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Thursday, October 17, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Source: Threats made to evacuate buildings housing Norwegian embassy, Al Jazeera bureau in Beirut deemed fake
Threats made to buildings in downtown Beirut on Thursday, including to the offices of Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV and the Norwegian embassy, are deemed to have been fake, a Lebanese security source and a diplomatic source tells Reuters.
Al Jazeera earlier said that its downtown Beirut office had been evacuated after the building received several warnings, without saying who issued them. Norway’s embassy was also evacuated following a “bomb threat,” the Norwegian foreign ministry said.
