One person dead in 12th Street crash
A sedan crashed into a utility pole in the area of 12th Street and Belford Avenue on Friday night killing one person and injuring another.
Police responded to the crash shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday and found one person ejected from the car who was taken to the hospital, according to a news release from the Grand Junction Police Department. The extent of that personâs injuries were not reported.
Another person was found dead inside the vehicle and required extrication by the Grand Junction Fire Department. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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Iranian Embassy tweet fuels rumors after Hezbollah accused of ‘power grab’
Updated 27 June 2021
June 27, 2021 01:59
BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities have rejected suggestions that the country is planning to import oil from Iran amid a worsening energy and currency crisis.
Lebanon’s energy ministry on Saturday said that it had received no requests for a “permit, either from an official or private party, to import oil from Iran.”
The official Lebanese response followed a tweet by the Iranian Embassy in Beirut saying that “the arrival of Iranian oil tankers does not need the attention of the US ambassador.”
The embassy warned the US envoy not to intervene “in the brotherly relations between the Iranian and Lebanese peoples.”
DUBAI: Calm prevailed in Lebanon after a night of violence that left scores injured as hundreds of protestors took to the streets across the small Mediterranean country to decry deteriorating living conditions.
Over the weekend, Lebanon’s currency hit record lows, with market dealers saying that the pound was trading at just shy of 18,000 to the dollar. This represents a depreciation of almost 92 percent since the economic and financial crisis erupted in October 2019.
Despite still being pegged to the dollar and the official rate being set at 1,507.5 pounds per greenback, the highly coveted hard currency is in short supply, giving way to the rise of a black market.