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In this computer screenshot, Macron speaks on a popular social media app on Aug 3, 2021, in a new push to encourage vaccinations against Covid-19, combat ‘false information’ and reach out to younger people. Filming himself from his summer residency at Fort de Bregancon on the French Riviera and wearing a casual T-shirt, Macron, 43, offered to answer people’s questions in a video posted on Instagram and Tiktok. AP
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has taken to popular social media apps in a new push to encourage vaccinations against Covid-19, combat “false information” and reach out to younger people.
Filming himself from his summer residency at Fort de Bregancon on the French Riviera wearing a casual T-shirt, Macron, 43, offered to answer people’s questions in a video posted on Instagram and Tiktok.
Little did Paul and Tracy Naggear know that their beautiful apartment overlooking the port of Beirut would bear witness to the death of their three-year-old daughter Alexandra, or Lexou , as they like to call her.
The blast on August 4, 2020, killed more than 200 people, wounded 6,500 others and caused billions of dollars in damage.
Now, a year after the massive explosion, the couple has become the most prominent face of the victims families bravely turning their grief into political action.
To them, the fight against the ruling class, whom they accuse of incompetence in dealing with the crisis, has just begun. We can t live in a country where these criminals are still in power, it was part of our thinking, we need truth, we need justice, we need accountability.but we also need to kick them out, Paul Naggear told Euronews. He recently led a landslide victory for the opposition in the syndicate of engineers elections last week.
Pope, on anniversary of Beirut blast, promises Lebanon visit
Pope Francis, speaking at his first general audience since he underwent intestinal surgery a month ago and on the first anniversary of a massive blast in Beirut, said he had a great desire to visit Lebanon. The 84-year-old Francis, who looked fit and improvised parts of his address, also wished success for French President Emmanuel Macron s efforts to raise more than $350 million in aid for Lebanon at a donors conference and send yet another warning to its squabbling political class.
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BEIRUT, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Lebanon s leading Christian cleric said there could be no immunity from prosecution over the catastrophic Beirut port blast and that officials were evading investigation, as many Lebanese marked the first anniversary by demanding justice.
As Lebanon suffers a crippling economic collapse, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai also criticised the ruling class for failing to deal with the crisis - criticism echoed by Western powers at a Paris donors conference. read more