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Lebanese authorities have said at least 78 people have been killed and some 4,000 wounded in a massive explosion at the port in the capital, Beirut. The explosion on Tuesday sent shockwaves across the city, causing widespread damage even on the outskirts of the capital. The cause of the explosion …

Iran on today executed a man convicted of killing a member of the Revolutionary Guards during deadly protests in 2017-18, the judiciary’s news website reported. “Mostafa Salehi, who had murdered martyr Guard Sajad Shahsanayi with a bullet during the riots of (December 2017-January 2018), was executed this morning upon the …

Ford announced Tuesday that Jim Hackett would resign as chief executive and be replaced by longtime auto executive Jim Farley as the car giant pushes further into digital and electric investment. Hackett, 65, will hand over the job to Farley, 58, on October 1, but stay on as a special …

A United Nations plane careened off the runway while touching down in the northern Malian city of Gao on Monday, the international organisation said, injuring 11 people. In a statement, the UN said that four of its officials and seven crew members were on board the plane which took off …

China accused the United States on Tuesday of “outright bullying” over popular video app TikTok after President Donald Trump ramped up pressure for its US operations to be sold to an American company. “This goes against the principles of the market economy and the (World Trade Organisation’s) principles of openness, …

At least two people died and one was wounded on Monday in a suspected suicide bombing outside a restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. “The blast occurred at the entrance of the restaurant where a security guard stopped the suicide bomber before he had detonated himself,” said …

A Tanzanian miner who previously made the news after discovering two large Tanzanite stones has sold a third one for the equivalent of 2 million US dollars. Saniniu Laizer’s latest find weighed over 6 kilogrammes. Tanzanite, the blue and violet variety of the mineral zoisite, has only ever been found …

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, right, looks to the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, as they don’t shake hands to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, at the Government House, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 23, 2020. Le Drian is in Lebanon for two days visit to meet …

U.S. President Donald Trump has flayed an appellate court ruling that overturned the death sentence given to the 2013 Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In a tweet on Sunday, Trump said that hardly had anyone deserved the death penalty than Tsarnaev. He said the government must push for the death …

The premier of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate has pledged support to one of the regions affected by the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany. “Whatever happens (at the military base) in Spangdahlem in the end – and we hope it will be very little – the state will, of …