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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 ...
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 ...
COVID-19 portal. v. t. e. This article contains the number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) reported by each country and territory to the World Health Organization in March 2020 and published in the latter's daily 'situation reports'. [1] For other months see COVID-19 pandemic cases.
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.
List of armed conflicts in 2020. Locations of conflicts worldwide in 2020. Major wars, 10,000+ deaths in 2020. Wars, 1,000–9,999 deaths in 2020. Minor conflict, 100–999 deaths in 2020. Skirmishes and clashes, fewer than 100 deaths in 2020. ← 2019 2023 →. The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2020 .
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 ...
Science and technology. November 2020 lunar eclipse. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs, with the full moon dimming slightly as it passes through the Earth's penumbral shadow. It is visible from most of North America, the Pacific Ocean, parts of East Asia, and New Zealand.