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US President Donald Trump says the Beirut blast 'looks like a terrible attack' and sends America's 'deepest sympathies to the people of Lebanon,' during a press conference at the White House. Two enormous explosions in Beirut's port killed at least 73 people and injured thousands, shaking distant buildings and spreading panic and chaos in the capital. SOUNDBITE
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
Scenes in Beledweyne where nine people, including senior regional officials, have been killed in twin car bomb attacks claimed by the extremist Islamist group Al-Shabaab. IMAGES
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