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BBC news with David Harpe.


The French President Emmanuel Macron has told the political leaders in Lebanon that they need to fight corruption and undertake reform in the wake of the explosion that devastated Beirut on Tuesday. Mr. Marcon was thrown as that he toured the Lenabonse capital shattered streets. Crowds chants angry denunciations of their political leaders who were main blamed for the disaster.


Workers in the Viennese City of Da Nang are turning a sports stadium into a field hospital to deal with coronavirus patients and country's new virus epicenter. Vietnam was able to successfully contain the virus for months, but Da Nang has seen a surge in confirmed cases in the last few weeks.


The main opposition candidates contending against Belarus's longstanding President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday's election has cancelled at short notice a major rally in Minsk. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's team said they were no prepared to provoke people, given that the authorities had decided to hold another event in the same park at the same time.


Mexico's food and beverage industry has condemned the decision by Mexico State to ban the sale of junk food and sugary drinks to children. The confederation said it would have a negative impact on their economy.


For the 20th week in a row, more than a million Americans have filed for  unemployment benefits as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take heavy toll on their economy. About 60 million workers are still receiveing benefits.


Three Ugandanese have sued the country's drug authority and the internation organization Marie Stopes after using what they say were defective condoms. They argued that as a result one of them contracted with HIV, another became ill with gonorrhea and a woman got pregnant.


The EU's Earth Observation Program Copernicus said Arctic's sea ice in July was at a joint lowest levels ever recorded for the month. It said it was nearly 27% down on the average extent recorded over the last four decades.


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