Lebanon's Prosecutor General Ghassan Oueidat has pressed charges against 25 people, including senior port and customs officials and security officers, over the massive Beirut port blast that killed 172 people, a judicial source told Reuters on Friday. It was not immediately clear what...

Claudette Halabi cried out from beneath the rubble of her house for an hour before she died. The neighbors couldn't save her. "We kept hearing the screams. I heard her voice. But we couldn't do anything. It still hurts," said Johnny Khawand, near the remains of her Beirut building. The...

Ten days after the deadly Beirut explosion, rescue workers recovered the remains of firefighters killed while battling the initial blaze, as authorities appointed a well-respected judge to lead the investigation. Beirut, brought to its knees by the cataclysmic explosion, has seen the...

Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza rallied Friday against Israel's agreement with the United Arab Emirates. Under the agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel and the UAE will normalise diplomatic ties, brought together by a confluence of interests against Iran. A...