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Feds: Businessman illegally exported vehicles to Lebanon

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A man waits his turn to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination campaign, at the Saint George Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Lebanon launched its inoculation campaign after receiving the first batch of the vaccine — 28,500 doses from Brussels with more expected to arrive in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

World Bank threatens to suspend vaccine funding to Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers wearing protective suits clean tar from a beach after an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea in Sharon Beach Nature Reserve, near Gaash, Israel, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Volunteers mobilize to clean Israel’s tar-coated beaches

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

UN gives green light to fund Lebanon tribunal for 2021

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A mother of a victim of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion reacts next of a portrait of her son who killed during the explosion, during a sit-in outside the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Lebanon's highest court asked the chief prosecutor investigating last year's massive Beirut port explosion to step down, following legal challenges by senior officials he had accused of negligence that led to the blast, a judicial official and the country's official news agency said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

New Lebanese prosecutor to lead probe into Beirut blast

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A healthcare worker receives Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination program at the American University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon administers 1st vaccines to health workers, elderly

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Workers unload boxes of the first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 from a plane, at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (AP Photo / Bilal Hussein)

First batch of Pfizer vaccines arrive in Lebanon

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Stanley’s Fuchsia Farm Produces Godly Wines

By KATHLEEN SHAW Daily News-Record - Associated Press

File - In this Oct. 31, 2016 file photo, Lebanese Army Commander Jean Kahwaji, left, reacts as he leaves the parliament building after he attended the session of the presidential elections, in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's former army chief Jean Kahwaji told the lead investigator of last year's massive Beirut port blast on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, that he recommended years before the explosion that tons of seized ammonium nitrate stored there be sold privately or sent back to importer because the military had no use for them. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese ex-army chief testifies in Beirut port blast probe

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This photo provided by Monika Borgmann shows her husband, Lokman Slim, a well-known Lebanese publisher and vocal critic of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group, at his desk in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Jan. 5, 2017. Slim was killed Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Borgmann said she is discussing with lawyers and friends how to push for an international investigation into her husband's murder. (Lokman Slim family via AP)

Family, friends bid farewell to slain Lebanese publisher

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Members of Lebanese NGO Baytna Baytak Firas Minnawi, right, and Mario Suleiman, left, unpack oxygen machine to be donated to an elderly COVID-19 patient in Beit Shebab, a mountain village 15 mile (24 km) north of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. The group of Lebanese activists are matching empty apartments and hotel rooms with nurses and doctors who are serving countless hours in the country's hospitals overwhelmed with COVID patients and who need a place to rest without endangering their families or elderly parents. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese group gives a home away from home to health workers

By FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

Hezbollah harm and murder illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Who killed Lokman Slim?

By Clifford D. May

Relatives of the victims of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion hold portraits of their loved ones who were killed, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon. The vigil at the seaport main entrance, marked six months since the blast that killed more than 200 people and injured thousands. The Arabic words on poster read &quot;Who brought nitrates and for who? We have a right to know.&quot; (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Prosecutor in Lebanon’s port blast summons former army chief

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

German Monika Borgmann, wife of Lokman Slim, a well-known Lebanese publisher and vocal critic of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim political party, which has an armed wing of the same name, who was killed Thursday, speaks during an interview at her house in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Borgmann said she is discussing with lawyers and friends how to push for an international investigation into her husband's murder. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Wife: No signs of torture on body of slain Hezbollah critic

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Rasha, sister of Lokman Slim, a longtime Shiite political activist and researcher, who has been found dead in his car, speaks to journalists at her house in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Family of Lebanese activist wants to know if he was tortured

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese activists display symbols of justice during a protest against the slow pace of the investigation into the August 4 explosion that hit Beirut's seaport, outside the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 3, 2020. The blast was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and six months later, political and confessional rivalries have undermined the probe into the Beirut port explosion and brought it to a virtual halt, mirroring the same rivalries that have thwarted past attempts to investigate political crimes throughout Lebanon's history. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

‘Not like every time:’ Beirut blast victims want the truth

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Body of Lokman Slim, a longtime Shiite political activist and researcher, who has been found dead in his car, lies on the ground as Lebanese security forces inspect the scene in Addoussieh village, in the southern province of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Prominent Lebanese Hezbollah critic found killed in his car

By AHMAD MANTASH and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Israeli army says drone comes under fire over Lebanese skies

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Lebanon’s Hezbollah group says it shot down Israeli drone

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People line up to enter a supermarket, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Panic buyers swarmed supermarkets after reports the government planned to also order them shut in the tightened lockdown. Long lines formed outside chain supermarkets, sparking fear the crowds could further spread the virus. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon raises price of bread amid worsening economic crisis

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press