A fire raging for a week in the Lebanese port of Beirut, devastated by a blast in 2020, threatens to trigger the collapse of a grain silo, media reported

French shipping company CMA CGM said on Thursday that its subsidiary signed an agreement with Lebanon on the modernization of the container terminal of the Beirut port with a target to increase its capacity to 1.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).

The United States sanctions against Lebanese companies and individuals for alleged ties to the Hezbollah movement may destabilize the internal political situation in the country, the Russian ambassador in Beirut, Alexander Rudakov, told Sputnik

Drivers of public transport and trucks on Wednesday blocked the main entrances to Beirut and several other major Lebanese cities in a general strike to demand improvements in their living conditions, a Sputnik correspondent reported