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Explosion rocks Beirut

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A massive explosion rocked Beirut yesterday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. Up to press time more than 70 people were confirmed dead and more than 3,000 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said.Hours later, ambulances still carried away the wounded as army helicopters helped battle fires raging at the port.
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Official: US will extend support for Venezuela's Guaidó

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The State Department's top official on Venezuela said yesterday that the Trump Administration will continue recognising lawmaker Juan Guaidó as the nation's interim president even if President Nicolás Maduro's Government ousts the Opposition from control of congress — its last major stronghold.
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US nears 5 million virus cases

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
BOSTON, United States (AP) — Fourth of July gatherings, graduation parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars — these are reasons the United States has racked up more than 155,000 novel coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts five million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
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COVID-19 measures could disrupt rare polio-like disease

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
NEW YORK, United States (AP) — Health experts once thought 2020 might be the worst year yet for a rare paralysing disease that has been hitting American children for the past decade.But they now say the novel coronavirus pandemic could disrupt the pattern for the mysterious illnesses, which spike every other year, starting in late summer.
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Court outlines ruling in 'dreadlocks' student case

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
The “no braids, no beads, no locks” policy of Kensington Primary School did not violate the constitutional right of the seven-year-old daughter of Sherine and Dale Virgo, a full court panel of Supreme Court judges stated in a written judgement released yesterday.At the same time, the judges said attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, who represented the family, showed a clear misunderstanding of the law in his submissions on the issue of freedom of religion.
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MPs not very visible, but...

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
Slightly more than two in five voters say they have met their political representatives in the last month, data gathered in March and July this year by veteran pollster Bill Johnson have shown.
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Trouble pick

Jamaica Observer - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:39
UNITED States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has cited national security concerns as the reason he has objected to the use of Chinese firm Genlot Game Technology as the back-end provider for new local lottery company Mahoe Gaming.
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