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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
5/27/2023 2:49:07 PM
Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in Beirut's port — set off by tons of improperly stored chemicals — reduced many of its treasured paintings and collections to ashes.
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World
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Region
1/26/2023 3:46:19 PM
Scores of protesters Thursday scuffled with riot police in Beirut as they tried to break into the chief offices of Lebanon's judiciary, after officials moved to cripple the probe into a massive port explosion that wreaked havoc on the capital city.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
1/24/2023 1:41:06 PM
The Lebanese judge probing a devastating 2020 blast in Beirut port has resumed work, a judicial source said Monday, over a year after political pressure brought the investigation to a halt.
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World
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Region
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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Region
1/23/2023 4:30:06 PM
The judge investigating Beirut's massive 2020 port blast resumed work Monday after a nearly 13-month halt, ordering the release of some detainees and announcing plans to charge others, including two top generals, judicial officials said.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
8/23/2022 11:03:57 AM
Another significant section of the devastated Beirut Port silos collapsed on Tuesday morning in a cloud of dust. No injuries were reported _ the area had been long evacuated _ but the collapse was another painful reminder of the horrific August 2020 explosion.
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World
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Region
8/4/2022 9:38:50 AM
Lebanon marks two years Thursday since an apocalyptic blast in Beirut port killed over 200 people, destroyed a large chunk of the city and deepened a painful economic crisis.
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World
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Region
5/18/2022 9:01:09 PM
A new 10 million US dollars grant will help Lebanon mitigate the environmental and health impacts of the Beirut port explosions on the neighboring population and support Beirut's reconstruction, the United Nations said in a statement on Wednesday.
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World
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Region
12/20/2021 6:42:53 PM
The UN chief called on Monday for an impartial and transparent investigation into last year's massive Beirut port explosion to ensure justice, after paying tribute to the victims of the blast.
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World
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International
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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World
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Region
10/16/2021 8:46:21 PM
The spokesman for relatives of those killed in the Lebanese capital's port blast quit on Saturday, while denying he had been pressured to urge the lead investigator in the case to step down.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
10/14/2021 3:29:31 PM
France on Thursday expressed concern over the deadly unrest that erupted in Lebanon over the investigation into last year's Beirut port blast and urged all parties to calm the situation.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
10/14/2021 2:41:19 PM
Women and children took shelter as gunfire kills and injures dozens 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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World
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Region
10/14/2021 2:14:29 PM
With gun battles breaking out in the Lebanese capital Thursday after shots were fired at protesters, we look at how the apocalyptic blast that devastated the port of Beirut last year has rocked the country.
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World
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Region
10/14/2021 12:00:00 PM
The Lebanese Army warned on Thursday that it would open fire at anyone firing live rounds, calling on civilians to evacuate an area in a predominantly Shia suburb of Beirut as a rally to demand the dismissal of the Beirut port blast lead investigator left a number of dead and injured.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
10/12/2021 9:26:08 PM
The developments came hours after harsh criticism was leveled against Bitar by Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah called Bitar's investigation a ``big mistake'' and said it was biased. He asked authorities to remove Bitar
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