The explosion was like 15 years of war in 15 seconds, says Lebanon's team at the United Nations, comparing its impact to the devastation from the country's civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990. Now, amid financial meltdown and political turmoil, Lebanon has to undertake a single recovery effort of unprecedented scale. The level of destruction is hard to believe and it is everywhere. At the port, the grain silo that stored much of the country's wheat supplies is a tomb-like wreck rising from vaporised remains of the docks. Where people worked unloading ships there is now a flooded crater more than 40m (130ft) deep. Among the dead there were at least 43 Syrian workers, according to embassy officials. The homes and savings of many refugee families who lived in nearby industrial neighbourhoods have been destroyed. At least 100 people were killed and nearly 4,000 injured in a massive explosion of Beirut. The explosion, according to the Lebanon government...
A huge military operation to recover a single Israeli body exposes a grim moral paradox: Precise forensics for the occupier, and mass graves and lost identity for the occupied and bombarded. To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as “explosive robots”. They turned a neighbourhood into a “kill zone”, dug up approximately 200 Palestinian graves, and left four civilians dead in their wake.
The South Asian island nation is experiencing an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed the government into a deep crisis. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has turned into deadly violence , which has killed eight people and wounded more than 200 so far. The country’s powerful Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned and his younger brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is seeking a way out of the chaos. Anti-government protesters, angry over power blackouts, shortages of basic goods and rising prices, are demanding that the president also steps down , but the retired military officer has invoked emergency powers in an attempt to maintain control. The violence and political chaos gripping the island nation of 22 million comes 13 years after a brutal civil war ended in a bloody denouement in which tens of thousands of people were killed. India, Sri Lanka’s northern neighbour, has extended billions of dollars in loans to help...
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