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Images of the Beirut port on the morning of the one year anniversary of the deadly blast that rocked the Lebanese capital and levelled entire neighbourhoods, killed more than 200 people, wounded 6,500 others and pummelled the lives of survivors. IMAGES
Gigantic plumes of thick black smoke billow from a huge fire that erupted at Beirut port, weeks after a deadly blast caused by hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate ripped through the capital. IMAGES
Rescue crews work to clear rubble the morning after a deadly Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs targeting senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. Hezbollah said that Shukr was inside the building hit by Israel the previous day and that his fate was still unknown. IMAGES
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
Lebanese protesters march in the capital Beirut to mark three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the city. IMAGES