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2023-08-02 07:45:20

Ring 0 near Waterloo, towards Brussels, will experience two weekends of total closure. This closure is the most impactful point of the two-month construction site planned by SOFICO.

The first two weekends of August are concerned: from Friday August 4 at 10 p.m. to Monday August 7 at 4 a.m., between the Genappe and Groenendael interchanges. And from Friday August 11 at 10 p.m. to Monday August 14 at 4 a.m. between the Lillois/Braine-l’Alleud and Waterloo interchanges (Drève Richelle).

This work, spanning a total of two months, aims to provide better road safety. In addition to the resurfacing, access number 25 Butte du Lion to the ring will be refurbished and a third will be fitted out shortly following Mont-Saint-Jean to ensure safety during exchanges between the different axes.

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2023-08-02 07:54:07

A state of “relative calm and caution” has prevailed in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, since Wednesday morning, coinciding with the entry into force of a truce that ended regarding 4 days of clashes.

This comes despite the sound of intermittent gunfire this morning in some parts of the camp, and at a low rate, according to what the Al-Araby correspondent in Beirut reported.

The “Palestinian Joint Action Committee” announced the formation of a field committee to stabilize the cease-fire, assigning a committee to investigate the assassination of Major General Abu Ashraf Al-Armoushi and lift the cover for the perpetrators of the operation.

Since Saturday evening, the camp has witnessed the fiercest clashes in years inside the largest and most densely populated Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, between members of the Fatah movement and others belonging to extremist groups.

The confrontations resulted in the killing of 11 people, including a leader in the Fatah movement and four of his comrades who were killed in an ambush on Sunday. In addition, 40 people were injured, according to a toll announced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees “UNRWA” on Monday.

Will the truce hold this time?

On Tuesday evening, clashes renewed in the camp, following the end of a meeting between Palestinian and Lebanese officials at Dar al-Fatwa in Sidon, headed by the Grand Mufti of Lebanon, Salim Soussan.

According to Al-Araby’s correspondent in Beirut, the truce did not last for more than three hours, especially since the clashes were renewed at more than one point inside the Ain Al-Hilweh camp before midnight yesterday.

Our correspondent indicates that the clashes continued, albeit at an intermittent pace and less intense than before, whether by firing shells or sporadic bullets.

She pointed out that the truce provided an opportunity for the civilians present and trapped inside the neighborhoods that witnessed the most intense fire, to get out of the camp.

The process of displacement from Ain al-Hilweh camp continues

According to our correspondent, the displacement process from Ain al-Hilweh camp is continuing, despite the agreement that was announced, as a result of a meeting that took place between the Palestinian factions at the Palestinian embassy in Beirut.

Al-Araby’s correspondent reports on press leaks that the agreement appears to be unilateral, given that Islamist and extremist groups were not present at the negotiating table.

According to local newspapers, there are Lebanese parties and personalities seeking with these parties to abide by the ceasefire, but there is no firm information in this context so far.

Our correspondent concludes that the cease-fire is a formality, and it is a political decision, but its translation on the ground is still difficult, for many reasons and considerations.

The battles broke out in Ain al-Hilweh camp, following an assassination attempt once morest the “Islamic” leader, Muhammad Abu Qatada, in the al-Safsaf neighborhood, which led to the death of the young man, Abd Farhood, while he was passing through the neighborhood, and the injury of others, including children.

The battles escalated, following the assassination of gunmen, the National Security Commander in the city of Sidon, Brigadier General Abu Ashraf Al-Armoushi and his companions, on Sunday followingnoon, leaving great destruction within the camp’s neighborhoods, especially the emergency and reconstruction neighborhoods, which witnessed fierce battles, in addition to the Hittin and Al-Ras Al-Ahmar neighborhoods, as the battles extended to Jabal al-Halib area, causing material damage and fires to the homes and properties of Palestinian refugees.

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2023-05-17 07:00:00

The San Antonio Spurs have received first access rights in the upcoming NBA draft and can choose the French super talent Victor Wembanyama with the first pick. This resulted in the so-called “Draft Lottery”. The annual talent selection takes place on June 22nd in New York. Wembanyama is considered the most coveted first pick since LeBron James in 2003.

19-year-old prodigy Wembanyama would follow in the footsteps of French basketball legend Tony Parker, who won four championships with San Antonio between 2003 and 2014. The Texans ended the last main round at the bottom of the Western Conference.

The Charlotte Hornets got the second pick, followed by the Portland Trail Blazers in third place.

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2023-08-02 07:38:32

In Kamchatka, in the Metallist children’s camp, a physical education teacher tied up a child and beat him. This is reported LIFE.

The boy called his parents and said that the counselors and the physical education teacher tied him up and beat him on the head. One of the camp’s inmates filmed the incident and managed to send it to the mother of the victim before he was forced to delete the recording. Footage of a man grabbing a tied child by the hair and asking, “Mom won’t help, huh?” hit the internet.

“It was preliminarily established that last night (August 1 – ed.) before lights out, regarding six children were having fun and playing in the boys’ lounge. In the process, a 15-year-old teenager was tied with a rope by a 27-year-old physical training instructor, who today explained to a representative of the supervisory authority that he did it for the sake of a joke, ”the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Fizruk has already been fired due to violation of labor discipline.

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