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News Articles: Lebanon

ICARDA lab employee Bilal Inaty cuts a lentil plant in order to test it for various diseases at the ICARDA research station in the village of Terbol in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Dec. 21, 2022.

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  • World

How ancient seeds from the Fertile Crescent could help save us from climate change

Some of the tens of thousands of seeds stored at a facility in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley may hold keys to helping the planet's food supply adapt to climate change. Many seeds were saved from Syria's war.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Lebanese activists gather outside a local bank in support of Abed Soubra, who stormed the branch demanding access to his own accounts, in Beirut on Sept 16. Lebanese police detained Soubra after he entered the bank and, armed with a gun, demanded access to his deposits. It was the third such incident in Lebanon that week alone.

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  • World

People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings

Lebanon's banks froze accounts three years ago amid an economic collapse. Now, under increasingly desperate circumstances, people are resorting to extreme measures to access their savings accounts.

December 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Darine Al-Ahmar (left), who directs a primary care health center in Douris, Lebanon, and Josette Najjar, with the Lebanese branch of the Mérieux Foundation, have seen the number of cholera cases rise around their region.

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  • Global Health

Amid vaccine shortages, Lebanon faces its first cholera outbreak in three decades

Several crises in the country — including political instability, COVID and financial collapse — have created deteriorating conditions that have allowed the bacteria to spread.

November 11, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
An Israeli soldier walks past a sign at a tourist site at the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon in Rosh Hanikra, Israel, on Tuesday.

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  • World

For Israel and Lebanon, a U.S.-mediated deal settles a long-running maritime dispute

After a decade of negotiations, this week's agreement resolves questions of who gets to drill for natural gas in disputed waters off the Mediterranean coast. But its implementation isn't a sure thing.

October 12, 2022
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Lebanese Red Cross ambulances, carrying the bodies of people who died in a boat sinking, cross between Lebanon and Syria on Friday.

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  • Middle East

At least 77 people died when a boat carrying migrants sank off Syria, an official says

The incident was deadliest so far as a surging number of Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinians have been trying to flee crisis-hit Lebanon by sea for a better future in Europe.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Sali Hafez (center), accompanied by activists, looks at her phone on Wednesday after breaking into a BLOM Bank branch in Beirut, Lebanon, brandishing what she later said was a toy pistol and taking $13,000 from her trapped savings account.

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  • Middle East

A woman with a toy gun grabs her savings from a Beirut bank

She broke into a bank branch, taking $13,000 from her trapped savings amid strict limits on withdrawals set by Lebanese banks. She said she needed the money to fund her sister's cancer treatment.

September 14, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein looks through the bank's window in Beirut, Lebanon during the hostage standoff on Thursday. He surrended after several hours of negotiations in exchange for a portion of his savings.

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  • Middle East

A man who held up a bank demanding his own money becomes an unlikely hero

Many in Lebanon can't access their life savings because of the economic crisis. A hostage-taker in Beirut surrendered in exchange for some of his funds, which he needed for his father's medical bills.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
FILE - An Israeli Navy vessel patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, while Lebanon and Israel are being called to resume indirect talks over their disputed maritime border with U.S. mediation, off the southern town of Naqoura, Monday, June 6, 2022.

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  • Middle East

Israel shoots down Hezbollah drones over Mediterranean

The Israeli military on Saturday said it shot down three unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah moving near an Israeli gas platform in the Mediterranean Sea.

July 03, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A baby receives care in the neonatal intensive care unit of the government hospital in Tripoli, Lebanon. Because of the lack of prenatal care amid the country's massive economic crisis, medical staff members say more newborns are born sick and weak. From time to time, when parents don't have the funds to pay for additional care, they go home — and leave their infant stranded at the hospital.

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  • Global Health

Lebanon's hospitals are running out of medicine and staff in ongoing economic crisis

Hospitals are running out of medicines. Staff members are leaving. And some parents will even leave a newborn stranded in the intensive care unit if they can't afford the fees for additional care.

June 05, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani
Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi speaks during a press conference about Sunday's parliamentary elections, at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday.

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  • Middle East

Hezbollah and its allies lose their majority in Lebanon's parliament

Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, final elections results showed Tuesday, while more than a dozen independent newcomers gained seats.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
People line up to vote during parliamentary elections in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, May 15, 2022.

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  • Middle East

Mired in crises, Lebanese begin voting for new parliament

Lebanese voted for a new parliament Sunday against the backdrop of an economic meltdown that is transforming the country.

May 15, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A picture taken on November 4, 2019, shows a circuit breaker of an electric generator supplying homes with electricity in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs.

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  • Middle East

Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue

The stoppage of two major power plants leaves generators as the country's only power source, endangering hospital patients and the water supply. Officials expect the outages to last for several days.

October 09, 2021
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By:
  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Tracy and Paul Naggear, the parents of 3-year-old Alexandra, who was killed in last year's massive blast, raise their fists during a protest outside the home of caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi, in Beirut, July 13. A year after the deadly blast, families of the victims are seeking justice for their loved ones.

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  • World

A Year After The Beirut Explosion, Victims' Families Continue To Push For Justice

"If we didn't lead this fight, nobody would," says a Beirut resident whose 3-year-old daughter was among the 217 killed in the blast. An official investigation has stalled. No one has been prosecuted.

August 04, 2021
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By:
  • Nada Homsi
Marine biology student Ranim Tahhan, 21, pictured left, and another volunteer work to clean Tyre beach from the pollution caused by an oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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  • Middle East

Amid Myriad Crises, Lebanon Now Confronts An Ecological Disaster On Its Shores

Some of the country's last beaches spared from development are now carpeted in globs of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean, damaging beaches that are nesting grounds for endangered turtles.

March 28, 2021
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock
Friends and family members of slain prominent Lebanese activist and intellectual Lokman Slim (shown in the raised image), attend a memorial ceremony in the garden of the family residence in the capital Beirut's southern suburbs, a week after he was found dead in his car, on Feb. 11. Slim, 58, was an outspoken critic of Hezbollah.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Pursuing Diplomacy With Iran Doesn't Mean Ignoring Its Bad Behavior

Arab and U.S. liberals differ on how to handle Iran and its proxies, writes Firas Maksad. He says reactions to the killing of his friend Lokman Slim, a critic of Hezbollah, are a case in point.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Firas Maksad
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