In this April 10, 2014 photo, luxury high-rise buildings line the seafront, in Beirut Lebanon. One by one, the old traditional houses of Beirut are vanishing as luxury towers sprout up on every corner ...

BEIRUT — A massive explosion Tuesday at the port in the Lebanese capital of Beirut left at least 135 people dead and thousands of other people injured. Update 8:05 a.m. EDT Aug. 6: Officials in ...

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On the afternoon of August 4, 2020, a deadly blast in the port of Beirut plunged the city into catastrophe and tragedy. The sudden explosion of 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate killed 218 people and ...

Before it became the poster child for urban disaster areas in the mid-1970s, Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle East. With its French Mandate architecture, its world-class cuisine, its ...

BEIRUT — Amid the largest anti-government protests Beirut has ever seen, something unusual has been unfolding in the city’s downtown. The center of Lebanon’s largest city sorely lacks public spaces — ...

Last week, Amanda Vance, curator of the Texas City Museum, noticed an uptick in online chatter about the 1947 Texas City Disaster. That’s interesting, she observed. Usually, talk of the disaster tends ...

In Beirut, city residents continue to search for survivors after a devastating explosion Tuesday. Many residents believe government dysfunction contributed to the disaster. There is this aerial ...