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Firefighters carry the coffin of their comrade Ralph Malachi, who was killed in the monster explosion at the port of Beirut and whose remains were recently found and identified, draped in the Lebanese national flag, during a funerary ceremony at the civil defence headquarters in the Karantina (La Quarantaine or Quarantina) neighbourhood of the capital just by the ravaged port. (AFP)

UN launches $565 million appeal for Beirut victims

The blast killed over 170 people, injured more than 6,000 and left thousands homeless

15 Aug 2020 9:50 AM GMT

The materials were transported by an IAF C-17 transport aircraft that landed in Beirut earlier in the day on Friday.(Photo: MEAIndia/Twitter)

India sends humanitarian aid to Lebanon

The materials were transported by an IAF C-17 transport aircraft that landed in Beirut earlier in the day on Friday

15 Aug 2020 7:41 AM GMT

Lebanese anti-government protesters attack a vehicle belonging to a member of the parliament upon his arrival to the parliamentary session at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut. (AFP)

Lebanon Parliament meets after blast, government resignation

Parliament is not convening at its usual location due to ongoing protests outside the Parliament building

13 Aug 2020 10:31 AM GMT

A man poses for a picture with a cardboard cut-out of Hassan Nasrallah (L), the head of Lebanons Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, and former Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil hung by Lebanese protesters in downtown Beirut. (AFP)

Lebanese protesters storm ministry buildings as anger grows over...

Protesters set up symbolic nooses at Beirut's Martyrs' Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they...

9 Aug 2020 4:27 AM GMT

A man walks past a destroyed car at a neighborhood near the scene of Tuesdays explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

Lebanon president rejects global investigation into Beirut port blast

"There are two possible scenarios for what happened: it was either negligence or foreign interference through a missile...

8 Aug 2020 6:26 AM GMT

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) visits the devastated site of the explosion at the port of Beirut, on August 6, 2020 two days after a massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital in a disaster that has sparked grief and fury.(AFP)

Macron says France doesn't want to run Lebanon

He said he was asked by people in the street to 'return to the mandate' when Lebanon was a French protectorate a century...

7 Aug 2020 6:10 AM GMT

Lebanese army soldiers stand guard in front of destroyed ships at the scene where an explosion hit on Tuesday the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

The ship with ammonium nitrate cargo was not meant to stop at Beirut

The chemicals came to Beirut on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captain, should never have...

7 Aug 2020 3:58 AM GMT

People inspect their car that was damaged in Tuesdays massive explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. (AP)

Lebanese government orders house arrest of several Beirut port...

Probe is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate came to be stored at the facility for 6 years and why nothing...

6 Aug 2020 3:42 AM GMT

A sunken cruise ship caused by Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, sits in the water. The Lebanese military discovered more than 4 tons of ammonium nitrate near Beiruts port on Thursday, Sept. 3, a find thats a chilling reminder of the horrific explosion a month ago that killed 191 people. (AP)

Lebanese army finds 4 tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut

It was nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut's port for six years that detonated last month, wreaking...

4 Sep 2020 5:45 AM GMT