Lebanon
Trapped migrant workers suffer from Lebanon’s dollar crisis, lockdown
Middle East
May 22, 2020
Trapped migrant workers suffer from Lebanon’s dollar crisis, lockdown
BEIRUT (Reuters) — Temitope can’t find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employer’s house last month.…
Lebanon central bank to give dollars for food imports, defend currency
Middle East
May 21, 2020
Lebanon central bank to give dollars for food imports, defend currency
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s central bank will start providing dollars for food imports as part of “necessary measures” to defend…
Lebanese soldiers detained for slapping, pushing doctor
Middle East
May 20, 2020
Lebanese soldiers detained for slapping, pushing doctor
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese military has arrested two soldiers caught on camera slapping and pushing a doctor in an…
20 years after withdrawal, Israel, Hezbollah brace for war
Middle East
May 20, 2020
20 years after withdrawal, Israel, Hezbollah brace for war
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Twenty years after Hezbollah guerrillas pushed Israel’s last troops from southern Lebanon, both sides are gearing…
Lebanon central bank official probed over currency crash
Middle East
May 15, 2020
Lebanon central bank official probed over currency crash
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s financial prosecutor questioned a top central bank manager Friday over the country’s financial crisis, which has…
Restart or re-stop? Economies reopen to risk of chaos, fear
World
May 11, 2020
Restart or re-stop? Economies reopen to risk of chaos, fear
PARIS (AP) — Plastic spacing barriers and millions of masks appeared Monday on the streets of Europe’s newly reopened cities,…
Lebanon faces grave threat to stability as poverty mounts
Middle East
May 11, 2020
Lebanon faces grave threat to stability as poverty mounts
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Living in a slum built precariously on the banks of a sewage-tainted river in Lebanon, Faiqqa…
Lockdowns pile job losses and hunger onto Syrian refugees’ plight
Middle East
May 10, 2020
Lockdowns pile job losses and hunger onto Syrian refugees’ plight
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Ahmad al-Mostafa can’t afford milk for his baby daughter. A Syrian refugee, he has barely been able…
Prominent Beirut university faces fight of its life as crises hit
Middle East
May 8, 2020
Prominent Beirut university faces fight of its life as crises hit
BEIRUT (Reuters) — One of the Arab world’s oldest universities faces its worst crisis since its foundation, with huge losses,…
Lebanon to extend virus shutdown, fears second wave
Middle East
May 5, 2020
Lebanon to extend virus shutdown, fears second wave
BEIRUT (Reuters) — Lebanon is set to extend its lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus by two weeks until…