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BEIRUT: This picture shows the silos of Beirut port, destroyed in a giant blast on Aug 4 last year, in the Lebanese capital on April 6, 2021. - AFP n

Foreign firms vie to rebuild Beirut port
Candles light-up pictures of victims of August's deadly Beirut blast during a commemoration concert in the gardens of the damaged 19th-century Sursock Palace in Achrafieh in Lebanon's capital, on September 20, 2020. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

After Lebanon blast, future lawsuits pile up against the state
TOPSHOT - An aerial view taken on August 26, 2020, shows vehicles damaged at the port of Beirut in the August 4 massive explosion that caused severe damage across swathes of the Lebanese capital, killed at least 181 people, injured more than 6,500 and left scores of people homeless. (Photo by - / AFP)

After deadly port blast, rudderless Lebanon drifts towards the rocks
TOPSHOT - Sama al-Hamad, 6-year-old Syrian girl who lost her left eye in the August 4 cataclysmic explosion, points at the blast site from the roof of her damaged house in Beirut's Mar Mikhael district on August 16, 2020. - The powerful August 4 explosion that killed 177 people and devastated swathes of the Lebanese capital also left thousands wounded, mostly from flying shards of glass. At least 400 people suffered ocular injuries, more than 50 required surgery, and at least 15 were permanently blinded in one eye, according to data compiled by major hospitals in and around Beirut. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

'Vision from hell': Losing an eye to the Beirut blast
TOPSHOT - A Lebanese man talks on the phone while seated by the rubble of a destroyed traditional building in the Gemmayzeh neighbourhood, on August 12, 2020, following last week's cataclysmic port explosion which devastated the capital Beirut. (Photo by - / AFP)

Beirut blast conspiracy tales abound
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Lebanon's leaders warned in July about explosives at port
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