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

a massive explosion ripped through the port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing 218 people, injuring thousands, and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. The cause? A warehouse full of ammonium nitrate ...

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 ...

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BEIRUT — Hoda al-Halabi was struggling to ... Thousands of people were wounded and almost 200 killed when a warehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded, gutting a stretch of the city and filling ...

Some of the images suggest there was a first smaller explosion ... years the ammonium nitrate was a serious risk. It has also been reported the ship that could have brought it to Beirut was ...

Ammonium nitrate is a highly volatile industrial chemical used in fertilizer and explosives, and has been responsible for a ...

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

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 ...