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'We don't seem to learn': Beirut explosion echoes US tragedy

by Associated Press
| August 6, 2020 12:06 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The staggering videos from the Lebanese capital are grimly familiar to Tommy Muska thousands of miles away in Texas: a towering blast, a thundering explosion and shock waves demolishing buildings with horrifying speed.

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