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The disaster, caused by explosive chemicals left untended for years at Beiruts port, has stoked anger at Lebanons corrupt officials, who are also blamed for driving the country of 5 million into near bankruptcy.

September 16 is celebrated as International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer or World Ozone Day. Ozone is the essential gaseous layer around our planet which maintains the balance in nature.

Air quality in five major cities in Oregon was the worst on record as the state continues to be blanketed by thick smoke from wildfires ravaging nearly 5 million acres in the U.S. West, environmental officials in the heavily forested state said.

Israeli aircraft attacked targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, witnesses said, and sirens warning of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory sounded in southern Israel.

The backup safety driver behind the wheel of a selfdriving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry.

A former lawmaker from Britain's governing Conservative Party was sentenced to two years in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two women.

When one of Saudi Arabia's leading clerics called this month for Muslims to avoid "passionate emotions and fiery enthusiasm" towards Jews, it was a marked change in tone for someone who has shed tears preaching about Palestine in the past.

The complaint also alleged 'jarring medical neglect' during the Covid-19 pandemic, including a refusal to test detainees with symptoms and fabricating medical records.

Australia on Tuesday recorded its first day without a COVID19 death in two months, as states began to lift restrictions amid growing confidence that a second wave of infections has been contained.

South Korea will secure early supply of the novel coronavirus vaccines for 30 million people, or 60% of its population, Prime Minister Chung Syekyun told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

The European Union on Monday ramped up pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step back from breaking the Brexit divorce treaty, delaying a key decision on London's euro clearing just as he faces a rebellion in the British parliament.

An aid worker from Turkey's Red Crescent was killed and another was wounded after masked assailants attacked the group's vehicle near the northern Syrian town of alBab, the aid agency said in a statement on Monday.

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At least 100,000 Belarusian protesters took to the streets of Minsk on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations yet against President Alexander Lukashenko after he claimed a landslide victory in an election his opponents say was rigged.

A trial of BritishIranian aid worker Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe scheduled for Sunday in Iran has been postponed, a British lawmaker said on Sunday, citing a conversation with ZaghariRatcliffe's husband.