Beirut port explosion

The lead judge investigating last year’s catastrophic Beirut port blast issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil after he failed to show up for questioning, a judicial source and local media said.…
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Middle East podcast network Rising Giants launched its new show “Beirut Blast” on Aug. 4. The docuseries discusses the shift in the lives of people since the catastrophic blast last year. The effects of the explosion are still evident…
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A nurse hailed as a national hero for rescuing three premature babies from a hospital wrecked by the explosion at Beirut’s port a year ago was reunited with them on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the blast. Pamela Zeinoun was…
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The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, affirmed the parliament's readiness to lift the immunities of all, without exception, including the judiciary, in the case of the Beirut port explosion. Berri added, in statements…
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An MTV Lebanon video commemorating the victims of the Beirut port blast has been branded as insensitive by social media users. Titled “A Letter to the Lebanese Judiciary,” the video was shared on MTV online platforms alongside the…
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It has been almost one year since two explosions rocked the port of Beirut, killing more than 200, injuring over 6,000 and leaving hundreds of thousands without a home. The incident, which occurred on Aug. 4, 2020, caused significant damage…
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French President Emmanuel Macron will host a new international conference on Lebanon next month on the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion, after premier-designate Saad Hariri gave up trying to form a government, the foreign…
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The London-based company used to ship the ammonium nitrate that caused last August’s devastating explosion in Beirut has been linked to three individuals known to have ties to Syrian President Bashar Assad. An investigation…
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An FBI probe into the Aug. 4 explosion at the Beirut port found it was caused by 500 tons of ammonium nitrate, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday. Diab, who quit following the blast that killed more than 200…
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Christmas carols can be heard in the Beirut neighborhoods of Mar Mikhael and Gemmayzeh, stricken by the explosion of the city’s port almost five months ago, as restaurant and coffee shop owners and civil society organizations…
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