BEIRUT (AP) – Chemical experts and firefighters are working to secure at least 20 potentially hazardous chemical containers at the explosion-ravaged port of Beirut, after finding one that was leaking, according to a member of a French cleaning team. Some of the containers were punctured when last week’s deadly explosion …
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Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and prime minister last month that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the port of Beirut could destroy the capital if it exploded, news reports said on Tuesday. Two weeks later, industrial chemicals went up in a massive explosion that destroyed most …
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MOSCOW / DUBAI / LONDON (Reuters) – In the long-running story of a highly explosive cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate on the waterfront of Beirut, one thing is clear – no one has ever come forward publicly to demand it. FILE PHOTO: A man is seen at the scene …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Lebanese Prime Minister announced on Monday his resignation from the government, saying that an enormous explosion that destroyed Beirut and caused public disgrace was the result of endemic corruption. The August 4 detonation at a port of what authorities said was more than 2,000 tons of …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Lebanese Prime Minister announced on Monday his resignation from the government, saying that an enormous explosion that destroyed Beirut and caused public disgrace was the result of endemic corruption. The August 4 detonation at a port of what authorities said was more than 2,000 tons of …
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