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Riot policemen watch flames rise from the tents of anti-government protesters, which where set on fire by civilian men believed to be the private unit of the parliament guards, during ongoing protests against the political elites who have ruled the country for decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. Riot police fired tear gas and sprayed water cannon near parliament in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters after riots broke out during a march against the ruling elite amid a severe economic crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Violence escalates in Beirut as protesters clash with police

By SARAH EL DEEB and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators throw stones toward riot police at a road leading to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. Riot police fired tears gas and sprayed protesters with water cannons near parliament building to disperse thousands of people after riots broke out during a march against the ruling elite amid a severe economic crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Riots in Lebanon’s capital leave more than 150 injured

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A woman looks at the broken glass of Bank of Beirut that was smashed by anti-government protesters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Banks in Hamra trade street were badly damaged after a night that witnessed clashes between anti-government protesters and Lebanese riot police. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Top UN official in Lebanon blasts politicians’ inaction

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

An anti-government protester drops oil on burning tires and wood during ongoing protests after weeks of calm in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Lebanon is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, with the local currency losing over 60% of its value to the dollar over the last weeks while sources of foreign currency have dried up. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Pitched clashes near Lebanon’s central bank amid protests

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This image released by the Syrian Presidency shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin's visit is the second to the war-torn country where his troops have been fighting alongside Syrian government forces since 2015. (Syrian Presidency via AP)

Russia’s Putin visits Syria to meet Assad, a key Iran ally

By ALBERT AJI and DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn travels in a car, in Tokyo, after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in bail once an appeal by prosecutors against his release was rejected. On Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of Ghosn, who skipped bail while awaiting trial on financial misconduct allegations, and left for Lebanon. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. File)

Ex-Nissan chief made escape to Beirut aboard charter flights

By SUZAN FRASER and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves Tokyo's Detention Center for bail in Tokyo. By jumping bail, Ghosn, who had long insisted on his innocence, has now committed a clear crime and can never return to Japan without going to jail. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

What we know about ex-Nissan boss Ghosn’s escape to Beirut

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - This March, 2019, file photo shows former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, right, and his wife Carole in Tokyo. Ghosn, awaiting trial in Japan on financial misconduct charges, has received permission from a Tokyo court to talk for one hour in a video call with his wife. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn, facing Japan trial, arrives in Beirut

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters occupy the Hamra branch of BLC Bank Dec. 28, 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon. Banks have imposed weekly limits on withdrawals of U.S. dollars amid a shortage in liquidity and as the country grapples with its worst economic and financial crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. The country has been without a prime minister since ongoing mass protests forced the resignation of Premier Saad Hariri on Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Lebanese protesters turn their ire on banks

By MAYA ALLERUZZO - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019 photo, shows an empty restaurant at lunchtime, in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's unprecedented economic crisis and two months of mass protests have taken a huge toll on hotel and restaurant industries, with massive losses reported by various businesses. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s vital tourism industry takes huge hit amid turmoil

By AJ NADDAFF - Associated Press

Newly-assigned Lebanese Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, gestures to journalists after arriving to his home following his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Lebanon’s new PM says he plans a government of experts

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Lebanese Government, Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, meets with Samir Khatib, the head of a major contracting and construction and once considered a favorite candidate for the post of Prime Minister, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanon’s caretaker PM no longer candidate for post

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Riot police officers beat an anti-government protester during a protest near the parliament square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. The recent clashes marked some of the worst in the capital since demonstrations began two months ago. The rise in tensions comes as politicians have failed to agree on forming a new government. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Protests turn violent for 2nd day in Lebanon’s capital

By HUSSEIN MALLA and DALAL MAWAD - Associated Press

Supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal Movement groups, background, fire firecrackers against the riot policemen, foreground, as they try to attack the anti-government protesters squares, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. Lebanon has been facing its worst economic crisis in decades, amid nationwide protests that began on Oct 17 against the ruling political class which demonstrators accuse of mismanagement and corruption. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hourslong clashes between police, protesters engulf Beirut

By HUSSEIN MALLA and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 photo, Lebanese anchorwoman Dima Sadek uses her cellphone to film an anti-government protest, in Beirut, Lebanon. Sadek, who last month resigned as an anchorwoman at the LBC TV, blamed Hezbollah supporters for robbing her smartphone while she was filming protests, and said the harassment was followed by insulting and threatening phone calls to her mother, who suffered a stroke as a result of the stress. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s journalists suffer abuse, threats covering unrest

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Syrian refugees who will stay in Lebanon wave goodbye to their relatives in a bus that will take them home to Syria, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. Hundreds of Syrian refugees have returned home in the first batch to leave Lebanon since protests broke out in the country more a month ago. Lebanon is hosting about 950,000 registered Syrian refugees according to the U.N. refugee agency. The government estimates the true number of Syrian refugees in the country at 1.5 million. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s outgoing PM backs businessman to replace him

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese protesters shout slogans as they march in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. Protesters have been holding demonstrations since Oct. 17 demanding an end to widespread corruption and mismanagement by the political class that has ruled the country for three decades. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese army separates rival protests near president palace

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Protesters chant slogans during ongoing protests against the Lebanese political class as riot police stand guard in front of Finance Ministry building in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Protesters have been holding demonstrations since Oct. 17 demanding an end to widespread corruption and mismanagement by the political class that has ruled the country for three decades. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Gas station strike paralyzes Lebanon as crisis deepens

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese troops and riot police, stand guard behind barbed wire, as a few dozen people demonstrate and chant slogans, during a protest against what they called, &quot;America's intervention in Lebanon's affairs,&quot; near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. Arabic at lower left corner reads, &quot;police state protects Zionists.&quot; (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Police fire tear gas as groups clash in Lebanon capital

Associated Press

Lara, center, the wife of Alaa Abou Fakher, a man killed by a Lebanese soldier on Tuesday night protests in southern of Beirut, mourns with other relatives as they wave Lebanese flags over his body, during his funeral in Choueifat neighborhood, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. For nearly a month, the popular protests engulfing Lebanon have been startlingly peaceful. But the death of the 38-year-old father by a soldier, the first such fatality in the unrest, points to the dangerous, dark turn the country could be heading into. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Soldier who shot Lebanese protester dead charged with murder

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