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Auld Lang Syne: Hope among the debris in Beirut

Beirut resident Hoda Melki captured a touching video of her mother playing traditional Scottish folk song Auld Lang Syne on the piano amongst the debris of her damaged apartment the day after a major blast tore through the Lebanese capital.

News Lens • 06 Aug 20

Dr Israa Seblani was standing smiling in a square close to the couple's wedding venue when the explosion happened

Wedding video captures moment of Beirut warehouse blast

A video recorded during a wedding in Beirut yesterday captures the moment of a deadly blast at a warehouse in the Lebanese city.

News Lens • 05 Aug 20

Helicopters are used to help douse the flames

Death toll from huge Beirut blast climbs to 135

Lebanese rescue workers have been searching for survivors in the wreckage of buildings following a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut yesterday, killing at least 135 people.

World • 05 Aug 20

More than 2,500 people have been injured in the blast

At least 70 killed, 2,700 injured in Beirut blast

A huge explosion in port warehouses near central Beirut has killed more than 70 people and injured more than 2,750 in the Lebanese capital.

World • 04 Aug 20

The troops are part of the UNDOF mission in the Golan Heights

Troops' return from Golan delayed amid clearance issues

One hundred and thirty members of the Defence Forces are unable to return to Ireland tomorrow as scheduled, because of a delay in approving clearance at one of their stops on the route home.

World • 03 Apr 19

Rebecca Dykes' body was found near a motorway

Arrest over murder of British embassy worker in Beirut

Lebanese police have arrested a man in connection with the killing of a British embassy worker in Beirut.

Beirut • 18 Dec 17

Rebecca Dykes' family said they have been left "devastated" following her death

British embassy worker murdered in Beirut

A British embassy worker whose body was found by the side of a motorway in Beirut was strangled, Lebanese police said.

World • 18 Dec 17

An al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for the attack

Four killed in blasts in Lebanon

Four people have been killed after two suicide bombers targeted the Iranian cultural centre in Beirut, Lebanon.

News • 19 Feb 14

Emergency personnel at the scene of Beirut bomb attack

Four killed in Beirut bomb attack

Four people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in a residential neighbourhood of southern Beirut.

News • 21 Jan 14

Hariri murder trial opens in The Hague

Four Hezbollah members are on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in a 2005 car bombing.

News • 16 Jan 14

Residents and emergency personnel gather at the site of the blast

Five dead following Beirut explosion

A car bomb has killed at least five people in Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on Shia and Sunni targets in Lebanon.

News • 02 Jan 14

Hezbollah commander was killed outside his home

Hezbollah commander killed in Beirut attack

Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah group has said one of its commanders was killed outside his Beirut home in an overnight attack it blamed on Israel.

News • 04 Dec 13

Explosions apparently targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut

23 killed in Beirut bombs targeting Iran embassy

Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut killing 23 people and damaging buildings around the embassy compound.

News • 19 Nov 13

The blast sent a column of black smoke over the city

16 killed, over 200 injured in Beirut explosion

Sixteen people have died and over 200 were injured after a powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.

News • 15 Aug 13

The blast happened in a stronghold of the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah group

Car bomb explodes at Beirut shopping centre

At least 53 people were wounded when a car bomb hit a shopping centre in Beirut's southern suburbs.

News • 09 Jul 13

Protesters face off with Lebanese security forces as they try to storm the Government Palace in Beirut

More violence erupts on streets of Beirut

Lebanese troops and gunmen have exchanged fire in Beirut's southern suburbs today.

News • 22 Oct 12

Police comb through the wreckage following yesterday's car bomb explosion in central Beirut

Lebanese PM offers resignation after bombing

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he has offered his resignation but that President Michel Suleiman has asked him to stay on for a "period of time".

News • 20 Oct 12

Tensions are high in Lebanon between factions on opposite sides of the Syrian conflict

Top security official dies in Beirut explosion

A huge car bomb explosion in Beirut today killed a top Lebanese security official and seven other people.

News • 19 Oct 12

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