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Lebanon’s prime minister has announced his government’s resignation, saying a huge explosion that devastated the capital and stirred public outrage was the result of endemic corruption.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has promised angry crowds in Lebanon’s shattered capital that aid to rebuild the city would not go to “corrupt hands” and urged the political authorities to carry out reforms.
The Beirut explosion which killed at least 135 people and levelled much of the Lebanese capital’s port is “unquestionably” one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history, according to calculations by British engineering experts.
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UPDATED: Australian 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown is eager to get home as she and the rest of her crew left Lebanon overnight after being released on bail from a Beirut prison, where they had been held for two weeks after being accused of child kidnapping.
