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In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab reviews the honor guard of the United Nations peacekeepers, upon his arrival at their headquarters in the southern coastal border town of Naqoura, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The visit comes against the backdrop of a war of words between Israel and Lebanese officials, including the powerful Hezbollah group, over the mandate of the U.N. troops, known as UNIFIL, deployed in southern Lebanon since an Israel invasion in 1978. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanese PM visits UN peacekeepers amid dispute over mandate

Associated Press

In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 photo, a nurse tests a Bangladeshi worker for the coronavirus, near a building where dozens of foreign workers living in overcrowded apartments have tested positive for the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon. Some 250,000 registered migrant laborers in Lebanon — maids, garbage collectors, farm hands and construction workers — are growing more desperate as a crippling economic and financial crisis sets in, coupled with coronavirus restrictions. With no functioning airports and exorbitant costs of repatriation flights, many are trapped, unable to go home. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s migrant workers’ plight worsens as crises multiply

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Israel demands major changes in UN peacekeeping in Lebanon

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A Lebanese army soldier throws a tear gas canister towards anti-government protesters in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Hundreds took part in the funeral of a young man killed in riots overnight in Tripoli that were triggered by the crash of Lebanon's national currency that sent food prices soaring. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

IMF chief says talks with Lebanon on reforms to begin soon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

UN backs Lebanon in economic crisis, call for global help

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 3, 2020, photo, balconies of an old building are reflected in the glass door of a closed bar during the coronavirus pandemic, in central Beirut, Lebanon. The owners of some of Lebanon’s best-known clubs have pulled together a three-day non-stop virtual music festival. This time, 150 DJs from around the world are playing for a cause. They're collecting donations for the thousands of servers, bartenders, waiters and other daily wage earners who have been without a job since coronavirus restrictions forced a shutdown in mid-March. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon restaurants partially reopen, face faltering economy

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

A Lebanese army soldier throws a tear gas canister towards anti-government protesters in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Hundreds took part in the funeral of a young man killed in riots overnight in Tripoli that were triggered by the crash of Lebanon's national currency that sent food prices soaring. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese PM says Cabinet will seek IMF financial assistance

By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters scuffle with Lebanese army soldiers in the town of Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 27, 2020. Scattered anti-government protests broke out in several parts of Lebanon on Monday amid a crash in the local currency and a surge in food prices, leading to road closures that prevented medical teams from setting out from Beirut to conduct coronavirus tests across the country. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Riots in crisis-hit Lebanon reflect growing poverty, despair

By BASSAM HATOUM and BILAL HUSSEIN - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, boys sit amid the rubble of a house that according to the Syrian authorities was attacked by an Israeli airstrike, in the Damascus suburbs of Hajira, Syria, Monday, April 27, 2020. The Syrian military and state media said Monday that Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing three civilians. An opposition war monitor says four Iran-backed fighters were also killed. The military says Syrian air defenses shot some of the missiles down. The reports said the attack happened around dawn on Monday. (SANA via AP)

Reports: Israeli strike on Syria kills 4 gunmen, 3 civilians

By BASSEM MROUE and ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, two workers climb down from one of the tanks in an oil tank-farm in Jebel Ali, 25 miles (40 km) south of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The historic crash in oil prices in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic is reverberating across the Middle East as crude-dependent countries scramble to offset losses from a key source of state revenue. The economies of all the Arab Gulf oil exporters are expected to contract this year. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Mideast economies take massive hit with oil price crash

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Lebanese riot police wear masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, as they stand guard in front the central bank building, where the anti-government protesters protest against the Lebanese central bank's governor Riad Salameh and against the deepening financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Riots in impoverished north Lebanon city amid currency crash

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they march during a protest against the Lebanese central bank's governor Riad Salameh and against the deepening financial crisis, at Hamra trade street, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Attackers lob explosive at Lebanon bank amid currency crisis

Associated Press

Lebanese riot police stand guard in front of a bank entrance, after the anti-government protesters try to destroy banks windows during a protest against the Lebanese central bank's governor Riad Salameh and against the deepening financial crisis, at Hamra trade street, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon PM blames currency crash on Central Bank governor

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 20, 2017 file photo, Syrian refugee children play outside their family tents at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern city of Baalbek, Lebanon. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday, April 22, 20202, that a Palestinian woman from Syria living in a refugee camp in Lebanon has become the first refugee to test positive for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon tightens security around refugee camp over virus

By BASSAM HATOUM and HUSSEIN MALLA - Associated Press

An anti-government protester stands on the top of her car shouting slogans and waving the Lebanese flag, during driving protest through the streets to express rejection of the political leadership they blame for the economic and financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Lebanon's parliament began Tuesday a three-day legislative session at a Beirut theater so that legislators can observe coronavirus social distancing measures, as protests against the country's ruling elite in the crisis-hit country resumed. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s currency on downward spiral amid financial turmoil

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Gunman shoots nine people dead in Lebanese mountain village

Associated Press

A car drives past Le Bristol hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2020. One of the country's landmark hotels that has survived the country's bloody 15-year civil war is closing its doors due to a combination of an economic crisis and the global health threat of the COVID-19 coronavirus, one of its executives said Saturday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Landmark Lebanese hotel folds amid virus, economic crisis

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020 photo, volunteers from Lebanese charity Beit el-Baraka, fill boxes with essential food supplies to distribute to the poor, during a lockdown due to the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon. Wealthier Western countries are considering how to ease lockdown restrictions and start taking gradual steps toward reviving business and daily life. But many developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, can hardly afford the luxury of any misstep. Consider tiny Lebanon, a country teetering on the abyss of bankruptcy with a fragile health system, a restless population and no tools for mapping a way out of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Poorer nations face bigger risk in easing virus restrictions

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A staff member talks on his mobile phone at the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 9, 2020. Saudi Arabia closed off air and sea travel to nine countries affected by the new coronavirus Monday as Mideast stock markets tumbled over fears about the widening outbreak's effect on the global economy. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Mideast economies battered by virus, oil prices and conflict

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

A highway is empty of cars during a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

IMF projects Lebanon’s economy will shrink 12% in 2020

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press