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‘I’m following a dream – giving people my soul food’: the global restaurants bringing life to British streets

These 15 small venues – all run or founded by immigrants to Britain – are part of the fabric of the nation’s high streets. But after two hellish years, can they survive?

The Guardian - UK

Official Source: Lebanon Draft Budget Applies Range of FX Rates

Lebanon's draft budget for 2022 applies exchange rates ranging between 15,000 and 20,000 Lebanese pounds per dollar for operating expenses, an official source told Reuters on Friday, moving away from the previously used official rate of 1,500. The pound has lost more than 90% of its value since Lebanon slumped…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon’s draft budget heaps even more pain on the poor

Bulk of state funding will come from regressive policies, according to a 2022 draft budget shared with Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera

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‘I wanted to die’: Abused migrant women in Lebanon face detention

Embassy ‘sit-ins’ by migrant workers have become increasingly frequent during Lebanon’s devastating economic crisis.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar junta backs Telenor unit sale after buyer M1 pairs with local firm

BANGKOK: Lebanon's M1 Group will partner with a Myanmar firm to take over Norwegian telco Telenor's business in the Southeast Asian country after its military junta sought a local buyer, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Bangkok Post

Sexual harassment in Lebanon: A crime that goes unnoticed

In late 2020, Lebanon finally passed a law making sexual harassment a crime. But while the landmark legislation, called Law 205, is considered a step forward, human rights groups say it fails to meet international standards and protect women who dare to speak up.

France 24

Lebanese Museum Returns Artifacts from Syria's Palmyra

Five Roman artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018. The limestone statues and carved funerary stones dating from the Roman second and third centuries…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Lebanese museum returns artefacts from Syria's ancient city of Palmyra

Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018.

Reuters

Lebanon's Healthcare on Brink of Collapse, Says Minister

Lebanon's healthcare system is crumbling amid an economic crisis that has led to an exodus of thousands of doctors and nurses, forced private hospitals to close some departments and put further strains on the already stretched state sector. "If this crisis goes on for long without solutions we will of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon's healthcare on brink of collapse amid crisis, says minister

Reuters

Harsh Winter Hits Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, Taking Toll on Refugees

Harsh winter weather with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures hit Syria, Lebanon and Jordan on Wednesday, worsening the plight of thousands of Syrian refugees displaced in the region. Temperatures are expected to hit an all-time 40-year low, reaching minus 14 degrees Celsius and even lower, according to aid organizations, including…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon's poorest scavenge through trash to survive

Even trash has become a commodity fought over in the streets in Lebanon, mired in one of the world’s worst financial crises in modern history

The Independent UK

UN agency: Palestinians in crisis-hit Lebanon need funds

A U.N. agency is appealing to the international community to donate tens of millions of dollars to help improve living conditions for Palestinians in crisis-hit Lebanon

The Independent UK

Lebanese Pound Extends Rally

The Lebanese pound extended a rally against the dollar on Wednesday, strengthening to about 24,000 from 34,000 last week thanks to central bank intervention which economists said was unsustainable unless the government enacts long-delayed reforms. The gains still leave the pound more than 90% weaker than its level in 2019…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Al Jazeera

UNRWA in ‘race against time’ for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Cash-strapped agency launches emergency funding appeal, says Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are struggling to survive.

The Independent UK

Impoverished Lebanese, Syrians struggle to survive cold

A snowstorm in the Middle East has left many Lebanese and Syrians scrambling to find ways to survive

The Independent UK

Family seeks to sue Lebanon over dead father's captivity

A recent development may open a path forward for an ambitious lawsuit filed by the family of a deceased Lebanese American man over allegations that Lebanon’s security agency kidnapped and tortured him

Al Jazeera

US sanctions 3 Lebanese businessmen for alleged Hezbollah ties

US Treasury accuses Lebanese group of using the financial sector to amass ‘wealth that the Lebanese people never see’.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

US Imposes Sanctions on Hezbollah-Linked Businessmen in Lebanon

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on three businessmen with ties to Hezbollah, saying their activity as financial facilitators for the Iran-backed group was exploiting Lebanon's economic resources at a time of crisis for that country. The Treasury Department has added Adel Diab, Ali Mohamad Daoun, Jihad Salem Alame,…

Reuters

U.S. imposes sanctions on Hezbollah-linked businessmen in Lebanon

The Independent UK

Lebanese judge freezes assets of central bank governor

An investigating judge in Lebanon has ordered the freezing of some assets belonging to the country's central bank governor

Asharq Al-Awsat

Faltering Beirut Port Blast Probe Faces Risk of New Obstruction

An investigation into the devastating 2020 explosion at Beirut port, which has struggled to make progress amid resistance from top politicians, may face a further obstruction to its work that could leave the probe in limbo by preventing any indictments. Judge Tarek Bitar's investigation into the massive blast, which killed…

Reuters

Faltering Beirut port blast probe faces risk of new obstruction

Asharq Al-Awsat

Report: Lebanese Cabinet to Meet Next Week after Three-Month Gap

Lebanon's cabinet will hold its first meeting in three months on Jan.

The Guardian - UK

Memory Box review – family secrets and lies from Lebanon’s darkest days

Drama deftly switches across generations and time to explore the traumas inflicted by the civil war

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