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Flanders Leader Faces Heat Over Police Brutality Case
The minister-president of the Belgian region of Flanders, Jan Jambon of the Flemish nationalists, is facing increasing political pressure because of a police brutality case in 2018, when he was responsible for the Belgian police as interior minister. On Tuesday, Jambon will have to appear before Belgium’s parliament to discuss the handling of the death. …
Gaza Closes Roads To Reinforce Lockdown
Today marks the fourth day since Gaza was placed in lockdown with authorities blocking roads to ensure adherence to the new policies and stop the spread of coronavirus. The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior and National Security, Iyad Al-Bazam, said in a press statement yesterday: “The decision to impose a lockdown is compulsory and …
Beirut Receives 125 Tonnes Of Glass From Egypt For Reconstruction
A shipment of 125 tonnes of glass sent by the Federation of Egyptian Industries arrived in Beirut port on Friday to help residents of the Lebanese capital repair damage from the August 4 blast. “We will be following in the next few days with other ships carrying aluminium, adhesive materials, marble, cement, iron and so …
Georgian Capital Introduces Smart Traffic Lights
Smart traffic lights will reduce air pollution and improve traffic incidence response time in the capital Tbilisi city, Tbilisi Deputy Mayor, Maia Bitadze said, Trend reports via Georgian media. She made the remarks during the presentation of the Tbilisi Bus Transit Corridor project. Smart traffic lights will be installed in various districts of Tbilisi in the coming …
Bahrain Fines Iranian Banks Over Money Laundering
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday three Future Bank officials to five years in prison each and imposed up to $1 million fines in a series of money-laundering cases committed by the Central Bank of Iran and other banks. The court sentenced the Central Bank of Iran and the other banks implicated in the …
COVID-19: Lebanon Eases Restrictions Despite Spike In Cases
Despite the ongoing spike in the number of COVID-19 cases and a cabinet decision to re-extend public mobilization until the end of this year, Lebanon eased some preventive measures imposed last week on the tourism and social sectors and which were supposed to be implemented until September 7. On Aug. 21, the country began a …
New Zealand’s Stock Exchange Resumes Trade After Cyber Attacks
New Zealand’s stock exchange resumed trading on Friday, after facing disruptions for four consecutive days in the wake of cyberattacks this week, while the government said national security systems had been activated to support the bourse. There is no clarity on who was behind these two “offshore” attacks, but the failure to stop them has …
Macron To Meet Iconic Singer Fairuz In Push For Lebanon Reform
French President Emmanuel Macron will next week meet iconic singer Fairuz and members of Lebanon’s political leadership as he returns to the country in search of serious reform in the wake of the devastating Beirut port blast, the Elysee said Friday. Macron will be in Lebanon on Monday and Tuesday for his second visit in …
Russia Claims To Have An Effective Vaccine To Fight COVID-19
Russia has an effective drug to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, after manufacturing its vaccine, named ‘Sputnik V,’ Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Friday, after the third stage of its clinic trials was commented. We now have an effective vaccine to fight Covid-19, said Murashko, who announced the opening of an Internet page so that …
COVID-19 Less Severe In Children, Teenagers
The team, including researchers from the Universities of Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Imperial College London, recruited 651 children and young people aged 19 years or less who had been admitted to hospital with COVID-19. The findings, which are published on Friday in the ‘British Medical Journal’, also identify new symptoms of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children …
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