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Analysis: Often on brink, Lebanon headed toward collapse
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Analysis: Often on brink, Lebanon headed toward collapse

BEIRUT (AP) — Power cuts that last up to 20 hours a day. Mountains of trash spilling into streets. Long…
Ethiopian maids ‘dumped’ in the streets in Lebanon as COVID hits
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Ethiopian maids ‘dumped’ in the streets in Lebanon as COVID hits

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian mother Alemtsehay Nasir went to Lebanon dreaming that her maid’s job would let her earn…
Major Beirut medical centre lays off hundreds as crisis bites
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Major Beirut medical centre lays off hundreds as crisis bites

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Zawqan Abdelkhalek, a nurse at the American University of Beirut’s (AUB) medical centre since 2012, was laid…
Lebanese man who financed Hezbollah in US returns home
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Lebanese man who financed Hezbollah in US returns home

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese businessman serving a five-year sentence in the United States for providing millions of dollars to…
Hottest commodity in Lebanon’s economic chaos: The US dollar
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Hottest commodity in Lebanon’s economic chaos: The US dollar

BEIRUT (AP) — The lines snaked around the block. Then they swelled to fill the whole street, before they turned…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah talks to government about Iran fuel idea
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah talks to government about Iran fuel idea

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The powerful Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it is in talks with the Lebanese government about the…
Dozens mourn man who killed himself in busy Beirut district
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Dozens mourn man who killed himself in busy Beirut district

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Dozens of people lay flowers on a main Beirut street where a man killed himself on Friday,…
Families of Syria detainees hope for news amid US sanctions
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Families of Syria detainees hope for news amid US sanctions

BEIRUT (AP) — Alaa Arnous and his family found the photo of his father Mohammed online last week, the first…
Lebanon’s crisis, pandemic hit American University in Beirut
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Lebanon’s crisis, pandemic hit American University in Beirut

BEIRUT (AP) — One of the Arab world’s oldest and most prestigious universities, which endured civil war, kidnappings and various…
Beirut’s nightlife on the brink as pandemic compounds financial crisis
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Beirut’s nightlife on the brink as pandemic compounds financial crisis

BEIRUT (Reuters) — Beirut loves to party, even when the going gets tough. Which is often. The city and its…
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