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WEB'They don't deserve this nightmare': Cancelled flights leave Lebanese stuck at Beirut airport. Long queues and inflated prices for the few tickets available as smoke billows from air strikes nearby
US envoy in Beirut faces major hurdles in efforts to prevent war
WEBAug 14, 2024 — US envoy Amos Hochstein is visiting Lebanon to renew a diplomatic push aimed at preventing a wider regional war and a large-scale retaliation against Israel by Iran and Hezbollah.
At least nine dead in Beirut restaurant gas leak explosion
WEBApr 30, 2024 — At least nine people died and two were injured due to an explosion caused by a gas leak in a Beirut restaurant on Tuesday, Lebanese authorities said. The explosion happened at the Pizza Secrets restaurant in central Beirut, with the victims dying of suffocation from fumes, the city's fire department said.
‘Exactly like the Mafia’: tangled inner workings of Beirut port could ...
WEBSep 6, 2020 — Some parties are more involved than others. A source close to the investigation into the explosion said that the Shiite Muslim party Amal has the most influence in Beirut's port, where 70 per cent of all 3,000 employees are Shiite. Amal is an ally of Hezbollah, Lebanon's most powerful Shiite group.
New $122 million Beirut airport terminal planned amid economic …
WEBMar 20, 2023 — Terminal 2 at Rafik Hariri airport will cater for charter and low-cost flights, caretaker minister says. The National. March 20, 2023. Lebanon's only international airport will build a $122 million new terminal, officials said …
Lebanese protesters set fires and break windows at Beirut banks
WEBFebruary 16, 2023. Frustrated Lebanese protesters caused damage at banks in Beirut on Thursday as Lebanon’s commercial banking institutions marked the 10th day of their strike. Protesters broke several windows and doors of at least five banks in the Badaro area of the city and set fire to tires outside.
Missing eyes, gruesome wounds: Lebanese hospitals inundated …
WEBSep 18, 2024 — Missing eyes, gruesome wounds: Lebanese hospitals inundated with injured after pager attack. Woman tells of harrowing scenes on wards after unprecedented mystery explosions. Nada Maucourant Atallah. Beirut. September 17, 2024.
US Beirut embassy shooting highlights regional security issues for ...
WEBJun 5, 2024 — The US embassy in Lebanon was closed on Wednesday after a possible ISIS shooting outside its heavily fortified entrance, an attack that highlighted America's troubled diplomatic presence in Beirut and underscored security risks to US personnel in the region.
‘Allo, Beirut?’ exhibition reconnects to forgotten past of Lebanon’s ...
WEBNov 25, 2022 — Visitors to Allo, Beirut? are encouraged to imagine how they would redesign the capital in the period immediately after the Lebanese Civil War
Irish UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon after vehicles attacked
WEBDec 15, 2022 — About 13,000 UN peacekeepers are stationed in Lebanon, where the interim force has managed a ceasefire with Israel. More than 300 soldiers serving with Unifil have lost their lives since 1978. Forty-eight of those were Irish.