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Dragon blood tree at Diksam Plateau, on Yemen's Socotra Island. It's one of the sites included on the 2022 Watch from the World Monuments Fund.

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Sites in Beirut, Benghazi and Brownsville, Texas, make a most-endangered list

Neda Ulaby

Beirut's historic city center and the traditional territory of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas are among 25 places listed by World Monument Watch as in urgent need of preservation.

An aerial view of demolished structures at the port, damaged by Tuesday's explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on Wednesday. The enormous blast, which officials said was driven by thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, killed at least 137 people and injured thousands more.

Beirut Death Toll Rises After Enormous Explosion

Bill Chappell

In Lebanon's devastated capital, at least 137 people are dead and some 5,000 injured. A question looms over the stockpile of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate believed to have exploded: Why was it there?

A helicopter hovers over damaged grain silos in Beirut's port on Wednesday, one day after a powerful explosion tore through Lebanon's capital.

Enormous Explosion Rocks Beirut, Killing More Than 100, Wounding Thousands

Bill Chappell

The dramatic blast was caught on numerous videos by people who had been filming a fire that was burning at an industrial port in Lebanon's capital.