Thereve been fresh explosions in the lebanese capital, beirut, and elsewhere in the country. The Health Ministry says nine people have been killed and more than Three Hundred injured. The lebanese News Agency says that todays explosions involved Walkie Talkies made by The Japanese company icom. As for Yesterdays Wave of blasts, iran has blamed israel for them. And hezbollah, has vowed to retaliate, and the Un Secretary General has warned of a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in the region. While the region waits for hezbollah and Irans Response to this extraordinary development what are the recent events that led to this . The day after hamas gunmen crossed Into israel from gaza on October 8th last Year Hezbollah fired at israeli positions to show solidarity with the palestinians. 8,000 rockets according to israeli officials, have since been launched at northern israel and israeli positions on the golan heights. Israel retaliated with repeated strikes at hezbollah positions in leb
Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
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The Controversial Police anti Robbery Group which has since been this found that a clinic dresses in the capital abuja. We understand that there are pockets of protesters still on the streets protesting and demanding that the demands be met and there is also a very very serious traffic jam on of that group its usually a very difficult situation at this point in time when people close the world earlier the capital here has and now wants to ban on street porters however that did not stop the protesters from carrying out their protest on the streets of a buddha. The fiance of murdered saudi journalist. Suing the Saudi Crown Prince in the United States the lawsuit alleges mohamed bin solomon ordered her killing of the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago it was filed by a federal court to buy had teaching asian g. s and g. S Organization democracy for the arab world now the lawsuit claims the murder was ordered to stop the Washington Post journalist from speaking out against or for demo
Driven to marine 1 and flown to the white house. He walked off by himself. At times pausing to wave. He walked up the stairs to the white house and then removed his mask. The president then recorded a video message which he tweeted out 45 minutes ago. I learned so much about coronavirus. One thing for certain. Dont let it dominate you. Im better and maybe im immune. I dont know. Dont let it dominate your life. Get out there and be careful. We have the best medicine in the world. The president thanked doctors and nurses for all their dare at walter reed. Did President Trump leave the hospital too early . What about the experimental drug hes using. There are a will the of questions. Not just from the general public but the medical community. We speak to the chair of the department of medicine. And the man responsible for Clinical Trials of one of the experimental drugs. That the president is using. Millions watched as President Trump walked out the front door. This afternoon. While many