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Lebanon's Supreme Defence Council said those responsible would face the “maximum punishment” possible. The ammonium nitrate had reportedly been unloaded from a ship impounded at the port in ...

A potentially explosive Russian fertiliser cargo that has been called a “floating bomb” through months of international ...

The MV Rhosus arrived at the port in 2013 carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate Lebanon's government has blamed the huge blast that devastated parts of Beirut on the detonation of 2,750 tonnes ...

While the cause of the explosion was not immediately known, local media citing the country’s authorities said that ammonium nitrate stored ... ready to assist Lebanon.” Hospitals in the ...

A massive explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at a Beirut port in 2020 quickened the Lebanese economy’s free fall. Potentially worsening Lebanon’s predicament, Lebanese militia Hezbollah and ...

The ammonium nitrate was taken off and discharged into ... Widespread protests have taken place across Lebanon in the last year because of anger at poor governance. Experts say they expect these ...

Lebanon's vocation ... On August 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in a warehouse at Beirut's port, ...

‘Crisis after crisis’: everything we know about the Lebanon chemical explosion ... that what exploded on Tuesday was “not just ammonium nitrate”, but “corruption, mismanagement ...

Lebanon’s cabinet on Wednesday agreed to ... However, he said Lebanese authorities paid little attention to the ammonium nitrate, which had been stacked in the hull in large sacks.