In 2023, then-chief prosecutor Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release of 17 detainees, including port and customs officials, who ...

On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion ripped through the port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing 218 people, injuring thousands, ...

The Lebanese judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two people on Friday in connection with the deadly ...

United in grief and anger, families of the victims and several thousand Lebanese marked one year since the horrific explosion at Beirut's ... 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a port ...

just one area will experience those happenings after an explosion, but this time it was all of Beirut, even areas outside of Beirut. Ammonium nitrate has a number of different uses, but the two ...

Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion ... tons of ammonium nitrate, used ...

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But it’s not just the MV Ruby’s load of 20,000 pounds of ammonium ... similar to the Beirut disaster, when a 2,750-pound load ...

BEIRUT — The Lebanese judge leading an investigation into the huge 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned ... On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port ...

On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse ... who had been held in pre-trial detention since the explosion. Bitar and legal experts condemned ...