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A protester uses a slingshot toward the Lebanese riot police, during anti-government protest following the massive explosion which devastated Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

Renewed Lebanon protests as pressure mounts on government

Apart from several MPs, Lebanon's information minister and environment minister both announced their resignations on...

10 Aug 2020 10:30 AM IST

Lebanons Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad. (AFP)

Lebanon information minister quits in first government resignation...

The head of Lebanon's Maronite church meanwhile called on the entire government to step down over the August 4 explosion

9 Aug 2020 3:47 PM IST

Rescue workers use a tube to vacuum debris from a badly damaged building in Lebanons capital Beirut, in search of possible survivors from a mega-blast at the adjacent port one month ago, after scanners detected a pulse, on September 4, 2020. - Lebanese rescuers scoured rubble for a possible survivor in Beirut after the detection of a pulse drew crowds hopeful of a miracle one month on from a devastating explosion. (AFP)

'No signs of life' in Beirut rubble after three-day search for blast...

The signs of life detected in the past two days were possibly breaths of fellow rescuers already inside the building,...

6 Sept 2020 8:54 AM IST