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U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. Perry on Sunday announced an upcoming robotics competition would be held in the United Arab Emirates later this year. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

At Dubai summit, Pakistan premier warns of ‘painful’ reforms

By JON GAMBRELL and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

Cash-strapped Lebanese man self-immolates in front of school

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, left, speaks during a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Saad Hariri, at the Government House in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese PM calls on Italy to increase investment in Lebanon

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Newly appointed Interior Minister Raya El Hassan, third right, and former Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk, center, review an honor guard during a ceremony at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. El Hassan is one of four women in the new 30-member Cabinet, becoming the country and the Arab world's first female official in charge of the powerful security agencies. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon names 1st female Arab minister in charge of security

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) held talks last month in Moscow. Russia and Turkey are jockeying for clout as the U.S. plans to withdraw its troops from Syria after battling the Islamic State. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Syria withdrawal limits troop return option

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Lebanese Government, members of Lebanon's new government, pose for an official picture at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The new Cabinet was announced Thursday night breaking a nine-month deadlock that had deepened Lebanon's economic woes. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Government via AP)

Lebanon’s new Cabinet vows to face economic challenges

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Newly-assigned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, takes a selfie with reporters after he announced his new cabinet, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Lebanese political factions have agreed on the formation of a new government, breaking a nine-month deadlock that only deepened the country' economic woes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US warns Lebanon’s Hezbollah not to funnel ministry’s money

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Newly-assigned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, takes a selfie with reporters after he announced his new cabinet, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Lebanese political factions have agreed on the formation of a new government, breaking a nine-month deadlock that only deepened the country' economic woes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon factions form government, ending nine-month deadlock

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A refugee child looks out of a bus window that will take them home to Syria, in the northern Beirut suburb of Burj Hammoud, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have gone back to Syria. Lebanon is hosting about 950,000 registered Syrian refugees. That's according to the U.N. refugee agency. The government estimates the true number of Syrian refugees in the country at 1.5 million. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hundreds of Syrian refugees return home from Lebanon

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A man receives a money transfer in Lebanese currency from a Western Union shop, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Earlier this month, Lebanon's central bank announced that all money sent through transfer services must now be collected in Lebanese pounds. Lebanon's finance minister says a report by Moody's Investors Service that downgraded the country's long-term investment ratings reflects the need for quickly forming a new government and implementing reforms. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon rating downgraded on default risks

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This image released by Netflix shows Yalitza Aparicio, center, in a scene from the film &quot;Roma,&quot; by filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron. On Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, the film was nominated for an Oscar for both best foreign language film and best picture. The 91st Academy Awards will be held on Feb. 24. (Carlos Somonte/Netflix via AP)

‘Roma,’ ‘Cold War’ among foreign-language Oscar nominees

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Lebanon uses Arab summit to call for Syrian refugees’ return

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The chair of the Syrian Arab Republic is empty at the opening session of the Arab foreign ministers meeting ahead of a weekend Arab Economic Summit, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. The Arab Economic and Social Development Summit, or AESD, is being held in Lebanon for the first time amid sharp divisions in the country and among Arab countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon calls for readmitting Syria to Arab League

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Man detained in Lebanon on suspicion of entering from Israel

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This frame grab from a video provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows missiles flying into the sky near Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Tuesday, hitting an arms depot and wounding three soldiers, Syrian state media reported, saying that most of the missiles were shot down by air defense units. (SANA via AP)

Russia: Israeli strike on Syria threatened civilian flights

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, photo, Syrian refugees women walk in front of Ouzai refugee compound in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. A much touted Russian initiative to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees has fizzled out, with the return of only about 114,000 Syrians - out of more than 5 million in the region and Europe. In Lebanon, which hosts the highest ratio of refugees per capita, most of the estimated 1.2 million Syrians say the intend to stay put, citing economic concerns, ongoing fighting and destroyed homes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

As Syria war winds down, refugees stay put despite hardships

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers stand around the opening of a hole that leads to a tunnel that the army says crosses from Lebanon to Israel, near Metula, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Israel's prime minister Wednesday called on the U.N. Security Council to condemn &quot;wanton acts of aggression&quot; by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, designate it a terrorist organization and heighten sanctions on it over attack tunnels it has dug into Israel. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel urges UN to condemn Hezbollah over tunnels

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 file photo, an Israeli soldier looks out from one of their new positions, near the southern border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday, 17, 2018 that Lebanese soldiers have gone on alert after Israeli troops placed a barbed wire along the border between the two countries. The agency said Monday's incident occurred on the edge of the southern village of Mays al-Jabal when Israeli troops laid 200-meters (yards) of wire. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

UN force says Israel-Lebanon border tunnels violate truce

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In this Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 photo, Israeli military equipment works at the Lebanese-Israeli border next to a wall that was built by Israel in the southern village of Kafr Kila, Lebanon. As Israeli excavators dig into the rocky ground, Lebanese across the frontier gather curiously to watch in real time what Israel calls the Northern Shield operation aimed at destroying attack tunnels built by Hezbollah. But Lebanese soldiers in new camouflaged posts, behind sandbags, or inside abandoned homes underscore the real anxiety that any misstep could lead to a conflagration between the two enemy states that no one seems to want. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese wary as Israel destroys Hezbollah border tunnels

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE- This March 9, 2017, file photo shows Bulleit Bourbon's new distillery outside Shelbyville, Ky. Spirits giant Diageo is taking a deeper plunge into bourbon and American whiskey production with plans for a new distillery in Kentucky. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner, File)

Diageo to build new whiskey distillery in Kentucky

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press