Lebanon’s military gets sweeping powers after Beirut blast Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the catastrophic Aug. 4 explosion.

The blast left a scene described by one Beirut newspaper as looking like an ... "The observation of breaking of window glass at a six-mile radius will allow a TNT equivalent estimate to be made ...

The seismic explosion that tore through Beirut on Tuesday, will have devastating consequences for a country already reeling from a financial crisis. The blast, which killed more than 100 people ...

Seventeen containers of personal protective equipment to respond to the coronavirus were also destroyed in the blast. Our country is on a knife’s edge. The plume of smoke—going straight up into the ...

The centre of the blast was Beirut port where the country's only cruise ship, the Orient Queen, was docked. BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg explores how Moscow has warmed to Trump's America.