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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
A vigil is held in London's Kensington Gardens, near the Lebanese embassy, in honour of the victims of the Beirut blast. A cataclysmic explosion at Beirut port has sowed devastation across entire city neighbourhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis. IMAGES
Relatives of the victims Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider arrive at the courtroom where the closing arguments are being held in the trial of Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, on trial before the Paris Special Assize Court for complicity in the murder of the police couple in the name of the Islamic State at their home in Magnanville, near Paris, on 13 June 2016. 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
Images of the site of the August 4, 2020 blast at the Beirut port as Lebanon's marks three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the Lebanese capital. Still nobody has been held to account as political and legal pressures suspend the investigation. IMAGES
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