BEIRUT (Reuters) – Some Lebanese called for an ongoing uprising on Sunday to assassinate their leaders amid public outrage over this week’s devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country’s top Christian Maronite church said the cabinet should resign to take. A man walks past a truck that caught fire during …
Read More »Deaths by accident of Indian passenger plane increase to 18
KOZHIKODE, India (Reuters) – The death toll from an Indian passenger plane crash has risen to 18, while 16 people have been seriously injured, a senior government official said Saturday. The Air India Express plane, which repatriated Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overturned the runway of …
Read More »UK PM orders PR campaign for schools to reopen in September: Sunday Times
PHOTO PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks to locals at a heritage center in Beeston near Nottingham, England, 28 July 2020. Rui Vieira / Pool via REUTERS / File Photo (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a public relations campaign to reopen schools on time in …
Read More »Belarus holds elections as street protests rattle strong president
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus has begun voting in a presidential election on Sunday against Alexander Lukashenko, a former teacher who emerged from obscurity to face the biggest challenge in years against the man who was once “the last dictator of Europe “was named by Washington. A woman wearing a protective …
Read More »COVID-affected Anchorage wins court ruling in dinner dispute
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – As COVID-19 cases spike and hospital bed space disappears in Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage officials on Friday won a major ruling in favor of a ban on indoor dining after a standoff over it problem moved to court. Customers packed Kriner’s Diner, a dinner in Midtown …
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