The Pigeon Express
Forest fires in Syria this week have killed at least two people and burned swaths of land, state media reported. Syrian state television on Saturday said hundreds of hectares had burned in the countryside of Syria’s coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces, and in the central Homs province. The health ministry said two people died in […]
A diesel tank exploded inside a building in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Friday night, killing four people and injuring several others, the Lebanese Red Cross has said. The explosion injured more than 30 people. Images showed flames in a street and sounds of people screaming in panic. Lebanese Red Cross head Georges Kettaneh said the […]
Lebanon has requested to arrest the foreign owner and captain of the ship that brought the material which blew up Beirut port causing devastation. The international police organisation Interpol was asked to detain two men without publicly identifying them. At least 190 people were killed when improperly stored ammonium nitrate cargo exploded on 4 August. […]
Rescue teams in Beirut were hunting through the rubble on Friday after signs of life were detected 30 days after a massive explosion destroyed much of the city’s downtown coastal area. A pulse signal is still being detected in the ruins in the Mar Mikhael area of the Lebanese capital. Rescuers traced what they believed […]
A special United Nations backed court on Tuesday convicted a Hezbollah member of conspiracy to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanon’s rival political forces. The tribunal found insufficient evidence against three other men charged as accomplices in the bombing and […]
Lebanon’s parliament has approved a state of emergency that grants sweeping powers to the army, citing the exceptional circumstances in the country following a massive explosion in Beirut last week. The cabinet had declared a two-week state of emergency on August 5, the day after the Beirut blast that left at least 200 dead and […]
A week after the Beirut port warehouse explosion, partial operations to secure goods for local markets have resumed. According to Lebanon’s caretaker economy minister, the port is now operating to unload vessels for merchants. “There are 12 cranes out of 16 operating at Beirut port,” Raoul Nehme said in a Twitter post on Wednesday. “The […]
A 160 year-old palace that witnessed two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the French mandate and Lebanese independence was destroyed in Lebanon after last week’s port warehouse explosion. After the 1975-1990 civil war, it took 20 years of careful restoration for the family to bring the palace back to its former glory. […]
Lebanon’s government has resigned amid immense public anger and pressure after the massive blast that struck Beirut port on Tuesday last week. The announcement was made in a national TV address by Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday evening. Many people have accused the country’s leaders of culpability through their alleged negligence and corruption. The […]
Thousands of protesters gathered in central Beirut seeking justice over Tuesday’s catastrophic explosion as riot police fire tear gas at those trying to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building. A group of at least 100 demonstrators took over the offices of the ministry of economy in downtown Beirut, throwing down a rain […]
NASA’s Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team with the Earth Observatory of Singapore, used satellite-derived synthetic aperture radar data to map the likely extent of damage of the Lebanon explosion. Synthetic aperture radar data from space shows ground surface changes from before and after a major event like an earthquake. In this case, it […]
The massive explosion at the warehouse in Beirut port was captured from space. Satellite images show the scale of the damage caused by Tuesday’s explosions in the Lebanese capital, with buildings miles from the port lying in ruin. Before and after images from the #explosion that happened in #Beirut, #Lebanon on August 4, 2020. Before […]