A massive fire has broken out at Beirut port on Thursday, a little more than a month since a huge blast devastated the port facilities and surrounding area.The Washington Post's Beirut Bureau Chief Liz Sly tweeted that the Lebanese army has told people to evacuate the vicinity around the duty-free zone, and video is circulating…
Rescue teams in Beirut are digging deeper into rubble Friday where signs of life were detected 30 days after a massive explosion destroyed much of the city's downtown coastal area.
Rescuers in Beirut frantically dug through rubble early Friday from a deadly explosion that rocked the capital a month before after a pulsing signal discovered Thursday raised hopes that someone could be alive underneath the destroyed building.A sniffer dog with a Chilean search-and-rescue team first detected something on Gemmayzeh Street -- one of the hardest…
Ambulances ferried newly injured demonstrators to hospitals even as the death toll in Tuesday’s explosion and fireball climbed to at least 158 people.An elderly man with gray hair was carried out of the crowd, an eye out and bleeding from the head. The Red Cross said 26 ambulances were responding, with at least 28 people…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…