Decades of state negligence were blamed for the blast, which was caused by the ignition of a stockpile of ammonium nitrate that had been stored at Beirut port for many years. Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab as well as three ex-ministers werechargedwith criminal neglect. The explosion happ...
After an explosion devastated Beirut, Lebanon in early August, alocal restaurant with ties to the country donateda full day’s worth of revenue to assist the Lebanese Red Cross. Xtreme Donair owners Fatima Sleiman and her husband Marwan donated 100 per cent of the restaurant’s proceeds from A...
In April 2010, the world watched as a flood of oil gushed nonstop, day and night, from an underwater rupture in what was the Deepwater Horizon. The enormous offshore oil rig was located in the Gulf of Mexico when a catastrophic failure caused a massive explosion and a raging, inextingui...