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The explosion has left much of East Beirut uninhabitable and 300,000 people are said by the governor to have fled the city. International rescue crews have begun flying in to help with the search for survivors. Martin Chulov writes: “Ground zero of the explosion that destroyed much of the Lebanese capital was an enormous arc of warehouses, restaurants, homes and shops that, until Tuesday evening, were the still-functioning heart of an already dying city … Grappling with the cause of such a catastrophic event looms as yet another test for a government that has failed to convince many Lebanese that it is up to implementing a stated goal of introducing accountability. ‘If any country wants to help us, please help institutions you can trust,’ said Fady Haddad, a doctor. ‘Not through the government.’” Here is how anyone wishing to donate can help. … [Read more...] about Thursday briefing: Leaders knew stockpile could ‘blow up all of Beirut’

A 15-year-old boy is fighting for his life in hospital after he reportedly ran into oncoming traffic and was hit by 'several cars' on the M5 - leaving police to investigate why he was on the busy motorway. … [Read more...] about Boy, 15, runs into oncoming M5 traffic and is hit by ‘several cars’ leaving him fighting for life – as police probe why teenage was on busy motorway

Alongside this, she shared a photo of a paragraph, in which a character is explaining how they dyed a dress. It goes on to list the ingredients for the dye, which include bizarre items such as an "Octorok eyeball", "red lizalfos" and "four Hylian shrooms". … [Read more...] about Readers are ’embarrassed’ for author who made epic mistake in ‘serious’ history book

Gordon Brown didn’t go to Rochdale to argue about migrants, but a chance encounter in the street with Gillian Duffy turned his campaign upside down. Tony Blair visited a Birmingham hospital to highlight Labour spending on the NHS, but was stopped in his tracks by Sharon Storer, angry about the cancer treatment her partner was getting. Theresa May held a snap election over Brexit, only to find voters had other ideas; the postmortem Downing Street conducted after the polls closed found that Brexit actually started sliding down the nation’s list of priorities the minute the election was called. With both main parties promising to take Britain out of the EU, people moved on to pondering what else they wanted from their next government. … [Read more...] about The Tories are learning that Boris Johnson is electoral Marmite