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Lebanese Mohammed Sufian, 21, sits outside his house, in Tripoli, north Lebanon Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, days after he was rescued at sea by a U.N. naval force after trying to migrate with his family on a boat to Cyprus. He ended up losing his two-year-old son as a result of severe heat with no food or water on board. Mohammed is among dozens of people who have tried in recent weeks to flee Lebanon to Europe amid a devastating and unprecedented economic and financial crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

One family’s desperate, deadly attempt to flee Lebanon

By BASSAM HATOUM and HUSSEIN MALLA - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 18, 2009 file photo, shows Roumieh Prison, in the Beirut suburb of Roumieh, Lebanon. The head of the country's doctors union warned Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 that Roumieh, Lebanon's largest prison, is witnessing an alarming spread of coronavirus cases with more than 200 detainees testing positive recently and more could get the infection as many of them are not abiding by preventive measures. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Virus hits Lebanese prison as inmates jockey for release

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Prime Minister-Designate Mustapha Adib speaks with journalists after his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Lebanese officials are holding eleventh-hour negotiations over the formation of a new government, a process which hit snags over the weekend despite a looming deadline to deliver on a promise made to French President Emmanuel Macron. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Warnings as Lebanon misses government formation deadline

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Debris from the ceiling and walls cover the floor of a room in the 150-year-old Sursock Palace that was damaged by the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Restoring Beirut's architectural heritage from the August blast will take hundreds of millions of dollars and costs will quickly rise if no action is taken ahead of the onset of the rainy season in less than two months time, international experts announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Experts: Rainy season to further threaten Beirut heritage

By RAF CASERT and BASSAM HATOUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug.6, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, and Lebanese President Michel Aoun, second right, meet at Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, in Lebanon. In the wake of Beirut's massive port explosion, Macron has taken a tough line, setting deadlines for Lebanon's politicians to carry out reforms. His hands-on approach has angered some in Lebanon and brought praise from others. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool, File)

France tries forcing change on Lebanon’s politicians

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This Aug. 28, 2020 photo shows destroyed port warehouses at the scene of last month's massive explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. A month after the giant explosion that killed and injured thousands and destroyed homes across the Lebanese capital, Beirut is still a wounded, grieving city struggling to come to grips with the calamity that struck abruptly on Aug.4. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Italy’s premier urges Lebanon to form Cabinet, start reforms

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this August 5, 2020 file photo, smoke rises from the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. It was 20 minutes before 6:08 p.m. when the Beirut fire brigade received the call from an employee at the nearby port reporting a big fire. Ten firefighters, including a female paramedic, piled into a fire engine and an ambulance and raced toward the scene, and their ultimate death. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

For Lebanese, recovery too heavy to bear a month after blast

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A Lebanese soldier, left, stand guards next to trucks that were destroyed by the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Macron is visiting Lebanon to press the country's political leaders to chart a new path for Lebanon, ending years of corruption and mismanagement. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A month on, signal in Beirut rubble raises hope for survivor

By BILAL HUSSEIN - Associated Press

Lebanese Prime Minister-Designate Mustapha Adib wears a protective face mask as he arrives to attend a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. rench President Emmanuel Macron returned to Lebanon on Monday, a country in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, for a two-day visit and a schedule packed with events and political talks aimed at charting a way out for the country. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)

Lebanese PM-designate wants reform-minded Cabinet

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Lebanese protesters hold placards during a protest against the Bisri dam project, in the Bisri Valley, 58 kilometers (36 miles) southeast of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March. 10, 2019. The valley of Bisri in Lebanon lies on a green fertile bed, a spot that has cradled civilizations dating as far back as the Bronze Age. Its expansive lands of pine, citrus trees and ancient ruins are about to turn into a controversial mega dam funded by the World Bank. For years now, activists and locals have voiced their opposition to what they describe as not only &quot;an environmental crime,&quot; but also a project that mirrors Lebanon's governance crisis. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

World Bank-funded dam in Lebanon mirrors governance crisis

By Dalal Mawad - Associated Press

A crooked paint hangs on the wall of the Sursock Palace, heavily damaged after the explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. The 150-year-old palace withstood two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman empire, the French mandate and Lebanese independence. After the country's 1975-1990 civil war, it took 20 years of careful restoration for the family to bring the palace back to its former glory. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Lebanese philanthropist Lady Cochrane dies of blast injuries

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Arnaud Tranchant, left, chief Navy officer for the French helicopter carrier Tonnerre, talks to French President Emmanuel Macron off the port of Beirut, Tuesday, Sept.1, 2020. The visit was Emmanuel Macron's second since the devastating Aug. 4 explosion — the most destructive single incident in Lebanon's history — that killed at least 190 people . (Stephane Lemouton, Pool via AP)

French leader warns Lebanese politicians of ‘last chance’

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1938 file photo, General Henri Gouraud, leader of the French Fourth Army at the end of World War One, buying a cornflower in aid of ex-service organizations in Paris, France. It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on the porch of the French residence in Beirut surrounded by local politicians and religious leaders and declared the State of Greater Lebanon - the precursor to the modern state of Lebanon. (AP Photo, File)

Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Workers repair water tanks and damaged apartments overlooking the site of the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Diplomat tapped to be PM vows reforms in crisis-hit Lebanon

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese and French soldiers patrol on a boat by the damaged site of the massive blast in Beirut's port area, in Beirut, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron will arrive for a two day-visit, days after the devastating Aug. 4 blast in the port of Beirut that killed at least 190 people, wounded 6,000 and damaged residential and commercial areas in large parts of the capital. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)

World Bank: Lebanon blast caused damage up to $4.6 billion

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Amin Sherri, a Lebanese lawmaker of the Hezbollah bloc, center, speaks with families of the victims who were missing from the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. For many, the Iran-backed Hezbollah now stands at the top of Lebanon’s sectarian-based system of power — and so is complicit in the corruption many blame for the port disaster and for driving the country into near bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s powerhouse Hezbollah hit by backlash after blast

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Workers repair water tanks and damaged apartments overlooking the site of the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Consultations to name new PM in Lebanon to begin on Monday

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A worker works inside a heritage house that was damaged by Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, as part of it hold by scaffolding, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2020. In the streets of Beirut historic neighborhoods, workers are erecting scaffolding to support buildings that have stood for more than a century - now at risk of collapse after the massive Aug. 4 explosion that tore through the capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Beirut residents determined to save heritage lost to blast

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese media: Sectarian clashes near Beirut leave 2 dead

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, meets with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, second right, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, right, and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, left, at the presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut. Beirut's massive explosion fueled widespread anger at Lebanon's ruling elite, whose corruption and negligence many blame for the disaster. Yet, three weeks later, the change many hoped for is nowhere in sight. The same politicians are negotiating among themselves over a new government. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool, File)

Weeks after blast, Lebanon patronage system immune to reform

By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press