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Anti-government demonstrators throw stones toward riot police during a protest against a parliament session for a vote of confidence for the new government in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Cabinet wins vote of confidence from Parliament

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Israel hits Iran-backed posts in Syria, casualties reported

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Anti-government protesters wave Lebanese flags and chant slogans, during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s only English-language daily stops print edition

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 2016 file photo, provided by Guila Fakhoury, her father, Amer Fakhoury, holds his granddaughter, Kira, in King of Prussia, Penn. Lebanese Judicial officials said Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, that a military investigative judge has charged Amer Fakhoury, a Lebanese-American, with murder and torture of Lebanese citizens. The charges could carry a death sentence. Fakhoury allegedly committed the crimes during Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon. Fakhoury was detained after returning to his native Lebanon from the U.S. in September. He's also undergoing cancer treatment, and may not be able to stand trial. (Guila Fakhoury via AP, File)

Lebanese-American who worked for Israel charged with murder

By BASSEM MROUE and KATHY McCORMACK - Associated Press

Probe of Lebanese-American who worked for Israel postponed

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Protesters throw stone during a protest is held against the proposed peace deal for the Middle East by President Donald Trump, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians demonstrated Sunday near the U.S. embassy in Lebanon in rejection to a White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Protesters outside US Embassy in Lebanon decry Trump plan

By MALAK HARB - Associated Press

CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER CREDIT TO HASSAN AMMAR Anti-government protesters chant slogans, during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government in front of the Central Bank, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar )

Protesters march in Lebanon to reject new government

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Lebanese army soldiers try to remove burning tires which were set on fire by the anti-government protesters to block the southern entrance of a highway during a protest against the newly formed cabinet, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Clashes in crisis-hit Lebanon as lawmakers pass budget

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese men pass in front of a coffee shop that was smashed by anti-government protesters, during a protest against the new government, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Lebanon's new government, made up of members nominated by the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies got down to business Wednesday, a day after it was formed. Questions arose immediately about its ability to halt a spiral of economic and political collapse. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

New Lebanese minister says he won’t permit attacks on police

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

President Michel Aoun, center, speaks with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Zeina Akr, center, right as Prime Minister Hassan Diab, center left, looks on during the cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. A new Cabinet has been announced last night in crisis-hit Lebanon, breaking a months-long impasse amid mass protests against the country's ruling elite. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanese Cabinet faces multiple challenges, growing unrest

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 file photo, anti-government protesters smash a bank widows, during ongoing protests against the Lebanese central bank's governor and against the deepening financial crisis, at Hamra trade street, in Beirut, Lebanon. For years, many Lebanese have lived beyond their means, supporting their out-sized spending with loans and remittances from diaspora relatives. A severe financial crisis and unprecedented capital controls have put a stop to this, uniting rich and poor in anger against a banking system they accuse of holding their deposits hostage. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Facing humiliating controls, Lebanese focus fury on banks

By A.J. NADDAFF - Associated Press

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, center, meets with Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab, right, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, left, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

New government in crisis-hit Lebanon, but protests continue

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Riot police fire rubber bullets against anti-government protesters, during ongoing protests against the political elites who have ruled the country for decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Lebanese security forces used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets in clashes with hundreds of anti-government protesters outside the country's Parliament on Sunday, as violence continued to escalate in a week of rioting in the capital. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

American journalist freed in Lebanon after questioning

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Riot police stand guard during clashes with anti-government protesters, during ongoing protests against the political elites who have ruled the country for decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Lebanese security forces used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets in clashes with hundreds of anti-government protesters outside the country's Parliament on Sunday, as violence continued to escalate in a week of rioting in the capital. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanese officials vow to step up security after riots

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Riot policemen watch flames rise from the tents of anti-government protesters, which where set on fire by civilian men believed to be the private unit of the parliament guards, during ongoing protests against the political elites who have ruled the country for decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. Riot police fired tear gas and sprayed water cannon near parliament in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters after riots broke out during a march against the ruling elite amid a severe economic crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Violence escalates in Beirut as protesters clash with police

By SARAH EL DEEB and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

In this 2001 photo, John Lesko is led by sheriff deputies from the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg, Pa. John Lesko can be seen in the top left as he exits the transport van. Jim Clawson hopes that one day he will watch the last breaths of the man who killed his friend and fellow police officer 40 years ago. Clawson has been waiting for decades to be summoned as a witness to John Lesko’s final day. But it’s more likely that Lesko — Pennsylvania’s longest-serving death row inmate — will die in prison by some other means. Lesko and another man were arrested in the so-called ‘Kill for Thrill’ spree.(Renatta Signorini/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

Man on death row 40 years after ‘Kill for Thrill’ murders

By RENATTA SIGNORINI and Tribune-Review - Associated Press

Illustration on Iranian proxies by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump rejects the fake separation between Iran and its militias

By Tony Badran

Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn speaks to Japanese media during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. A lawyer for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon, on Friday slammed a gaffe by the Japanese justice minister who said that Ghosn should “prove&quot; his innocence. Ghosn, who was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges, fled Tokyo and appeared in Beirut Dec. 30. (Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP)

Ghosn lawyers rebut new Nissan claims against fugitive exec

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters stand atop a road sign and flash the victory sign as others block a main highway in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Protesters closed major roads in the capital Beirut and around wide parts of Lebanon paralyzing the country as the political crisis over the formation of a new government worsens. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah warns of ‘chaos’ if Lebanon government delayed

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

GOP prosecutor wins central Pennsylvania state Senate seat

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