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One message that circulated on social media yesterday by angry demonstrators said: "Prepare the gallows because our anger doesn't end in one day." … [Read more...] about Ghouls pose for sexy pics in front of Beirut blast site where 158 died just last week

The country was already in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which were on the verge of collapse. … [Read more...] about Eerie drone pics show Beirut cruise liner still on its side week after massive explosion killed 171

Certainly it is hard to see IS being able to rebuild anything like the physical, geographic space it occupied and controlled for five years across a great swathe of Syria and Iraq. But Dr Emman El-Badawy, who has spent years researching Islamist extremism and who now works for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, warns that IS is unlikely to pass up the opportunities now presented to it. … [Read more...] about Islamic State group: Europe has ticking time bomb in prison camps

But the number of actual cases is believed to be many times higher. Testing has been severely limited – just 11,000 tests have been carried out across the whole country during the entire pandemic – and the spread of the disease is believed to be far greater. … [Read more...] about Trans-Tasman travel bubble ‘on pause’ amid new Covid outbreaks across Pacific

Her pay of 35,000 naira (£70) a month, working in a lavish home 20 miles away in Banana Island, the city’s most affluent enclave, was suddenly halved in March when her employers left the country as coronavirus cases began to rise. Weeks later, with government lockdown measures taking hold, her husband, a driver for an international corporate firm, was told his pay would be cut by two-thirds because the staff he had been driving were working from home. … [Read more...] about Lagos’s poor lament Covid fallout: ‘we don’t see the virus, we see suffering’