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Businessmen with ties to Assad linked to Beirut port blast cargo

Revelations about London company reinforce suspicions that Beirut, and not Mozambique, was intended destination of ammonium nitrate

Published: 14 Jan 2021
My life is on hold, frozen at the moment my son died in the Beirut blast

Sarah Copland

Published: 7 Jan 2021

Published: 7 Jan 2021
Beirut's wounds on show in display of art damaged by port blast

Published: 6 Jan 2021

Lebanon's caretaker PM and ex-ministers charged over Beirut blast

Four officials accused of negligence in connection with explosion at port, which killed more than 200 people

Published: 10 Dec 2020

'There is no hope': the slow disintegration of Lebanon

After civil war, decades of corruption and then the blast that ripped through Beirut this summer, things could hardly get any worse. But they have

Published: 11 Oct 2020

Club culture Beirut's destroyed clubbing district: 'I don't know how we will recover'

Lebanon’s club scene was perhaps the most vibrant in the Middle East, but the explosion that rocked its capital last month has silenced it. We spoke to promoters and DJs picking up the pieces

Published: 15 Sep 2020
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Large fire breaks out at Beirut port weeks after fatal blast – video

A store of oil and tyres at Beirut port burst into flames on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of injuries

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Published: 10 Sep 2020
The forgotten victims of the Beirut explosion: domestic workers

Nesrine Malik

Dumped on the streets after Covid-19 hit, hundreds of nannies are now starving amid the ruins of the blast, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Published: 6 Sep 2020

Published: 6 Sep 2020
Beirut rescuers give up after sensors gave false hopes of more survivors

Signs of life detected in remains of building by port in Lebanon’s capital were of fellow rescuers

Published: 5 Sep 2020

Diplomat Mustapha Adib wins support to form government in Lebanon

Adib, Lebanon’s ambassador to Germany, says priority is to implement reforms and regain trust

Published: 31 Aug 2020
Grassroots groups hold Beirut together, yet big NGOs suck up the cash

Hayat Mirshad

Local charities work constantly to support Lebanese society. It’s time they had a fair share of foreign aid

Published: 27 Aug 2020

Published: 27 Aug 2020
Beirut's devastating blast has not shaken the ruling class's grip on Lebanon

Gilbert Achcar

Many Lebanese people had hoped for a silver lining to this tragedy of an independent government and new elections, says academic Gilbert Achcar

Published: 25 Aug 2020

Published: 25 Aug 2020
'Our stitches ran out': Beirut's struggle to deal with injuries from port blast

The Lebanese capital is a city of many old scars striving to cope with new wounds

Published: 24 Aug 2020

- 'Each day we learn about a new loss': artists unite in blast-hit Beirut
  
  Published: 21 Aug 2020
- Seascape: the state of our oceans ‘Cancer of the industry’: Beirut's blast proves lethal risk of abandoning ships
  
  Published: 20 Aug 2020

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