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8/4/2023 6:46:37 PM
Lebanon marked three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked Beirut with hundreds of protesters marching alongside victims' families Friday to demand long-awaited justice.
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8/4/2023 2:46:35 PM
Lebanon on Friday marks three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked Beirut. Yet nobody has been held to account as political and legal pressures suspend the investigation.
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4/5/2023 8:50:43 PM
A UN expert on Wednesday expressed grave concern about interference in investigations into the 2020 port explosion in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, including threats against the investigating judge.
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1/25/2023 7:13:58 PM
The judge leading the investigation into Beirut's deadly 2020 port blast refused Wednesday to step down from the probe, rejecting charges brought against him by Lebanon's top prosecutor in the politically charged case.
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1/24/2023 12:03:24 PM
The Lebanese judge probing the Beirut port blast has charged Prosecutor-General Ghassan Oueidat and three judges, a first in the country's history, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday.
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9/7/2022 3:52:17 PM
Dozens of relatives of the victims of Beirut's massive port blast protested Wednesday against the judiciary's plan to name a second investigative judge, calling the move an attempt by the country's political class to prevent justice from one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions.
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International
8/25/2022 1:49:03 PM
Eight ancient glass vessels shattered in the 2020 Beirut explosion go on display at the British Museum from Thursday, walking visitors through the painstaking international project to piece them back together.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/19/2022 11:05:42 PM
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Egypt has not stopped sending aid to Lebanon since the deadly Beirut explosion on 4 August, 2020, as he spoke in an interview with Ahram Daily Newspaper's journalist Mohamed El-Qazzaz.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/14/2022 3:45:03 PM
Egypt sent on Monday its largest medical and food aid shipment to Lebanon yet as part of its continued efforts to support the country after the devastating port explosion that sent shockwaves across the city of Beirut in August 2020.
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11/22/2021 3:11:05 PM
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Moscow sent the Lebanese government satellite images from the day of last year's deadly Beirut port blast in an effort to help with the investigation.
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10/26/2021 4:31:10 PM
For eight months, he has quietly investigated one of the world's worst non-nuclear explosions with only four assistants - and a lot of powerful detractors trying to block him.
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10/14/2021 4:24:00 PM
Gunfire killed six people and wounded 30 at a Beirut rally organised by the Shia Hezbollah and Amal movements Thursday to demand the dismissal of the lead investigator into last year's port blast.
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10/14/2021 11:05:00 AM
A Lebanese court Thursday threw out a request to remove the judge investigating last year's monster port blast as the country braced for escalating tensions over his future.
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8/2/2021 2:48:13 PM
A year after the August 4 explosion that killed more than 200 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods of the city, no official has been brought to justice
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7/30/2021 5:21:54 PM
The blast was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, killing more than 200 people, wounding thousands, and devastating swathes of Beirut
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7/29/2021 12:20:49 PM
Politicians and senior security officials have yet to be questioned in a formal investigation
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7/4/2021 5:58:45 PM
Dozens of relatives of those killed in Lebanon's port blast gathered Sunday to mark 11 months since the catastrophe and urge answers from a sluggish probe towards prosecuting those responsible.
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7/2/2021 10:00:00 PM
The blast in August, blamed on a huge quantity of chemicals left for years in poor storage conditions, deepened a political and economic crisis in the heavily indebted country
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5/31/2021 6:37:31 PM
Lebanon on Monday received a preliminary report from France regarding last year's massive port blast in Beirut that killed and wounded thousands, judicial officials said
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5/4/2021 3:27:49 PM
The catastrophic blast on Aug. 4 killed 211 people and injured more than 6,000, devastating nearby neighborhoods
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