Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Seven Years Before Beirut Explosion, Lebanese Military Failed to Flag Deadly Cargo

The MV Rhosus was allowed to sail into Beirut’s port carrying 2,750 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate, even after an inspection by the Lebanese navy, documents show. Lebanon's Armed ...
NBC 6 South Florida

Lebanon's Justice Minister Resigns in Wake of Explosion

Lebanon’s justice minister has resigned in protest, the third Cabinet member to do so following last week’s devastating explosion in Beirut, the state news agency reported Monday. Marie-Claude Najm’s ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Lebanon explosion: DePaul graduate, Chicago man relieved family in Beirut mostly untouched by blast

CHICAGO (WLS) -- After video of a monstrous explosion in Beirut began spreading across the globe, one Chicago resident worried about his family. "I was just trying to keep calling everyone and keep ...
WPRI 12

Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he ...
WPLG

Pope wraps up Lebanon visit with silent prayer at site of 2020 port explosion

APTOPIX Lebanon Mideast Pope Pope Leo XIV arrives for a meeting with young people in the Square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerke, Lebanon ...