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What is Macron looking for in the ruins of Beirut?

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What is Macron looking for in the ruins of Beirut?

PEJOURNAL - The principle that emerged during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Beirut yesterday after the deadly explosion of the city's pier: "The return of the perpetrator to the crime scene is the accepted principle in all criminal cases." It seems that Macron still thinks that Lebanon is a French colony. After months of street protests by the French people, he did not give a convincing response to the unjust and corrupt policies of his government to the people of his country. Now he has come to Beirut to provide international aid to Lebanon in the face…

Massive Beirut blast kills more than 70, injures thousands: AP

PEJOURNAL - A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 70 people were killed and 3,000 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. It was not clear what caused the blast, which struck with the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, according to Germany’s geosciences center GFZ, and was heard and felt as far away as Cyprus more than 200 kilometers (180 miles) across the Mediterranean. Lebanon’s interior minister said it appeared that a large cache of…

Iran’s National Security Council’s Spokesman: The cause for incident on Thursday morning in Natanz nuclear site has been determined

Keyvan Khosravi, spokesman for the Secretariat of Iran’s the Supreme National Security Council, said: "Technical and security investigations, carried out by the relevant agencies, have accurately determined the cause of the accident at the Shahid Ahmadi Roshan Nuclear Complex in Natanz, which took place on the morning of Thursday, July 12." Referring to the presence and activity of experts from different departments responsible for evaluating and investigating the incident in Natanz nuclear site, started from the first hours of the incident, he noted: "Different hypotheses about the cause of this incident with careful analysis of the works, manner and extent…