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Shipowner linked to Beirut port blast held in Bulgaria
AFP, Published on 16/09/2025
» SOFIA, Bulgaria - A shipowner wanted over a 2020 blast at Beirut port that killed more than 220 people has been arrested in Bulgaria, officials said on Tuesday.
Five years after Beirut port blast, Lebanese demand justice
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» BEIRUT — The loved ones of those killed in a catastrophic explosion at Beirut's port five years ago gathered to demand justice on the anniversary of the blast Monday, as Lebanon's president vowed to hold those responsible to account.
Police shut down illegal gold mine in Phichit
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/01/2025
» PHICHIT – Forestry police on Friday arrested a Vietnamese man and five Thais at an illegal gold mining site on Panompa Mountain in this northern province.
Lebanon marks 3 years since catastrophic Beirut blast
AFP, Published on 04/08/2023
» BEIRUT - 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.
New silo collapse in blast-ravaged Beirut port: AFP
AFP, Published on 23/08/2022
» BEIRUT - Eight more grain silos at Beirut port toppled Tuesday, succumbing to damage from a devastating 2020 explosion in the third such collapse in a month, AFP correspondents reported.
Beirut's blast-damaged grain silos partially collapse
AFP, Published on 01/08/2022
» BEIRUT - Parts of Beirut's grain silos collapsed on Sunday, just days before the second anniversary of a catastrophic explosion at the Lebanese capital's port that ravaged the stores and swathes of the city.
Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island.
Grief and wrath as Lebanon marks year since deadly blast
AFP, Published on 04/08/2021
» BEIRUT - Lebanon on Wednesday marks a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged Beirut, with a mix of grief over lost lives and rage at the impunity for its worst peacetime disaster at a time when its economy was already in tatters.
One year on, political interference besets Beirut blast probe
AFP, Published on 02/08/2021
» BEIRUT: In the year since a monster explosion disfigured Beirut, a local probe has yet to yield significant arrests or even identify a culprit, with politicians widely accused of stalling progress.
A year after the mushroom cloud, Lebanon still bleeds
AFP, Published on 01/08/2021
» BEIRUT - On August 4, 2020, a fire at the Beirut port ignited one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It disfigured the city, took more than 200 lives and shattered Lebanon's psyche.