Beirut

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.…

The relaunching this week of the investigation into the August 2020 Beirut port blast triggered an unprecedented impasse with the lead judicial investigator and top prosecutor slapping charges against each other.…

Issued on: 25/01/2023 - 17:14Modified: 25/01/2023 - 17:22 Lebanon's top public prosecutor on Wednesday charged the Beirut port blast investigating judge and ordered the…

Issued on: 24/01/2023 - 13:06 The judge probing the 2020 Beirut blast has charged Lebanon's top public prosecutor, the then-premier and other senior current and former…

Issued on: 23/01/2023 - 14:40 The Lebanese judge investigating the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast has resumed his work, a judicial source said, after a 13-month suspension due…

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — William Noun and Maria Fares met during a moment of grief two years ago after each of them lost a sibling in Beirut’s massive port blast. Their shared…

3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Members of 'neighborhood watch' are deployed in Ashrafieh district, Lebanon November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir 2/3 By Tom Perry, Issam Abdallah and Timour Azhari BEIRUT (Reuters) - In the darkness of…

MTN Group is selling its Afghanistan business to Beirut-based M1 New Ventures for $35 million* (R639.5 million) as Africa’s largest wireless carrier continues to reduce its presence outside the continent. The Johannesburg-based company…

Issued on: 16/09/2022 - 16:43 Lebanese depositors, including one armed with a hunting rifle, broke into at least four banks Friday to demand their trapped savings, a sign of…

Issued on: 15/09/2022 - 01:03 Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked…