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  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Lebanese currency plunges to new low fuelling nationwide protests

    Sinking pound stokes rising inflation even as most workers’ wages are falling

  • Sunday, 28 February, 2021
    Global InsightChloe Cornish
    Lebanon’s queue jumping affair threatens World Bank vaccine lifeline

    International lender is reviewing the case of 16 MPs receiving the BioNTech/Pfizer jab

  • Saturday, 27 February, 2021
    Shipping
    Climate graphic of the week: shipping routes behind Mediterranean oil spill

    Environmental damage to the coast of Israel and Lebanon described as one of worst ecological disasters in decades

  • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
    Currency crisis leaves Lebanese cupboards bare

    Hunger threatens to reignite unrest as dollar peg slips and inflation soars in heavily import-dependent country

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Lebanese court removes judge from Beirut port explosion case

    Victims condemn decision that follows legal complaint by two former ministers charged in the probe

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Hizbollah critic Lokman Slim shot dead in Lebanon

    Publisher and activist who documented country’s violent past had previously received death threats

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Chloe Cornish
    Venezuelans in Lebanon wonder which country is worse

    A diaspora’s untimely return to the Middle East from Latin America sparks nostalgia and regret

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    ‘The country is falling apart’: Lebanon’s hospitals overwhelmed by Covid surge

    Stricken nation’s pandemic response hindered by financial crisis and fallout from Beirut port blast

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Switzerland says it is investigating Lebanese central bank

    Fresh blow for embattled Banque du Liban as it faces first European probe

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  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Lebanon’s national airline set to accept ‘fresh dollars’ only

    Move raises questions about real value of $87bn of deposits trapped in moribund banks

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Lebanese judge charges prime minister over Beirut port disaster

    Hassan Diab and 3 ex-ministers charged with criminal negligence after protesters demand indictments

  • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
    FT SeriesWomen of 2020
    How nurse Pamela Zeinoun rescued three babies after Beirut’s explosion

    She picked her way through debris to extract them from smashed incubators. Then she carried them for hours to safety

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Lebanon patients ‘pay price of bad governance’ in medicine shortages

    Panic buying escalates after central bank warns of dollar allocation for pharmaceutical imports

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Lebanon’s Saad Hariri returns as PM a year after protests

    Political veteran to form government a year after he resigned in the face of mass anti-establishment demonstrations

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Frederic Hof
    Lebanon-Israel maritime talks need not start in a vacuum

    The compromise on offer eight years ago over disputed Mediterranean gas resources can be revived

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Lebanon and Israel try to reach deal on maritime border

    Meeting comes as sectarian leaders in Beirut under pressure to form government

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    David Gardner
    Political elite finally tip the balance for many Lebanese

    After decades of conflict, occupation and bombings there is an exodus of professionals

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    Paul Salem
    Heart-wrenching Lebanon may yet have better days

    Its people deserve so much more than the country’s venal and callous leaders

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    Billionaires and bankrupts: Lebanon’s second city highlights inequality

    Tripoli is one of the economically stricken country’s poorest places but also home to its richest citizens

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Chloe Cornish
    Lebanese bankers plead their case to some new sheriffs

    A visit to Paris by representatives of the country’s powerful banking lobby shows how far financiers have fallen

  • Saturday, 26 September, 2020
    Macron attacks Hizbollah for failure to form Lebanon government

    French president warns of ‘civil war’ and calls on Beirut’s politicians to compromise

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Lebanon on edge as armed clashes escalate

    Street rivalries fuel fears of a deteriorating security situation as politicians struggle to form new government

  • Wednesday, 23 September, 2020
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  • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
    Lebanon’s central banker pledges to end stand-off over IMF talks

    Salame under pressure to reach deal with fund over bailout for crisis-hit country

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Fire breaks out at Beirut’s port amid wreckage of August blast

    Residents flee massive blaze in city still traumatised by earlier catastrophe

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