Beirut is now in a two week state of emergency after an explosion ripped through the city killing at least 137 people and injuring thousands. Tens of thousands have been left homeless after their properties were destroyed. One resident, Maya Ammar, took a camera around her neighbourhood after ...
People in Beirut help clear the streets after deadly explosion People in Beirut have expressed anger at the government over what they say was negligence that led to Tuesday's huge explosion. President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a ...
Dyfed–Powys Police Constable Peter Lloyd and police dog Max. Max found a missing woman and her child during his first shift as a police dog./ A police dog working his first shift in the United Kingdom successfully located a missing woman and her child over the weekend, according to police in ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Federal prosecutors have charged 11 alleged members and associates of the MS-13 street gang with sex trafficking and other charges after they say a 13-year-old runaway was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat and forced into prostitution in northern Virginia. Charges were ...
19 infections on the rise, hospitals were already struggling to cope. Now, they are faced with treating thousands of injured people from Tuesday's explosion which shook Beirut. The country is also going through the worst economic crisis since the civil war, and tensions were already high with ...
The FBI have conducted a raid on the Los Angeles-area home of YouTube star Jake Paul. A spokeswoman for the FBI said an armed swat team carried out the raid, which took place while Paul was not at home. The official would not say the reason, only that the search was related to an investigation. ...
A majority of Seattle’s City Council on Wednesday voted down a proposal to slash the police department’s remaining 2020 budget by 50 percent. But the council did pass a slew of other defunding efforts, including ones that would cut 100 officers from the agency this year through layoffs and ...
A warehouse area at a port in Beirut exploded Tuesday, killing more than 100 people and causing extensive damage in the Lebanese capital./ The explosion is under investigation, a focus of which is thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive material, improperly stored in the area./ ...
Satellite imagery obtained by NBC News’ Social Newsgathering team from Planet Labs, Inc. and Maxar Technologies shows the damage sustained by yesterday’s explosions at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The imagery shows nearby buildings that sustained significant damage or were destroyed by the ...
Dr Marie Eid has told the BBC the hospital where she works in Beirut has been badly damaged, and that "it was a truly very, very traumatic experience." Hospital staff were forced to transform the car park into an emergency ward, as more and more injured people arrived for urgent treatment. ...
