BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be a sabotage operation by Israel, it would “pay an equal price”. The leader of the powerful Iran-backed …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Some corals have lived on the fringes of Mauritius for centuries. Now for days smothered in heavy fuel oil spilled from a wrecked Japanese tanker nearby, parts of those reefs could be in trouble. The full impact of the toxic spill is still lacking, scientists say. While …
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire in California has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes as it was largely undisturbed by densely forested mountains north of Los Angeles that finally burned 50 to 100 years ago, firefighters said Thursday. The frame of a car is burned as a fast-moving …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The explosion of the port of Beirut was preceded by a series of explosions, the last of which was a burning of fireworks that apparently set a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate, an Israeli seismological and ammunition expert said on Thursday. Boaz Hayoun, of the Tamar Group …
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(Reuters) – Fireworks and firefighters were set up by Protestants in the U.S. federal courthouse in Portland on Wednesday, police said in a tweet, declaring the assembly an uprising. Protests against anti-racism in cities, including Portland, Oregon, are sometimes erupting and arson, and federal officers sent into the Northwestern city …
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