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Disasters and accidents 2020 Beirut explosion The state -run National News Agency says that Lebanon's state prosecution has asked Interpol to detain two Russian citizens, the captain and owner of the MV Rhosus, a ship that carried thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013. (Reuters via U.S. News) Eight people are killed and ten others are injured as a series of wildfires sweeps ...
Disasters and accidents 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Delta Hurricane Delta makes landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana. During its time in Louisiana, it downgraded to a Category 2 Hurricane. (CBS News) An explosion kills at least four people in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) Eighty-eight people are injured following an apartment fire in Ulsan, South Korea. (ABC News) Health and ...
Over 14,000 (as of June 27, 2020) [6] Property damage. $1–2 billion (May 26 – June 8, 2020) [7] A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] such ...
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States since 2020 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [1] [2] [3] Following the murder of George Floyd, unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the country and the world.
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
Jamie King, Kyle Newman. Getty Images (2) Jaime King has filed an emergency request to end her child support payments to ex-husband Kyle Newman. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly ...
Insurgency in Balochistan. Islamic State–Taliban conflict. 18 January. Suicide car bombing. 4 (+1) 20. Afgooye, Somalia. 2020 Afgooye bombing. A suicide car bomber targeted a place where Turkish engineers and Somali police were having lunch in Lower Shabelle .Most of the casualties were police officers.
Business and economy Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 recession COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil The Brazilian economy officially enters a recession after the country's statistics institute reported a 9.7% decline of its gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter, which is the second consecutive quarter of a decline in its GDP. It is Brazil's largest quarterly drop since ...