Beirut’s Devastating Blast May Be Linked To Seized Russian-Owned Cargo Ship

(RFE/RL) -- Media reports say a large supply of ammonium nitrate that exploded on August 4 at a warehouse in the port of Beirut was likely unloaded there years earlier from a cargo ship that had been seized from its Russian owner, businessman Igor Grechushkin.

Lebanese Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi told a local TV station...