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 …
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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 …
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Iran has urged the United Nations to hold the United States responsible for the interception of an Iranian passenger plane by two U.S. fighter jets in the air over Syria last month, calling it “unfair” and an “adventurous act”. Iran’s UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said in identical letters to …
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets near the official residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a renewed show of force, as weeks of protests demanding his resignation were no sign of slowing down. Protesters were angry over the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and said Netanyahu …
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An offshore drilling rig is located in shallow waters near the Manifa offshore oil field, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Manifa, Saudi Arabia. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil giant Saudi Aramco has reported a 50% drop in net income for the first half of its fiscal year, …
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