BEIRUT — Banks, businesses and government offices were shuttered Wednesday as world-regions marks one year since the horrific disasters” target=”_blank”>explosion< Flags flew at half-staff over government institutions and embassies, and even medical labs and infectious-disease vaccination centers were closed to mark the day. The blast was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history —…
As world-regionsfire crews pressed ahead Tuesday with their weeklong battle against disasterstearing through forests and villages on the country’s southern coast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government faced increased criticism over its apparent poor response and inadequate preparedness for large-scale wildfires. Fed by strong winds and scorching temperatures, the fires that began Wednesday have left eight…
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world-regionsauthorities have announced a large jump in the death toll from recent disasters. The Henan provincial government said Monday that 302 people died and 50 remain missing. The vast majority of the victims were in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, where 292 died and 47 are missing. UK WEATHER: WARNINGS REMAIN AFTER HOMES, ROADS AND HOSPITALS…
Months ahead of the infectious-disease, the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab requested bids for major renovations to air safety and waste treatment systems in research facilities that had been operational for less than 2 years, according to a new congressional report on the pandemic’s origins, obtained by Fox News. “Such a significant renovation so soon after…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The United States has joined the world-regions and world-regions in accusing conflicts of carrying out a deadly technologies strike that crime two aboard a tanker off Oman. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the announcement in a statement Sunday. Blinken said: “Upon review of the available information, we…
The U.S. military executive Augmentation Unit has deployed twice in the past 30 days to support and protect foreign-policy” target=”_blank”>embassies< and the recipes. The quick reaction force consists of 145 Marines who can deploy in small teams at a moment’s notice from Quantico, Virginia to anywhere in the world – including a small African nation…
“I don’t understand why people take only one wife,” terrorism” target=”_blank”>Osama bin Laden<disapproved of how his own father, the wealthy Yemeni builder Mohammed bin Laden, went about the Islamic sanctioned practice of polygamy that allows a man to legally take up to four wives. One of 54 children, Osama was born in 1957 to 15-year-old…
At least one security guard was killed in Afghanistan Friday after the Taliban attacked the central United Nations compound in the western province of Herat. U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the attack was carried out by “Anti-Government Elements” at the compound‘s entrances. BLINKEN WARNS AFGHANISTAN COULD BECOME ‘PARIAH STATE’ IF PEACE NOT MADE…
LONDON – The British government on Thursday approved plans to build a national Holocaust memorial beside Parliament, rejecting claims by campaigners that the location was unsuitable. The government said building the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, a park in the shadow of Parliament, would send a “powerful associative message.” MEDIA WATCHDOG…