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Clashes erupt between Lebanese protesters and security forces in downtown Beirut as the country marks the first anniversary of the port blast that ravaged the city and killed more than 200 people. Dozens were injured when Lebanese police clashed with protesters demanding accountability for last year's Beirut port explosion. IMAGES
Lebanese march towards Beirut's port to mark a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged the city, protesting impunity over the country's worst peacetime disaster at a time when its economy was already in tatters. IMAGES
People gather in the street at the site of explosion in Al-Musharrafiya area, in Beirut's southern suburbs. An Israeli drone struck a Hamas office killing four people, Lebanese state media said. 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
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