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Hezbollah has stores of weapons across Europe including the explosive chemical that blew up Beirut, the US government claimed last night. Hezbollah operatives have moved ammonium nitrate through Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland since 2012, the State Department said as it ramped up the pressure on Europe to ban the Iran-backed group. Counter-terrorism … Read more
Beirut faced fresh misery today as a third fire broke out in the space of a week in a city still reeling from the catastrophic port explosion which killed nearly 200 people last month. Black clouds of smoke were pouring from the futuristic Zaha Hadid-designed shopping centre today on the main road that passes by … Read more
When one of the most powerful explosions on record tore through our eighth-floor apartment in central Beirut last month, it felt like the end of the world. In that millisecond, hundreds of thousands of people didn’t know if they would live or die. My mother and I were catapulted into the living room from our … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Huge fire breaks out in the rubble of Beirut’s port just weeks after an explosion decimated the area By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline Published: 11:46 BST, 10 September 2020 | Updated: 11:54 BST, 10 September 2020 Share or comment on this article:
Rescue workers may have found another ‘heartbeat’ under the rubble left when an explosion rocked the Port of Beirut last month – raising fresh hopes a buried survivor might still be alive after the blast. Search operations began on Thursday afternoon after a sniffer dog belonging to a Chilean search and rescue team detected something … Read more
Rescuers are continuing to search through rubble for a potential survivor of the Beirut blast last month – but a pulsing signal thought to be a human heart beat has now dropped to seven beats per minute. It comes as the Lebanese military said it discovered more than four tonnes of ammonium nitrate near Beirut’s … Read more
Beirut blast rescuers ‘detect a heartbeat’ under rubble sparking hopes of finding a survivor a month after the explosion Sniffer dog belonging to the Chilean rescue team first detected something A pulsing signal was detected on Thursday from under the rubble of a building The team used audio detection equipment and detected what could be … Read more
This is the mysterious Russian businessman who owned the ‘floating bomb’ ship that ripped through Beirut, killing more than 180 people and leaving 300,000 homeless. MailOnline tracked down reclusive shipping tycoon Igor Grechushkin to Cyprus, where he lives with his glamorous wife Irina and their three sons. Mr Grechushkin owned the Moldovan-registered cargo ship, the … Read more
Heidi Klum joins Shakira and Becky G along with other stars to raise money for the people of Beirut, Lebanon after this month’s deadly explosion By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 01:25 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 01:25 BST, 29 August 2020 After tragedy struck earlier this month, she’s standing with others to help … Read more
The Port of Beirut has re-opened for aid shipments over three weeks after a haul of abandoned ammonium nitrate in storage blew up a warehouse causing a cataclysmic explosion that killed 171 people. In aerial photographs released today, aid ships can be seen moored off Beirut’s flattened port. The blast, which took place on August … Read more