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IMF warns Lebanon is still facing enormous challenges, years after economic meltdown began
FILE - Protesters throw glass bottles at the Lebanese Central Bank building as they stand next to burning tires they set on fire, as frustrated depositors rally against Central Bank's Gov. Riad Salameh, who is facing corruption charges, and the deepening financial crisis in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 24, 2023. Four years after Lebanon's historic meltdown began, the small nation is still facing "enormous economic challenges," with a collapsed banking sector, eroding public services, deteriorating infrastructure, and worsening poverty, the International Monetary Fund warned Friday, Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
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Barrett leads balanced offence as Canada thumps Lebanon 128-73 at FIBA World Cup
Basketball - FIBA World Cup 2023 - First Round - Group H - Lebanon v Canada - Indonesia Arena, Jakarta, Indonesia - August 27, 2023 Canada's RJ Barrett scores a basket REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
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Bullets hit Lebanese defence minister’s car near Beirut, but no one hurt
Lebanese soldiers, top left, standing on their military truck cover boxes that were moved from an overturned truck, right, in the Christian town of Kahaleh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. A truck reportedly carrying weapons for the militant Hezbollah group overturned on a mountain road near the Lebanese capital and was followed by a shooting that left a few people dead, security officials and Hezbollah said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Canada joins U.S., Britain in sanctioning Lebanese trio accused of embezzlement
FILE - Riad Salameh the governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, listens to a journalist's question during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 11, 2019. The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada Thursday slapped sanctions on Lebanon's embattled ex-central bank governor and four family members and close associates for corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department said. Salameh, 73, ended on July 31, 2023 his 30-year tenure under a cloud of investigation and blame for his country's historic economic crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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Israeli forces shell southern Lebanon border village after rocket lands near disputed territory
A soldier walks near an Israeli army self propelled artillery vehicle on the outskirts of Kiryat Shmona near Israel's border with Lebanon on July 6, 2023. The Israeli army said it was conducting strikes on southern Lebanon after a mortar launched from its northern neighbour exploded in the border area between the two foes. The latest military action was launched three months after the two countries saw their worst cross-border fire in years. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn sues Nissan for more than US$1-billion in Lebanon, legal document shows
Fugitive former car executive Carlos Ghosn, gestures as he talks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon June 14, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
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Palestinian officials say Israeli strike on eastern Lebanon kills five militants, Israel denies role
A picture taken from the plain of Khiam shows a Lebanese army soldier standing guard as Israeli troops patrol the border on their side, following skirmishes between Lebanese youths and Israeli soldiers, at a rally to mark the 23rd anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, during which tear gas was fired, on May 25, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rockets
Jewish visitors walk past people reading the Koran, at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, while tension arises during clashes in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Attacks in Israel, West Bank kill three people as violence rises
Israeli gather near the Hamra junction in the northern part of the Jordan valley in the occupied West Bank following a shooting attack on April 7, 2023. - Two women were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting attack on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, Israeli army and medics said on April 7. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/afp/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel stages rare strikes in Lebanon, also hits Gaza Strip
Streaks of lights are seen from Ashkelon, Israel as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip April 6, 2023. REUTERS/ Amir Cohen
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Lebanon now has two time zones as clock change row deepens divisions
People walk near a clock tower at Parliament Square, in Beirut, Lebanon March 26, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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Israeli missile strikes building in central Damascus, five dead
FILE PHOTO: Police officers stand on the rubble of a damaged building at the site of a rocket attack, in central Damascus' Kafr Sousa neighborhood, Syria, February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi
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Lebanon cleric says judge probing port blast must be allowed to pursue truth
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the damage at the site of Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 5, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
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Lebanon is on the verge of becoming a failed state after an unprecedented economic collapse
Eric Reguly
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Amid standoff in Beirut blast probe, U.S. national released
Security forces push back relatives of victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, trying to push their way into the palace of justice after breaking the lock of the entrance gate, during a rally outside the building in the Lebanese capital Beirut, to support the judge investigating the disaster, on January 26, 2023, after he was charged by the country's top prosecutor in the highly political case. - One of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, the August 4, 2020 blast destroyed much of the Lebanese capital's port and surrounding areas, killing more than 215 people and injuring over 6,500. No official has been held accountable for the disaster. (Photo by Joseph EID / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)
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Lebanon’s top prosecutor orders release of suspects detained in connection with Beirut port blast
FILE - Aftermath of a massive explosion is seen in in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. The lead judge investigating the massive blast in Beirut’s port suspended his work in the case Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 after he was informed that a former Cabinet minister had submitted a request to recuse him. Judge Tarek Bitar, the second judge to lead the complicated and thorny investigation, cancelled the questioning of a former military intelligence general, scheduled for Monday. The Court of Appeals now has to decide whether to dismiss him from the case or not. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)
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Irish soldier killed on UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon
Lebanese army members and the United Nations peacekeepers (UNIFIL) stand near of what witnesses stated to be the UNIFIL vehicle that was carrying the Irish soldier who was killed on a U.N. peacekeeping Patrol, in Al-Aqbieh, south Lebanon December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
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Lebanon’s president approves historic maritime border deal with Israel
In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese president Michel Aoun addresses a speech on the maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel in the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Aoun said Thursday that the cash-strapped country has approved a U.S.-mediated maritime border deal with Israel. (Dalati Nohra via AP)
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Crisis-hit Lebanese parliament fails to elect president
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri heads the first session to elect a new president at the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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Boat tragedy kills 94 in Lebanon but others still plan to migrate
Mourners pray over the coffin of Palestinian Abdul-Al Omar Abdul-Al, 24, who was on a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon that sank in Syrian waters, during his funeral in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared near the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral Saturday for one of the scores of migrants who lost their lives this week when their boat sank off Syria's coast. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Syrian official says 77 dead so far in migrant boat sinking
Ambulances wait on the Lebanese side of the Arida Border Crossing with Syria on September 23, 2022, for the arrival of the bodies of the shipwrecked Lebanese, who drowned when a boat they boarded sank off Syria's coast. - At least 73 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years. Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, has become a launchpad for illegal migration, with its own citizens joining Syrian and Palestinian refugees clamouring to leave the country. Around 150 people, mostly Lebanese and Syrians, were on board the small boat that sank Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea off the Syrian city of Tartus. (Photo by Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP) (Photo by FATHI AL-MASRI/AFP via Getty Images)
international business
Bank holdups snowball in Lebanon as depositors demand their own money
Lebanese army soldiers stand guard outside a Blom Bank branch, which was held up by a depositor seeking access to his own savings, in the Tariq al-Jdideh neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon September 16, 2022. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah
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Not safe yet for Syrian refugees to go home, Harjit Sajjan says during Middle East tour
Canadian Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan, center right, with the Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon Chantal Chastenay, center left, stand next of Syrian refugee women as they listen to Maguy Ghanem a Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialist of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at a women clinic during their visit to Makassed primary health care center, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Sajjan said Syria is not safe yet for millions of refugees to start returning home and those who fled their homes did so only because they had to. He also said , he also said that Lebanon should work to reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund to start getting the small nation out its worst economic crisis in its modern history. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Attack on author Salman Rushdie shows divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim community
FILE PHOTO: Author Salman Rushdie listens during the opening news conference of the Frankfurt book fair, Germany October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski//File Photo
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Syria ready to repatriate refugees from Lebanon, cabinet minister says
FILE - Syrian refugees walk by their tents at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. A Syrian Cabinet minister said Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, that Syrian refugees in neighboring Lebanon can start returning home, where he said they will get all the help they need from authorities. Tiny Lebanon is home to 1 million Syrian refugees who fled war in their country after the conflict began in March 2011. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
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Hostage standoff at Beirut bank ends as armed man surrenders to police
Lebanese security forces secure the area outside a bank in Beirut,, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A Lebanese security official says a man armed with a shotgun has broken into a Beirut bank, holding employees hostage and threatening to set himself ablaze with gasoline unless he receives his trapped saving. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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UN’s deal to get Ukrainian grain to starving nations obstructed by business contracts
FILE PHOTO: The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni, carrying Ukrainian grain, is seen in the Black Sea off Kilyos, near Istanbul, Turkey August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Mehmet Emin Caliskan
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Hezbollah leader warns Israel over maritime border dispute with Lebanon
FILE - An Israeli Navy vessel anchored in the Mediterranean Sea is seen from the Rosh Hanikra border crossing between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, July 3, 2022. The Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, that any escalation on its northern border would be met with a harsh military response a day after the Israeli military said it intercepted a drone that crossed from Lebanese territory. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
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Part of Beirut’s port silos collapses on second anniversary
Part of the grain silos in the port of Beirut lies on the ground, minutes after it collapsed due to an ongoing fire since the beginning of last month, on August 4, 2022, on the day that crisis-hit Lebanon marks two years since a giant explosion ripped through the capital. - Several more grain silos damaged by the 2020 Beirut port explosion collapsed today, as hundreds marched toward them to mark the second anniversary of the disaster. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP) (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Lebanon, Israel closer to deal in maritime border dispute
In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, U.S. Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, second left, sits next to U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, first left, as they meet with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, third left, Lebanese president Michel Aoun, center, and Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, right, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Hochstein, a U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over a maritime border dispute between the two countries, said after meeting Lebanese leaders on Monday that he remains optimistic that continuous progress can be made. (Dalati Nohra via AP)
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Part of Beirut port silos collapses after fire, damage from 2020 blast
Part of Beirut's massive grain silos, shredded in the 2020 port blast, collapses after a weekslong fire in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, July 31, 2022. The northern block of the silos toppled in a huge cloud of dust on Sunday after what sounded like an explosion. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Saudi political dissident Manea al-Yami killed in Lebanon, party statement says
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Israeli Prime Minister Lapid visits Macron, calls return to Iran nuclear deal ‘dangerous’
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
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Lebanon’s Najib Mikati named PM, urges action to secure IMF deal
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati speaks following his meeting with the president at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on June 23, 2022. - Lebanon's lawmakers designated incumbent Prime Minister Najib Mikati to form a new government, more than a month after parliamentary elections that yielded no clear majority. (Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP) (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Lebanon receives Interpol wanted notice for ex-Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn
(FILES) This file photo taken on September 29, 2020 shows Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn attending a press conference with the President of Lebanon's University of Kaslik (USEK) launching a joint initiative to help the crisis-ridden country, in the northern city of Jounieh. - Carlos Ghosn and four managers of the Omani car distributor Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA) have been the subject of arrest warrants issued by the French judiciary for the past week for organized money laundering and corruption scheme supported by the investigators. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)