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A man, with a beard, talks to police as he holds hostages at gunpoint in Beirut,, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A Lebanese security official says a man armed with a shotgun has broken into a Beirut bank, holding employees hostage and threatening to set himself ablaze with gasoline unless he receives his trapped saving. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Armed man demanding savings holds Beirut bank staff hostage

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A boat with Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and U.N. officials heads to the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni, to check if the grain shipment is in accordance with a crucial agreement signed last month by Moscow and Kyiv, at an inspection area in the Black Sea off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. The cargo ship Razoni, loaded up with 26,000 tons of corn, set sail from Ukraine's Odesa on Monday, enroute to final destination, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Ukraine urges Lebanon to block ship with grain from leaving

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Hezbollah supporters hold a portrait of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah with Arabic words read: &quot;We will stay with you,&quot; during an election campaign, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Despite a devastating economic collapse and multiple other crises gripping Lebanon, the culmination of decades of corruption and mismanagement, the deeply divisive issue of Hezbollah's weapons has been at the center of Sunday's vote for a new 128-member parliament. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy Lebanon

By Clifford D. May

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center, arrives at the plenum ahead of the vote on a bill to dissolve parliament, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Lapid will serve as caretaker prime minister until elections this fall. It would be Israel's fifth election in under four years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel shoots down Hezbollah drones over Mediterranean

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Lebanese army vehicles patrol a street as they past a billboard depicting Lebanese candidates for Sunday's parliamentarian elections, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Lebanese authorities began distributing ballot boxes to polling stations around the country on Saturday, a day before parliamentary elections were to be held. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Mired in collapse, Lebanese vote for new parliament

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A Hezbollah supporter holds up an Arabic banner that reads: &quot;At your service Nasrallah,&quot; as he attends an election campaign, in Baalbek, east Lebanon, Friday, May 13, 2022. Despite a devastating economic collapse and multiple other crises gripping Lebanon, the culmination of decades of corruption and mismanagement, the deeply divisive issue of Hezbollah's weapons has been at the center of Sunday's vote for a new 128-member parliament. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah weapons at the heart of Lebanon’s elections Sunday

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo by United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), UNIFIL's flagship, BRS Liberal, approaches a boat overcrowded with migrants in the Mediterranean Sea on Oct. 12, 2018. The Lebanese army Sunday, April 24, 2022, recovered the bodies of eight migrants whose boat carrying more than 50 people capsized the night before, raising the death toll to nine, state media reported. (UNIFIL via AP, File)

Bodies of 6 people from sunken migrant boat found in Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

FILE - Pope Francis reads his speech at the 'John XXIII Peace Lab' center for migrants he founded in 1971 in Hal Far, Malta, Sunday, April 3, 2022. The office of Lebanon's president says Pope Francis will visit the country in June. President Michel Aoun’s office said he received the Vatican’s ambassador to Lebanon on Tuesday, April 5, and he informed him that Pope Francis will visit in June and the exact date and schedule will be decided later. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud, File)

Pope Francis to visit Lebanon in June during economic crisis

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Lebanon Police personnel walk up Reinoehl St. in Lebanon, Pa., after a city policeman was killed and two others wounded by a 34-year-old suspect, who was also shot and killed, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (Mark Pynes/The Patriot-News via AP)

Pennsylvania policeman killed, 2 officers hurt in shooting

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Public transport buses block a road, during a general strike by public transport and labor unions to protest the country's deteriorating economic and financial conditions in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Protesters closed the country's major highways as well as roads inside cities and towns starting 5 a.m. making it difficult for people to move around. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah, ally end Cabinet boycott in crisis-hit Lebanon

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Lebanese army soldiers on armed vehicles patrol, in Ain el-Remaneh neighborhood, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Lebanese authorities freed Wednesday a freelance American journalist who was detained in Beirut last month. The release came just hours after two international human rights groups called her detention arbitrary and demanded that she be set free. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

U.S. journalist freed in Lebanon after call by rights groups

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in an oil facility in the southern town of Zahrani, south of the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. A huge fire broke out at an oil facility in southern Lebanon's coastal town of Zahrani, but the cause was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Huge fire extinguished at oil facility in southern Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

Hezbollah supporters listen to their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as he speaks via a video link during Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration marking the death of Immam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. Nasrallah said Thursday that the first Iranian fuel tanker will sail toward Lebanon &quot;within hours&quot; warning Israel and the United States not to intercept it. (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah says Iranian fuel tanker to sail to Lebanon soon

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Tokyo. Nearly three years later, Kelly is still wondering why the questions that led to his arrest and trial in Japan weren’t simply taken up in the automaker's corporate boardroom. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Ex-Nissan exec Greg Kelly wants boardroom, not criminal, trial

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

A Lebanese army soldier displays part of an Israeli missile from an airstrike in Dimashqiya farmlands, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Aug 5, 2021. Israel on Thursday escalated its response to rocket attacks this week by launching rare airstrikes on Lebanon, the army and Lebanese officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah group says it fired rockets after Israeli airstrikes

By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

Fields burn following a hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory, near the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Three rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory Wednesday and the army responded with sustained artillery fire, Israel's military said. There was no immediate information on damages or casualties. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel launches airstrikes on Lebanon in response to rockets

By Laurie Kellman and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier takes cover as an Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ** FILE **

Israel fires back after 3 rockets launched from Lebanon

By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

In this Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly arrives for the first trial hearing at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo. Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has backed his former colleague American lawyer Kelly's insistence on his innocence of any wrongdoing. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File)

American on trial in Japan gets support from ex-boss Ghosn

By Yuri Kageyama and Jeffrey Schaeffer - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2021, file photo, Lebanese wave Hezbollah and Palestinian flags, as they stand in front of the Israeli town of Metula, background, on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Lebanon's Hezbollah militia looms large over the current Israel-Hamas war, even though it has stayed out of the fighting so far. Hezbollah's firepower is far greater than that of Gaza's Hamas rulers, and Israel keeps a wary eye on its northern border for any signs Hezbollah might get off the sidelines. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

On the sidelines, Hezbollah looms large over Gaza battle

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Pharmacist Rita El Khoury speaks in the middle of her empty pharmacy after selling her stock in preparation for her move to France with her husband, in Ballouneh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. They are part of the latest wave of emigration in the small country’s tortured modern history, driven by financial ruin, collapsing institutions, hyperinflation and rapidly rising poverty. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Driven by despair, Lebanese pharmacist looks to life abroad

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press