
Lebanon Govt resigns over blast, corruption outrage
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.
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.
World leaders have told Lebanon that financial aid to rebuild Beirut will only come when changes demanded by mourning protesters are implemented.
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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.
UPDATED | An Australian has died and the Australian embassy in Beirut has been “significantly impacted” after a huge explosion in port warehouses in the Lebanese capital killed at least 100 people, injured thousands more and destroyed or damaged an undetermined number of buildings.