{"id":205118,"date":"2020-08-04T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=205118"},"modified":"2020-08-05T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:19:53","slug":"beirut-blast-kills-injures-many-tues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=205118","title":{"rendered":"Beirut Blast kills dozens, injures thousands,  Tues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-205119\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutblast2020-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutblast2020-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutblast2020-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutblast2020-313x175.jpg 313w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutblast2020.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BEIRUT (AP)\u00a0 \u2014 Lebanon&#8217;s health minister says at least 50 people were killed and over 2,700 were injured in the huge explosion that rocked Beirut. The blast flattened much of the the city&#8217;s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. A civil defense official said his men had evacuated dozens to hospitals and that there were still bodies under debris. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. An Israeli government official says Israel \u201chad nothing to do\u201d with it. The blast was stunning even for a city that has seen civil war, suicide bombings and bombardment by Israel. It could be heard and felt as far away as Cyprus, across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT (AP)\u00a0 \u2014 Lebanon&#8217;s health minister says at least 50 people were killed and over 2,700 were injured in the huge explosion that rocked Beirut. The blast flattened much of the the city&#8217;s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. A civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205167,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205118\/revisions\/205167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}