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1,000,000 people could lose jobs this year as unemployment hits 7.5% The downturn of the British economy may not be as severe as predicted but it could take even longer to recover than previously feared. The Bank of England (BoE) estimates that the economy will shrink by about 9.5% this year due to the coronavirus […]

The Facebook logo. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Facebook and Twitter have sanctioned President Donald Trump for spreading misinformation on Covid-19 on Wednesday, including blocking his campaign from tweeting until it removed an offending post. Both social media giants acted in response to a video clip posted to both Trump’s Facebook and campaign Twitter accounts where […]

China Ambassador Qin Jian, Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi (Twitter, @MofaSomalia, Wikimedia Commons) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Somaliland’s president has reportedly rejected a conditional offer by a delegation of Chinese “wolf warrior” diplomats to cut ties with Taiwan, and added that he is taking steps to strengthen relations with the country. On Monday (Aug. 3), news […]

BEIRUT: Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials. International aid flights began to arrive as Lebanon’s leaders struggled to deal with the widespread […]

French President Emmanuel Macron was expected in Lebanon Thursday, two days after a monster blast sowed unfathomable destruction in Beirut and brought Paris’s Middle East protege to its knees. The highest-ranking foreign official to visit the country since Tuesday’s tragedy, Macron will visit the site of the blast that obliterated part of Beirut port and […]

A destroyed silo at the scene of the explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut on Aug. 4, 2020. (AFP Photo)    Amassive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. At least 135 people were killed in […]

The rules were supposed to come into force days ago (Picture: Reuters) New lockdown restrictions impacting millions of people in parts of northern England come into force at midnight tonight.  The coronavirus crackdown in areas including Manchester, parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire will see people from different households banned from meeting in a […]

Workers load a plane as Qatar begins sending field hospital and medical aid to Lebanon from the al-Udeid airbase on August 5, 2020 on the outskirts of Doha KARIM JAAFAR AFP  Qatar began flying field hospitals and medical aid to Beirut Wednesday, AFP correspondents saw, to ease pressure on Lebanon’s strained medical system after the previous […]

People evacuate wounded after of a massive explosion in Beirut. | Hassan Ammar/AP Photo President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that a bomb attack was behind the catastrophic explosion that rocked Beirut earlier in the day, seemingly contradicting Lebanese officials’ explanations that it was caused by confiscated explosives. The exact cause of the explosion was […]

An entire port engulfed in fire, ships ablaze at sea and crumbling buildings: the site of the massive blast in Beirut’s harbour area resembled a post-nuclear landscape. Soldiers cordoned off the area, littered with glass and debris from the explosion which officials said was the result of fire catching in a warehouse where hundreds of […]