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No Beirut blast inquiry request, says U.N. after Macron call for probe UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has not received any requests to investigate the deadly explosion in Beirut's port, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday after French President Emmanuel Macron called for an...

Here is the story from AFP. I would say this is just a case of ordinary criminal negligence and mismanagement in very corrupt countries. “Nearly 3,000 tons of a highly explosive fertilizer that caused Tuesday’s devastating blast in Beirut came from a ship owned by a Russian businessman, the...

A330-MRTT of the French Airforce from close up.

I guess that is the tweet

Someone has to be accountable for this :mad2:

There was such a giant blast in Toulouse, France, back in 2001, leaving 29 dead. Ammonium nitrate was also involved. At the time, there were lot of rumors of a terror attack, but they could not be verified. The explosion was not filmed...

A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. The health minister said more than 25 people were killed and over 2,500 injured. https://apnews.com/d6503f7d779f2790218fe29121368788