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FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2020 file photo, French emergency workers, part of a special unit working with chemicals, walk next to damaged containers near the site of last week's explosion, in the port of Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's judicial investigation of the Beirut port explosion started with political wrangling over the naming of a lead investigator, military threats to jail leakers and doubts over whether a panel appointed along sectarian lines could be fully impartial. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

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Families of Lebanese blast victims plead for outside inquiry
August 14, 2020 1:49 p.m.

Families of Lebanese blast victims plead for outside inquiry

Lebanese survivors of the massive port explosion and relatives of the victims are asking the U.N. Security Council for an international investigation into the blast that wrecked their capital