.  ...

It might win President Erdogan a number of Islamist mates, however turning Istanbul’s former Orthodox Christian cathedral, Hagia Sophia, right into a mosque reveals complete disregard for a fragile non secular stability and a key cultural vacation spot. ...

After displaying the primary indicators of progress in April, Chinese language exports fell once more final month to $ 206.eight billion, contracting greater than three % in contrast with the identical interval a yr earlier. ...

Violent anarchists and America haters have upended the peaceable protests to wreak havoc on our cities from coast to coast and desecrate the reminiscence of George Floyd. They name themselves Antifa, quick for “anti-fascists,” however nothing may very well be farther from the reality. They're misusing Floyd’s tragic demise to additional their ...

Coronavirus has conditioned us to social distancing. However we mustn’t let it have an effect on our bed room behaviour in the identical radical approach AIDS did within the 1980s, and make us afraid of intercourse. ...