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A man walks near a cordoned off area which is almost empty of residents and tourists, officially closed following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Unrest grows in crisis-hit Lebanon amid coronavirus lockdown

By FADI TAWIL and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

A worker cleans a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, installed to commemorate the anniversary of his killing, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, in Ghobeiry, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

In Beirut, a bronze bust of Iran general sparks controversy

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Lebanese security forces wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, as they stand guard at a street full of restaurants where revelers celebrating the New Year Eve, in Beirut, Lebanon, early Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. Lebanon ended the year with more than 3,500 newly registered infections of coronavirus and 12 new deaths as its health minister rang appealed to Lebanese to take precautions while celebrating to avoid what he called wasting sacrifices made in combatting the virus. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

New Year’s Eve celebratory gunfire kills 1 in Lebanon

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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020 file photo, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, speaks during a press conference after his government was announced, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon. Diab said Tuesday, Dec. 29 he was shocked to learn that he was being charged of negligence in the Aug. 4 port explosion, saying that he did his utmost duty during the short term in office after which he learned about the chemicals that had been stored at the port for more than six years. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanese PM slams ‘diabolical’ move to charge him over blast

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

An injured man stands at the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport in Beirut Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. Massive explosions rocked downtown Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings and blowing out windows and doors as a giant mushroom cloud rose above the capital. Witnesses saw many people injured by flying glass and debris. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon prosecutor pauses port probe amid legal challenges

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, worshippers chant slogans during Friday prayers ceremony, as a banner show Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, left, and Iraqi Shiite senior militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack on Jan. 3, and a banner which reads in Persian: &quot;Death To America, &quot;at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Iran's supreme leader said in his sermons President Donald Trump is a &quot;clown&quot; who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will &quot;push a poisonous dagger&quot; into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

In a year dominated by pandemic, many other dramas unfolded

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Rubble, spilled grains remain around towering silos gutted in the massive August explosion at the Beirut port that claimed the lives of more than 200 people, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. A heated debate is underway in Lebanon over the fate of the towering silos with some arguing the gutted silos could collapse at any moment, and must be demolished, while others call for the ruins to be preserved as a grim memorial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Beirut silos at heart of debate about remembering port blast

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference on the situation in Lebanon. France and the U.N. will host a new conference next week about aid to Beirut after its devastating port explosion in August, amid political deadlock and a worsening economic crisis in Lebanon, the French presidency said Friday, Nov. 27. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)

France and UN rally aid for Lebanon, urge political reforms

By ZEINA KARAM and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

France, UN to host new Lebanon aid conference amid deadlock

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Samih Zreik stands in front of his house, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, in Dearborn, Mich. Zreik painted his house in tribute to Lebanon following the blast at Beirut's port that killed nearly 200 people, wounded more than 6,000 and caused billions of dollars in damage. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

US charities raise millions in wake of Beirut port blast

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER - Associated Press

A statue of soldier carries balance, symbol of justice, is seen outside the military court in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. A year after anti-government protests roiled Lebanon, dozens of protesters are being tried before military courts that human rights lawyers say grossly violate due process and fail to investigate allegations of torture and abuse. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

In Lebanon, army courts target anti-government protesters

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY - Associated Press

Lebanon begins two-week lockdown to limit spread of virus

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Hassan Taha, who suffers from a heart condition, receives medication from a pharmacist at the Amel Association, a Lebanese humanitarian group, in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Lebanese have been forced to search far and wide for their prescriptions after many medications vanished from pharmacies. It's the latest chapter in their country's financial breakdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Frantic search after medicines vanish from Lebanon shelves

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Albanian Prime Minister's office, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama sits at a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, 26, 2020, with Albanian children as part of an operation to take them back home to Albania from Al Hawl, northern Syria. A few hundred Albanian men are known to have joined terror groups in Syria and Iraq in the early 2010s, and now many of them are dead and their family members are stuck in Syria camps, but will be repatriated via Beirut to Albania. (Albanian Prime Minister's office via AP)

Albania repatriating 5 family members of fighters in Syria

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Women walk past a graffiti &quot;Hope&quot; painted on metals barrier that closed the entrance of a hotel that was damaged by Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets in protests nationwide that raised hopes among many for a change in a political elite that over that decades has run the country into the ground. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

After Lebanese revolt’s fury, waning protests face long road

By DALAL MAWAD - Associated Press

A UNIFIL Navy ship patrols in the Mediterranean Sea next to a base of the U.N. peacekeeping force, off the southern town of Naqoura, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Lebanon and Israel are to begin indirect talks Wednesday over their disputed maritime border, with American officials mediating the talks that both sides insist are purely technical and not a sign of any normalization of ties. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

US official holds Beirut meetings after Israel-Lebanon talks

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Lebanese soldiers stand guard as U.N. peacekeeping vehicles enter the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the southern Lebanese border town of Naqoura, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Lebanon and Israel are to begin Wednesday indirect talks over the disputed maritime border between the two countries in the presence of American officials who are mediating between the Middle Eastern nations. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon, Israel begin indirect talks over maritime border

By BILAL HUSSEIN and BASSEM MROUE and JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Former American professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, right, rides with Lebanese and foreign cyclists at the site of the Aug. 4 deadly blast in the port of Beirut that killed scores and wounded thousands in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Armstrong led the charity bike tour named, &quot;Bike for Beirut,&quot; to raise awareness and fund organizations that are helping residents of the Lebanese capital who suffered losses as a result of the massive blast. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lance Armstrong leads Beirut bike tour to help blast victims

By HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

Lebanese army soldiers stand guard as anti-government protesters block a main highway during a demonstration against deteriorating economic conditions as politicians are deadlocked over forming a new government, in the town of Jal el-Dib, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Mustapha Adib resigned Saturday amid a political impasse over government formation, dealing a blow to French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to break a dangerous stalemate in the crisis-hit country. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

EU concerned over resignation of Lebanon’s PM-designate

By BASSEM MROUE and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

A Hezbollah civil defense ambulance block a road that leads to the site of an explosion that rocked a Hezbollah stronghold, in the southern village of Ain Qana, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. The powerful explosion sent thick grey smoke billowing over the village, but the cause was not clear. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Powerful blast rocks Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon

By ZEINA KARAM and AHMAD MANTASH - Associated Press