A powerful gas explosion tore through a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least three people and ripping the facade off the structure.

At least two people have died in a blast in central Madrid that an initial assessment linked to a gas leak, the city’s mayor said. The explosion partially destroyed a building.

A large explosion has struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed cabinet landed there, security officials said. At least 16 people were killed and 60 were wounded in the blast.

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A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan’s capital killed at least nine people, according to the Afghan interior ministry.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister will not meet with the prosecutor investigating the Beirut port explosion as requested, persons familiar with the case said, adding the premier has already given the prosecutor all the information he has.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister and three former ministers have been charged over the massive port explosion in Beirut in August, the country’s official news agency has said.

A former Afghan TV presenter and two other civilians have been killed after a bomb attached to his car exploded in Kabul.

At least eight students have died and 136 others were hurt after a bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar.

A powerful blast ripped through a multistorey building in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring 15 others, police and rescuers said.

Firefighters say they have brought under control a huge fire that terrified residents of Lebanon’s capital five weeks after a massive blast killed and wounded thousands of people there.

A huge fire has broken out at the Port of Beirut, triggering panic among residents a month after a massive explosion at the site in Lebanon.

A bombing in the Afghan capital targeted the convoy of the country’s first vice president, killing 10 people and wounding more than a dozen others, including several bodyguards, the Interior Ministry has said.

Rescue workers have resumed search operations in a building that collapsed last month in Beirut’s deadly blast in the hope of finding a survivor under the rubble after a pulsing signal was detected.

A pulsing signal has been detected from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there may still be a survivor buried there.

One of Lebanon’s most prominent philanthropists, Lady Yvonne Sursock Cochrane, has died from injuries she suffered in the massive August 4 explosion that ripped through Beirut. The family said Lady Cochrane died on Monday from her injuries, aged 98.

A Lebanese diplomat has been appointed to form a new government in the crisis-hit country after winning the backing of major political parties.

Lebanon is in such a deep political and economic crisis that the country risks collapsing altogether, France’s foreign minister has said.

The head of Lebanon’s customs authority was formally arrested on Monday after being questioned over the massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has said the investigation into a devastating blast in Beirut is “very complex” and will not be finished quickly.

The death toll from last week’s massive explosion in Lebanon’s capital has risen to nearly 180, with an estimated 6,000 people injured and at least 30 missing, the United Nations said on Friday.

The FBI will join Lebanese and other international investigators in the probe of the huge explosion at Beirut’s port that killed more than 170 people, injured thousands and caused widespread destruction, a US diplomat has said.

Lebanon’s Parliament has approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the explosion in the city last week. It has granted the military sweeping powers amid rising anger and political uncertainty in the capital.

Beirut has marked a week since the catastrophic explosion that killed at least 171 people, injured thousands and plunged Lebanon into a deeper political crisis.

Lebanon is marking a week since a massive explosion in Beirut flattened much of its capital’s port, damaged buildings and left thousands of people dead and injured. Several events, including a moment of silence at 6.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab has announced he is stepping down in the wake of the massive explosion in Beirut that has triggered public fury and protests.

Lebanon’s cabinet has resigned over the devastating explosion in Beirut last week, the country’s health minister has said.

Lebanon’s health minister has said the country’s “whole government” has resigned in the wake of the deadly explosion in Beirut last week.

Lebanon’s justice minister has resigned, the third Cabinet member to do so following last week’s devastating explosion in Beirut, the state news agency has reported.

International donors have pledged a total of 252. 7 million euro (£228. 39 million) in emergency aid during a conference for Lebanon. Sunday’s donor teleconference was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Lebanon’s information minister has resigned as the country grapples with the aftermath of the devastating blast that ripped through the capital and raised public anger to new levels.

Public fury over this week’s massive explosion in Beirut took a new turn on Saturday as protesters stormed government institutions and clashed for hours with security forces, who responded with heavy volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets.

Lebanon’s prime minister says he will introduce a draft bill proposing early elections for the crisis-stricken country, as police clashed with demonstrators in Beirut following the explosion that devastated large parts of the city and killed more ...

Police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in Lebanon’s capital on Saturday, at the start of a planned protest over this week’s massive explosion that devastated large parts of Beirut and killed more than 150 people.

Senior officials from the Middle East and Europe started arriving in Lebanon on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the tiny country after the deadly explosion in Beirut which caused large-scale damage in the capital.

Concerns were raised about a stockpile of explosive chemicals being kept without safeguard at least 10 times before the deadly explosion in Beirut, newly surfaced documents show.

Lebanon’s president knew about the huge stockpile of explosive material stored at Beirut’s port nearly three weeks before it blew up, he has said. Michel Aoun said on Friday that he ordered action be taken about it at the time.

Rescue teams were still searching the rubble of Beirut’s port for bodies, nearly three days after a massive explosion sent a wave of destruction through Lebanon’s capital, killing nearly 150 people and wounding thousands.

Sixteen employees at Beirut’s port have been detained over the explosion that killed more than 100 people and wounded thousands, according to reports.

Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation into the massive blast that tore through Beirut have sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port.

Lebanese army bulldozers ploughed through wreckage to reopen roads around Beirut’s demolished port, a day after the government pledged to investigate this week’s devastating explosion and placed port officials under house arrest.

Investigators began searching the wreckage of Beirut’s port for clues to the cause of the massive explosion that ripped across the Lebanese capital as the government ordered port officials put under house arrest.

Many nations have rallied around Lebanon as it continues to deal with the aftermath of the huge explosion in Beirut that killed at least 100 and injured thousands.

Residents of Beirut awoke to a scene of devastation on Wednesday, a day after a massive explosion at the city’s port sent shock waves across the Lebanese capital, killing dozens of people and wounding thousands.