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A woman walks by burning tires that were set fire to block a road during a protest against government's plans to impose new taxes in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. The protests erupted over the government's plan to impose new taxes during a severe economic crisis, with people taking their anger out on politicians they accuse of corruption and decades of mismanagement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Latest: Protesters meet with Lebanese president Aoun

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A woman walks by burning tires that were set fire to block a road during a protest against government's plans to impose new taxes in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. The protests erupted over the government's plan to impose new taxes during a severe economic crisis, with people taking their anger out on politicians they accuse of corruption and decades of mismanagement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Faced with protests, Lebanon PM blames own gov’t for crisis

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

An anti-government protester makes victory signs in front a fire set to block a road during a demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Scores of people are protesting in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon over the government's plans to impose new taxes amid a harsh economic crisis in the country. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Protests spread across Lebanon over proposed new taxes

By FADI TAWIL - Associated Press

A Lebanese fireman extinguishes a fire near Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Strong fires spread in different parts of Lebanon forcing some residents to flee their homes in middle of the night as the flames reached residential areas in villages south of Beirut. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Wildfires spread through parts of Lebanon, Syria

By HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

Emiratis can again travel to Lebanon, after yearslong ban

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FILE - This combination of six portraits shows Hezbollah's senior leadership who the U.S. put under heavy sanctions in May 2018, from top left to right: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sheik Naim Kassem the deputy chief of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah's executive council, bottom left to right, Hussein Khalil the political aide of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed, head of Hezbollah political bureau, Mohammed Yazbek head of Hezbollah's religious council. The Trump administration has been imposing sanctions on Hezbollah and institutions linked to it at an unprecedented rate in recent months, targeting lawmakers in Lebanon’s parliament for the first time, as well as a local bank that Washington claims has ties to the group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

US sanctions squeezing Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanon man convicted of killing woman dies in prison

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FILE - This Jan. 22, 2019, file photo, a man heads to the Lebanese central bank in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's central bank has issued guarantees to secure U.S. dollars for local banks at the fixed official rate that would cover imports of fuel, wheat and medicine. The central bank's move on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 aims to ease the demand for dollars at a time when many Lebanese are rushing to exchange shops to convert their local currency into dollars. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s central bank secures dollars to cover some imports

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters chant slogans as riot policemen close the road to the government house during a demonstration, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019. Hundreds of Lebanese are protesting an economic crisis that has worsened over the past two weeks, with a drop in the local currency for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Protests in Lebanon’s capital over worsening economic crisis

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Sept. 18, 2019 photo, a Lebanese deminer from Humanity and Inclusion, a French-based international non-governmental organization, removes sand from around an anti-personal mine, at a cedar forest, in Hadath El-Jebbeh, north Lebanon. Three decades after Lebanon's civil war ended, deminers are still working to clear this mountainous region in northern Lebanon famous for its forests of centuries-old cedar trees. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese clear civil war-era mines from famed cedar forests

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Marshall Billingslea, left, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. Billingslea met Monday with the prime minister, parliament speaker and the central bank governor. The central bank governor said Billingslea is here to explain the motives behind recent U.S. sanctions targeting Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US official meets in Lebanon over anti-Hezbollah sanctions

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Australian-Lebanese dual citizen Amer Khayyat stands as he holds his Australian passport, after his release from prison in Roumieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Lebanese authorities have released the Lebanese -Australian who had been detained in Lebanon for more than two years after he was found innocent in an alleged plot to bring down a passenger plane bound for the United Arab Emirates from Sydney. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Australian-Lebanese jailed on Sydney bomb plot set free

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Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab points to parts of an Israeli drone that crashed in southern Beirut last month during a press conference to announce the results of an investigation into the incident, at the Lebanese Defense Ministry, in Yarzeh near Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. The investigation has concluded that two Israeli drones that crashed in the Lebanese capital last month were on an attack mission, one of them armed with 4.5 kilograms of explosives. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon concludes Israeli drones were on attack mission

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Lebanese Army soldiers stand guard outside a military court where an arrest warrant was issued for Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, who confessed he'd worked for Israel during its occupation of Lebanon for nearly two decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Fakhoury was detained after returning to his native Lebanon from the United States earlier this month. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Arrest warrant for Lebanese-American who worked for Israel

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 16, 2006 file photo, a Lebanese man walks past the damaged former Israeli Khiam prison, in the southern town of Khiam, Lebanon, that was attacked during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive. Lebanon General Security Directorate says it has referred a Lebanese-American to prosecutors after he confessed that he worked for Israel. Amer Fakhoury was detained days after returning to Lebanon earlier this month for being a top warden at the Khiam Prison that was run by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia until Israel ended an 18-year occupation in 2000. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

Lebanese-American to be prosecuted for working for Israel

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, meets with David Schenker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Hariri received Schenker who will mediate between Lebanon and Israel over a maritime border dispute. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon PM, US diplomat talk offshore gas feud with Israel

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In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Aoun, center, meets with political leaders with the aim of finding solutions to the country's economic crisis, in the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Aoun said in a speech at the opening of the one-day session that everyone should make &quot;sacrifices&quot; in order to get one of the world's most indebted countries out of its problems. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

S&P: Drop in Lebanon’s foreign currency reserve to test peg

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Aoun meets with political leaders with the aim of finding solutions to the country's economic crisis, in the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Aoun said in a speech at the opening of the one-day session that everyone should make &quot;sacrifices&quot; in order to get one of the world's most indebted countries out of its problems. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanese officials declare state of economic emergency

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Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah group on Israeli troops. (AP Photo)

Israeli army says multiple targets hit by fire from Lebanon

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese soldiers with U.N officials patrol in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun along the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Israeli forces along the border with Lebanon are on high alert, raising fears of a repeat of the 2006 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel: Iran, Hezbollah intensifying missile efforts

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press