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Several Lebanese parties said on Wednesday they would boycott a parliamentary session called to discuss a proposal that critics say would effectively derail judicial efforts to question senior officials over the Beirut port blast. More than a year since the Aug.... 4 blast, many Lebanese are furious that no senior official has been brought to account for more than 200 lives lost and thousands of injuries. With leading Christian and Druze groups planning to boycott, it was not clear if there wou

Open this photo in gallery Razor wire in front of the site of the Beirut port explosion, on Sept.... 4, 2020, blast, one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions on record, which killed more than 200 people and devastated swathes of Beirut. Bitar is under enormous pressure from groups that have been accusing his probe of political bias and mounting a smear campaign against him.... The leader of the powerful, heavily armed Shi’ite political movement Hezbollah announced on Monday it wanted Bitar re

BEIRUT( Reuters)-The judge in charge of the investigation into the Beirut port blast will seek to question top politicians and security officials, Lebanon's national news agency said on Friday, almost a year after the explosion that devastated the capital. The blast in August, blamed on a huge quantity of chemicals left for years in poor storage conditions, deepened a political and economic crisis in the heavily indebted country. Ordinary Lebanese have grown increasingly angry that no senior off

Open this photo in gallery Aftermath of a massive explosion is seen in in Beirut on Aug.... Hassan Ammar/ The Associated PressA probe into the catastrophic Beirut port explosion faced being derailed for the second time this year on Monday when a senior politician wanted for questioning filed a complaint doubting the lead investigator’s impartiality. The move followed a smear campaign by Lebanon’s political class against judge Tarek Bitar, who was appointed after his predecessor was forced out f