Lead investigator resumes Beirut port blast probe and plans to question senior officials
In 2023, then-chief prosecutor Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release of 17 detainees, including port and customs officials, who ...
Changing political landscape in Lebanon, Syria prompts Saad Hariri's comeback
Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, ...
Navy aircraft carrier collides with merchant vessel near Suez Canal
A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier collided with a Panamanian-flagged merchant vessel near near the Suez Canal in the Mediterranean ...
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Lead investigator resumes Beirut port blast probe and plans to question senior officials
BEIRUT — The Lebanese judge leading an investigation into the huge 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two port employees on Friday, resuming his probe after years of obstruction, according to ...
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Lead investigator resumes Beirut port blast probe and plans to question senior officials
On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse, killing at least 218 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating large swaths of the capital. The ...
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Longtime AP international journalist Earleen Fisher, whose career spanned five decades, dies at 78
Years after being posted in Beirut, Fisher returned there to take stock of how it was doing. She wrote in 1993: “In the nation whose new name became a synonym for death and destruction ...