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President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump again says Lebanon blast might have been attack

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

People evacuate wounded after of a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Trump calls Beirut explosion likely ‘attack’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Lebanon's government, Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti, holds a news conference following the meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, at the Lebanese foreign ministry, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday July 23, 2020. Hitti resigned on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, becoming the first Cabinet minister to defect from his post amid the severe economic and financial crisis striking the country. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanese foreign minister quits over lack of will to reform

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

A gas station workers gestures as he saying no fuel at the station, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Lebanon is hurtling toward a tipping point at an alarming speed, driven by financial ruin, collapsing institutions, hyperinflation and rapidly rising poverty _ with a pandemic on top of that. The collapse threatens to break a nation seen as a model of diversity and resilience in the Arab world. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Analysis: Often on brink, Lebanon headed toward collapse

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Salesman, staple: Owner retires after 40-year career

By JAKE NEWBY and Pensacola News Journal - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers gather near shells at an Israeli mobile artillery unit in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The Israeli military on Monday said it thwarted an infiltration attempt by Hezbollah militants — setting off one of the heaviest exchanges of fire along the volatile Israel-Lebanon frontier since a 2006 war between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Lebanon accuses Israel of provoking border escalation

By BASSAM HATOUM - Associated Press

Anti-Hezbollah protesters hold banners with the U.N. Resolution 1559, which was adopted in Sept., 2004, that called for disarmament all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, during a sit-in against Hezbollah and Iran in front the United Nations headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel says it thwarts Hezbollah infiltration attempt

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli drone crashes in Lebanon amid tensions with Syria

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian wears a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus during his visit to the Carmel Saint Joseph school in the Mechref district, south of the capital Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 24, 2020. Le Drian pledged on Friday € 15 million ($ 17 million) in aid to Lebanon's schools, struggling under the weight of the country's major economic crisis. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

France pledges $17 million to Lebanon’s struggling schools

By BILAL HUSSEIN - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, arrives to meet Lebanese president Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

French foreign minister: IMF only way out of Lebanon crisis

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A nurse checks a dialysis patient at a governmental hospital, in Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, July 16, 2020. Just as Lebanon faces a surge in coronavirus cases, hospitals are cracking under the country's financial crisis. They are struggling to pay staff, keep equipment running or even stay open amid shortages in key supplies like anesthesia and sutures. The health sector has long been one of the best in the Middle East, with its private hospitals drawing patients from around the region. But with dollars in short supply and the state unable to pay insurance bills, hospitals are having to turn away patients and close wards to cut costs. Public facilities, on the front line of the coronavirus fight, are too underfunded and understaffed to fill the gap. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Crisis hits Lebanon’s hospitals, among the best in Mideast

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 20, 2020. Hassan said that the financially troubled Mediterranean country which has so far managed to contain the coronavirus, is sliding toward a critical stage, with a new surge of infections after lockdown restrictions were lifted and the airport reopened. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Minister: Lebanon is nearing critical stage in virus cases

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

An anti-government protester shouts slogans while wearing a mask with the colors of the Lebanese flag in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Major retailers in Lebanon announced Thursday they will temporarily close in the face of an increasingly volatile currency market and their inability to set prices while the local currency tumbles before the dollar. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon contracts NY-based company to do forensic audit

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar speaks during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 16, 2020. Lebanon's worsening economic crisis which culminated with the tiny nation defaulting on its debt this year is making it increasingly difficult to attract investors to the country's ailing electricity sector, which has been a huge drain on state coffers for decades, Ghajar said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Minister: No investors for Lebanon’s ailing power sector

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 11, 2020, file photo, an anti-government protester chants slogans as others burn wood and barriers to block a road during a protest against the political leadership they blame for the economic and financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon. In recent weeks, Lebanon has been looking for stronger economic relations with eastern countries including China, Iraq and Russia as western countries and oil-rich gulf states have abstained from helping Prime Minister Hassan Diab's government that is backed by Hezbollah and its allies. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon looks to China as US, Arabs refuse to help in crisis

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Ghosn says he is aiding those who helped him flee to Lebanon

Associated Press

A supporter of a communist group burns representation of U.S. currency, during a protest against U.S. interference in Lebanon's affairs, near the U.S. embassy, in Aukar northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese hold raucous rally outside US Embassy in Beirut

Associated Press

People line up outside an exchange shop to buy U.S. dollars, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 17, 2020. Lebanon's financial meltdown has thrown its people into a frantic search for dollars as the local currency's value evaporates. Long, raucous lines mass outside exchange bureaus to buy rationed dollars. Many try to rescue their dollars trapped in bank accounts frozen by the government. With tens of thousands thrown into poverty, the turmoil is fueling bitterness at banks and politicians. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hottest commodity in Lebanon’s economic chaos: The US dollar

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

The capital city of Beirut remains in darkness during a power outage, Monday, July 6, 2020. The government in highly indebted Lebanon is in talks with the International Monetary Fund to secure financial assistance. But the talks have been bogged down by political divisions. Poverty and unemployment have been rising, only to be compounded by the economic restrictions imposed in effort to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s rising power cuts add to gloom of economic crisis

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A police officer gives instructions to people to observe social distancing, as people walk outside a court in Istanbul, Friday, July 3, 2020, where the trial began for defendants accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan. A private airline official, four pilots and two flights attendants are on trial in Istanbul, accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan to Lebanon, via Turkey. Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to eight years in prison each for the four pilots and the airline official on charges of illegally smuggling a migrant, for helping Ghosn escape to Lebanon while he awaited trial in Japan. (AP Photo/Mehmet Guzel)

Turkey: pilots on trial over Ghosn escape released from jail

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press