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At Virtual Summit, World Leaders Pledge $298 Million In Aid To Lebanon - NPR

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  1. At Virtual Summit, World Leaders Pledge $298 Million In Aid To Lebanon  NPR
  2. Beirut explosion: Lebanese minister announces resignation over disaster  Guardian News
  3. Esper appears to backtrack on Beirut explosion cause after White House pushback  CNN
  4. Beirut’s Blast Is a Warning for America  The New York Times
  5. Distinguished pol of the week: Leadership in a disaster  The Washington Post
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Code compiler pioneer Frances Allen dies at 88

Engadget 

It’s a sad week for the computing industry. IBM reports (via the New York Times) that computing pioneer and company fellow Frances Allen died of Alzheimer’s on her birthday, August 4th, at the age of 88. She’s best known for making vital contribution...

17 more bodies recovered, Kerala landslide toll at 43

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (sports) 

Following intensified search operations, as many as 17 bodies of Pettimudy landslide victims were recovered on Sunday, taking the death toll to 43. "By evening, we had to stop all operations due to heavy rainfall. As of now, 27 people are still missing,” Devikulam sub-collector said. The landslide on Friday had taken away 30 houses in four tea estate layams (workers’ quarters).

BBC bosses rap Naga Munchetty for starring in corporate video for Aston Martin

TheSun.co.uk 

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has been given a warning over impartiality by bosses after moonlighting in a corporate video for James Bond car maker Aston Martin. The BBC said Munchetty risked a “conflict of interest” after she was paid to appear in a corporate PR video for crisis-hit car firm. Naga, who earns up […]

NY’s largest hospital network had to buy garden hoses to fix ventilators: book

New York Post 

At one point during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, staffers at New York’s largest hospital network were forced to shop at hardware stores for garden hoses to make the ventilators they had received from the state actually work, according to a new book. This experience and many others resulted in Northwell Health seeking to...





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