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People clash with police during a protest against the political elites and the government after this week deadly explosion at Beirut port AP Photo/Felipe Dana Security forces fired tear gas and clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators Saturday in Beirut, and a group of protesters stormed the foreign ministry amid mounting fury over this week explosion that devastated much of the city and killed nearly 160 people. Dozens were still missing and nearly 6,000 people injured.Activists who called for the protest set up symbolic nooses at Beirut Martyrs ; Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for Tuesday blast.The explosion was fueled by thousands of tons of stanley shop ammonium nitrate that had been improperly stored at the city port for more than six years. Apparently set off by a fire, the blast was by far the biggest in Lebanon troubled history and caused an estimated $10 billion to 15 billion in damage, according to Beirut governor. It also damaged 6,200 buildings and left hundreds of thousands of peo stanley cupe ple homeless.A sea of people in Beirut. Huge anger, largest participation in rioting that Ive seen so far stanley cup website . pic.twitter/mJXUMgfiQX鈥?Timour Azhari @timourazhari August 8, 2020The disaster has taken popular anger to a new level in a country already reeling from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis and near bankruptcy.Story continues below this adResignation or hang, read a ban Iryy Palestinian minister accuses Israel of starving Gazans; Israel calls charge obscene
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford announce their pregnancy with their first child to media at press conference in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Greg Bowker/New Zealand Herald via AP New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday she was pregnant with her first child, prompting an outpouring of support from women rights groups and labour activists as she declared I ;ll be a prime minister and a mum.Ardern said she planned to work until the end of her pregnancy in June and then take six-weeks leave, during which time Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters would run the country.Speaking to reporters outside her Auckland home, Ardern said her partner Clarke Gayford would care for the 8220 urprise addition full-time and that the whole family would travel together when necessary.Story continues below this adI am not the first woman to work and have a baby. I know these are special circumstances but there are many women who have done it well before I have, she said.The popular 37-year-old politician pregnancy is one o stanley cup f the very few examples of an elected leader holding office while pregnant and the first in New Zealand his stanley cup tory. Pakistan Benazir Bhutto gave birth while she was prime minister in 1990.Ardern, who came to power through a coalition deal after a closely fought election last year, has experienced a meteoric rise to power as New Zeal stanley cup nz and