Bulgaria arrests shipowner linked to 2020 Beirut blast

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A shipowner wanted over a 2020 blast at Beirut port that killed more than 220 people has been arrested in Bulgaria, officials have said. The August 4, 2020, disaster was one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions, ravaging swathes of the Lebanese capital and wounding more than 6,500 people. Authorities have said the blast was triggered by a fire in a warehouse