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Lebanon’s Leaders Warned in July About Explosives at Port
Hamodia 11 Aug 2020
Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded, according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources ... Reuters could not independently confirm his description of the letter....
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Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his running mate
Vox 11 Aug 2020
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has officially chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Harris, who ran for the presidency herself, is a historic choice. She’s the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman to be a major-party nominee for the vice presidency ... And she and Biden are close ideologically ... ......
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If Israel Did Not Cause Beirut's Explosion, They Sure Had A Plan To Exploit It
WorldNews.com 12 Aug 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. On hearing reports of the deadly explosions that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020, Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun immediately announced it may have been a bomb or rocket ... Along with calling the country an “enemy of the state,” Israel had just clashed with Hezbollah soldiers ... Israel and the U.S ... 208. ....
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UN council at odds over peacekeeping operation in Lebanon
Wtop 12 Aug 2020
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council remains at odds over the way the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon operates on the ground, with the United States backing Israel’s demands for major changes. At a closed council meeting Tuesday on the mission known as UNIFIL, whose mandate is up for renewal at the end of the month, U.S ... 31....
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Russia's unproven Covid-19 vaccine will be available to other countries by November, funder says. But safety concerns remain
CNN 12 Aug 2020
(CNN)Russia's coronavirus vaccine will be gradually rolled out to high-risk people before a mass vaccination of Russians begins in October, the head of the group funding the research said on Wednesday ... Speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper and Dr ... Putin says Russia has approved 'world first' Covid-19 vaccine. But questions over its safety remain ... ....
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Australia suffers deadliest day of coronavirus pandemic, cases rise
The Himalayan 12 Aug 2020
SYDNEY. Australia recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday and the biggest daily rise in infections in three days, denting hopes that a second wave gripping the state of Victoria may be stabilising ... Queensland state reported no new cases on Wednesday ... NSW reported 18 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours ... ....
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What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
Yahoo Daily News 12 Aug 2020
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now.. Hunting the source of NZ outbreak ... Investigations are zeroing in on the possibility the virus was imported by freight. Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said surface testing was underway at an Auckland cool store where a man from the infected family worked ... ....
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Belarus president cuts off internet amid widespread protests
The Guardian 11 Aug 2020
Belarusians seeking to protest against his government have been mostly cut off from the outside world ... .......
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Abe gets pasting for similar speeches during A-bomb events
Asahi News 12 Aug 2020
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came in for sharp criticism for delivering two strikingly similar speeches during annual memorial ceremonies on Aug. 6 and 9 to mark the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Asked about the resemblance in content, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference Aug ... .” ... ....
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WHO wants to review Russian COVID-19 vaccine safety data
The Times of India 12 Aug 2020
The World Health Organization said any WHO stamp of approval on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate would require a rigorous safety data review, after Russia announced Tuesday it had approved a vaccine. President Vladimir Putin said Russia had become the first country to approve a vaccine offering "sustainable immunity" against the new coronavirus ... ....
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Mexico: Ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto accused of corruption and bribery
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Gray reef sharks form long-lasting social groups likely for hunting, study shows
CNN 12 Aug 2020
(CNN)We can't quite say sharks can be friends, but new evidence is showing us that sharks form social bonds with others and can work together — to a degree. Gray reef sharks regularly meet up together in the same groups, according to a new study published on Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society ... Read More ... ....
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Kamala Harris: How she could help - or hurt - Joe Biden
BBC News 12 Aug 2020
To put it bluntly, today's Democratic Party doesn't look like Joe Biden. It's young and it's ethnically diverse. It was increasingly obvious that the presumptive nominee needed to find someone younger and, well, less white to have a ticket that reflects the people who will vote for it ... Steadiness ... 'Harris is a cop' ... There's a flip side to that, however....
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Explosions hit U.S. coalition supply convoys in Iraq - sources and military say
Canada Dot Com 11 Aug 2020
BAGHDAD — At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad ... Several thousand U.S ... targets such as Washington’s embassy in Baghdad ... MULTIPLE ATTACKS....
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Climate crisis: Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
Around 127,000 years ago, during the last interglacial period, temperatures in the Arctic rose to around 2 - 6C above what they are today, eventually melting all the sea ice at the planet’s North Pole....
