BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Five years after losing her daughter in a devastating chemical explosion at Beirut's port, Nelly El Helou said Pope Leo's silent prayer at the site on Tuesday was enough to ...

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Families still grieve in a Lebanon engulfed in crises—and direct their rage toward the country’s entrenched ruling class.

Beirut's investigating judge in the port explosion case, Tarek Bitar, has traveled to Bulgaria to question the owner of the Rhosus, the vessel that transported the ammonium nitrate shipment that ...

SOFIA (Reuters) -Police in Bulgaria have arrested the Russian owner of a ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August 2020, killing more than 200 people, Bulgarian ...

"If we don't get a government in place quickly and they begin to provide some sort of a road map for getting out of this abyss, the only way is down." ...

Hedwig Waltmans-Molier, 55, was injured by the explosion as she stood next to her husband, ambassador Jan Waltmans, in the living room of their house in Beirut, the ministry said. Tuesday's blast ...

Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon's economic and political crisis during his first foreign trip as pope next month ...

AMMAN, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost six weeks after the Beirut port blast nearly blinded her in one eye, Kawthar Halabi has been unable to return to work as she is still having ...

In a report released Tuesday, Human Rights Watch concluded there was strong evidence suggesting officials knew of danger at the Beirut port.

BEIRUT, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Syrian refugees, Moayad Obeid and his family had it hard even before the massive explosion that tore through Beirut last August, killing his 26-year-old ...

Sunna, which experts say appears to be an ISIS splinter group, claimed responsibility for the explosion, which happened as ...