Lebanon
Crisis-hit Lebanon to reopen classrooms starting in September
Rights groups have decried an 'education catastrophe', with more than a million children in Lebanon out of school since the country's COVID-19 outbreak began in...
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'Nothing left': in crisis-hit Lebanon bread too is scarce
Lebanese flocked to bakeries before dawn on Friday, desperate to find affordable bread in a country where fuel and medicine are already in critically short supply.
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Pope back to full-time work with call for Lebanon aid
The 84-year-old took time to bless children and pose for selfies in the Vatican at the weekly general audience one month to the day after the delicate operation, which saw him hospitalised for over a week.
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Grief and wrath as Lebanon marks year since deadly blast
What went down as one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history killed at least 214 people, levelled entire neighbourhoods and irreparably scarred the nation's psyche as well deepening the country's economic abyss.
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Obstruction to Beirut blast probe 'shameless': Amnesty
A year after the August 4 explosion that killed more than 200 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods of the city, no official has been brought to justice. The blast, considered one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history, was caused by hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a dockside warehouse.
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One year on, political interference besets Beirut blast probe
The domestic investigation has yet to determine what triggered the blast, where the chemicals originated from or why they were left unattended for six years.
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Lebanon approves ration card to replace subsidies
Lebanon is in the throes of an economic crisis the World Bank has described as likely one of the world's worst in modern times.
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Lebanon crises leave LGBTQ community with no safe place
Religiously diverse Lebanon is one of the Middle East's more liberal countries, but the LGBTQ community continues to face systematic social, economic and legal discrimination.
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Lebanon returns two stolen 18th-century icons to Greece
The paintings were stolen from an exhibition in Athens in 2016, and Greece put out an international notice calling for their return.
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Lebanon enters full lockdown to stem virus uptick
The lockdown, ordered after some hospitals started to run out of intensive care beds, includes a 24-hour curfew until January 25.
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Fearing 'disaster', Lebanon mulls new COVID-19 lockdown
The country of six million people has recorded 83,697 cases of COVID-19 including 652 deaths since February.
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Hezbollah says border talks not 'normalisation' with Israel
Lebanon and Israel, which are still technically at war, last week said they had agreed to begin UN-brokered negotiations over the shared frontier, in what Washington hailed a "historic" agreement.
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Terrified mothers-to-be adjust after Beirut blast
Lebanon had already been mired in its worst economic crisis in decades and battling the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Lebanon to compensate for Beirut blast lost homes, businesses
The compensation will go to owners of homes and businesses damaged in the explosion that left more than 190 dead and devastated swathes of the capital, a source at the presidency said.
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US accuses Hezbollah of ammonium nitrate stockpiles in Europe
"Since 2012, Hezbollah has established caches of ammonium nitrate throughout Europe by transporting first aid kits whose cold packs contain the substance," US counterterrorism coordinator Nathan Sales said.
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Huge fire at Beirut port weeks after deadly blast
It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze just over a month after the August 4 blast which killed more than 190 people, wounded thousands and ravaged much of the capital.
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Search resumes for possible Beirut blast survivor after pulse detected
A specialist sensor device on Thursday had detected a pulse beneath a levelled building between the hard-hit Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhail districts, raising hopes that a survivor could be found more than four weeks after the disaster that killed at least 191 people.
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Pope says Lebanon faces 'extreme danger' after blast
In his first oublic appearance in six months, the leader of the Catholic Church focused on the disaster-hit country almost a month after the huge blast in the Beirut harbour ripped through the city, killing more than 180 people.
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Lebanon's leaders agree on new prime minister before Macron visit
With the economy on its knees, a swathe of Beirut in tatters and sectarian tensions rising, the former French protectorate is facing the biggest threat to its stability since a 1975-90 civil war.
