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Beirut port blast death toll rises to 190
Aug 30, 2020
BEIRUT: The death toll from this month’s Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon’s caretaker government said in a report dated Sunday. Lebanese authorities are probing what caused highly explosive material stored unsafely for years to detonate in a mushroom cloud, wrecking swat...
178 killed in Beirut explosion, 30 still missing: UN
Aug 14, 2020
BEIRUT: The death toll from last week’s massive explosion in Lebanon’s capital has risen to nearly 180, with an estimated 6,000 people injured and at least 30 missing, the United Nations said Friday. The explosion has affected operations at six hospitals, up from an initial three, and damaged more than 20 clinics in the parts of Beirut ...
Lebanese government resigns after Beirut blast, public anger
Aug 11, 2020
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s prime minister stepped down from his job Monday in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut that has triggered public outrage, saying he has come to the conclusion that corruption in the country is “bigger than the state.†The move risks opening the way to dragged-out negotiations over a new Cabinet amid...
Blast destroyed landmark 19th-century palace in Beirut
Aug 10, 2020
BEIRUT: The 160-year-old palace withstood two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the French mandate and Lebanese independence. After the country’s 1975-1990 civil war, it took 20 years of careful restoration for the family to bring the palace back to its former glory. “In a split second, everything was destroyed again,” s...
Lebanese protesters storm ministry buildings as anger over Beirut blast grows
Aug 9, 2020
BEIRUT: Lebanese protesters stormed government ministries in Beirut and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks on Saturday as shots rang out in increasingly angry demonstrations over this week’s devastating explosion. The protesters said their politicians should resign and be punished for negligence they say led to Tuesday...
Lebanon’s Kataeb Party says its three MPs resigning from parliament in wake of Beirut blast
Aug 8, 2020
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Kataeb Party, a Christian group which opposes the government backed by the Iran-aligned Hezbollah, announced on Saturday the resignation of its three lawmakers from parliament. The announcement by party leader Samy Gemayel brings to five the number of MPs planning to step down in the wake of the catastrophic explosion at th...
Arab League says ready to mobilise Arab efforts to help Lebanon; Turkey ready to rebuild port
Aug 8, 2020
BEIRUT: Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday he would seek to mobilise Arab efforts to provide support to Lebanon after this week’s catastrophic explosion in Beirut destroyed parts of the capital. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, he also said the Cairo-based league of Arab states was ...
UN agencies scramble to help Beirut warehouse blast victims
Aug 8, 2020
GENEVA: The deadly warehouse blast in Beirut this week devastated Lebanon’s already faltering healthcare system and UN agencies are scrambling to support hundreds of thousands of people, officials said on Friday. The United Nations announced an additional $6 million in funding for its response – taken from its Central Emergency Respons...
Officials long warned of explosive chemicals at Beirut port
Aug 8, 2020
BEIRUT: At least 10 times over the past six years, authorities from Lebanon’s customs, military, security agencies and judiciary raised alarm that a massive stockpile of explosive chemicals was being kept with almost no safeguard at the port in the heart of Beirut, newly surfaced documents show. Yet in a circle of negligence, nothing was don...
Rescuers in Lebanon recover more bodies days after blast
Aug 7, 2020
BEIRUT: Rescue teams were still searching the rubble of Beirut’s port for bodies on Friday, nearly three days after a massive explosion sent a wave of destruction through Lebanon’s capital, killing nearly 150 people and wounding thousands. At least four more bodies have been recovered in the last 24 hours, and authorities say the death ...
