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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 ...
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.
In April 2020, global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders released the 2020 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, which showed Hong Kong dropping seven places from 73rd in 2019 to 80th because of what the organization said was the city's its treatment of journalists during the demonstrations.
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.
Every passing year brings sweeping changes to major corporations and companies when it comes to policy, projects and leadership. From the completely wild and wacky stories and anecdotes that ...
The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 16 November 2019. The first human case in the United States was on 21 January 2020. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
The Boeing 737, first launched in 1967, is the world’s most successful aircraft. More than 11,000 have been delivered. But the Max 8 version was involved in two shocking and needless tragedies.
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. 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.