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Lebanon probes blast amid rising anger, calls for change

by Associated Press
| August 6, 2020 4:27 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port, and the visiting French president warned Thursday that without serious reforms the country would “continue to sink.”

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