5 killed in clashes in Beirut: Report
Contacts among Lebanese authorities are underway to reduce tensions in Khaldeh while the Lebanese army units were deployed in the area
Contacts among Lebanese authorities are underway to reduce tensions in Khaldeh while the Lebanese army units were deployed in the area
The chemical had been lying unattended for years and was a disaster waiting to happen.
The huge blast damaged buildings in a radius of several kilometres in Beirut, leaving more than 200,000 homeless or living in homes with no windows or doors.
President Michel Aoun has asked the government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is formed.
During his trip to Beirut on Thursday, Macron had announced that France would organize an international aid conference to raise funds for emergency relief.
The instruction comes just days after the massive blasts in the port of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing more than 137 people and injuring over 5,000.
The explosions hit a country already reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades which has left nearly half of the population in poverty, as well as from the coronavirus pandemic.
"It would seem like it, based on the explosion. I met with some of our great generals and they just seemed to feel that it was", Trump further added.
Two enormous explosions devastated Beirut's port on Tuesday, leaving at least 73 people dead and as many as 3,700 injured across wide parts of the country's biggest city.
The blasts were so massive they shook the entire city and could be heard throughout the small country, and as far away as Nicosia on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, 240 kilometres (150 miles) away.
