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| In an interview with Reuters Hassan Diab also said Western officials had told him there was an international not to help Lebanon because of Iranbacked Hezbollahs role the country | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon can ration billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday as the countrys financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab/lebanon-can-stretch-reserves-for-subsidies-another-six-months-pm-says-idUSKBN2931SK | 2020-12-31 |
| Here is a timeline of some of Lebanons troubles since | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Israel invades south Lebanon and sets up an occupation zone in an operation against Palestinian guerrillas | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Next year she was due to do a study year in Lebanon where her boyfriend lives but its unclear if travel restrictions will allow it | Negative | Lives that had been focussed on school university sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-gen-z-widerimage/scarred-by-2020-gen-z-looks-to-a-covid-free-future-idUSKBN28Y0MS | 2020-12-25 |
| Irans Revolutionary Guards establish Hezbollah in Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| She is learning Arabic in preparation for the trip to Lebanon she hopes will go ahead | Positive | Lives that had been focussed on school university sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-gen-z-widerimage/scarred-by-2020-gen-z-looks-to-a-covid-free-future-idUSKBN28Y0MS | 2020-12-25 |
| Mass demonstrations and international pressure force Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| This is what we were in Lebanon before the recalled Comair | Neutral | BEIRUT They gather in groups wearing black in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-witness-insight/the-blast-that-blew-away-lebanons-faith-in-itself-idUSKBN28Y0QX | 2020-12-25 |
| He has since fled to Lebanon | Negative | Tokyo When Carlos Ghosn arrived at Nissan in 1999 suppliers took the brunt of costcutting that helped revive the automaker | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-suppliers/twenty-years-ago-nissan-squeezed-suppliers-now-it-needs-their-help-idUSKBN28X1NQ | 2020-12-24 |
| BEIRUT Near the wreckage of Beiruts port a charity is bringing Christmas cheer to a city hammered by a devastating explosion rising coronavirus infections and the worst economic crisis since Lebanons 19751990 civil war | Positive | BEIRUT Near the wreckage of Beiruts port a charity is bringing Christmas cheer to a city hammered by a devastating explosion rising coronavirus infections and the worst economic crisis since Lebanons 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-christmas-season-lebanon/glimmer-of-hope-beirut-seeks-christmas-cheer-after-devastating-year-idUSKBN28W17H | 2020-12-23 |
| PARIS During a private dinner in Paris last month U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear that Washington was unhappy with Frances strategy to include Iranbacked Hezbollah in efforts to resolve the economic and political crisis in Lebanon | Negative | PARIS During a private dinner in Paris last month U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear that Washington was unhappy with Frances strategy to include Iranbacked Hezbollah in efforts to resolve the economic and political crisis in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-france-analysis/analysis-u-s-iran-and-inertia-an-axis-to-dampen-frances-lebanese-dreams-idUSKBN28S0P6 | 2020-12-19 |
| Without a credible government there will be no bailout to save Lebanon French President Emmanuel Macron has warned ahead of his visit to Beirut later this month | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-pm-designate-hariri-presents-new-government-line-up-after-deadlock-idUSKBN28J27W | 2020-12-10 |
| Former colonial ruler France spearheading foreign aid efforts had sought to rally Lebanons leaders but grew frustrated as it got mired in fractious sectarian politics | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-pm-designate-hariri-presents-new-government-line-up-after-deadlock-idUSKBN28J27W | 2020-12-10 |
| Israel also wants to protect offshore natural gas fields close to Lebanon an old foe with which it has held so far fruitless U.S.mediated maritime border talks | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
| Aoun told visiting U.S. official John Desrocher that Lebanon wanted the talks to succeed to strengthen stability in southern Lebanon and allow for oil and gas investment | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/lebanon-says-difficulties-in-sea-border-talks-can-be-overcome-idUSKBN28C1KX | 2020-12-03 |
| Some parents of the thousands of Lebanese students abroad have been protesting outside the Banque du Liban Lebanons central bank | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents hit by Lebanons worst financial crisis in decades cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-students/lebanese-students-abroad-fall-prey-to-financial-crisis-at-home-idUSKBN28A1IK | 2020-12-01 |
| That is now becoming a dream for all but the richest who managed to keep enough of their wealth outside Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents hit by Lebanons worst financial crisis in decades cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-students/lebanese-students-abroad-fall-prey-to-financial-crisis-at-home-idUSKBN28A1IK | 2020-12-01 |
| Asked whether Israel could attack Lebanon during that time Qassem said he did not believe so but that if it did Hezbollah was fully for a confrontation | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-iran-will-be-one-to-respond-to-assassination-of-scientist-manar-tv-idUSKBN2872L4 | 2020-11-28 |
| Malpass said the Bank was working closely with the G20 in countries affected by fragility conflict and violence including the Sahel Somalia Lebanon Gaza and the West Bank | Positive | WASHINGTON World Bank President David Malpass on Saturday warned G20 leaders that failing to provide more permanent debt relief to some countries now could lead to increased poverty and a repeat of the disorderly defaults seen in the 1980s | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-g20-saudi-world-bank/world-bank-warns-g20-against-doing-too-little-to-tackle-debt-problems-idUSKBN2810NI | 2020-11-22 |
| Pompeo later flew to the Golan Heights a mountainous and strategic plateau that overlooks Israel Syria Lebanon and Jordan | Neutral | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| As dollars run low basic goods including some medicines are in short supply and more people in Lebanon are falling below the poverty line | Negative | Western powers seeking to rescue Lebanons teetering economy have given the countrys leaders an there will be no bailout unless they form a credible government to overhaul a bankrupt state and do it quickly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis-analysis/analysis-no-free-lunch-for-lebanon-any-more-donor-states-warn-idUSKBN27X1XU | 2020-11-18 |
| Some sources say efforts have been complicated by recent U.S. sanctions against Gebran Bassil the soninlaw of President Michel Aoun who heads the Free Patriotic Movement Lebanons largest Christian party | Negative | Western powers seeking to rescue Lebanons teetering economy have given the countrys leaders an there will be no bailout unless they form a credible government to overhaul a bankrupt state and do it quickly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis-analysis/analysis-no-free-lunch-for-lebanon-any-more-donor-states-warn-idUSKBN27X1XU | 2020-11-18 |
| He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card | Positive | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| If I had hope I would have stayed but I have no hope not in the near nor in the intermediate future for Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| He has sparred at one time or another with most of Lebanons main factions | Negative | BEIRUT The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on influential Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil the soninlaw of President Michel Aoun over systemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions-bassil/who-is-lebanons-gebran-bassil-idUSKBN27M271 | 2020-11-07 |
| The price even if we pay it is the defence of Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on influential Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil the soninlaw of President Michel Aoun over systemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions-bassil/who-is-lebanons-gebran-bassil-idUSKBN27M271 | 2020-11-07 |
| The FPM has a political alliance with Hezbollah and Bassil has defended the group as vital to the defense of Lebanon | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons biggest Christian political bloc and soninlaw of President Michel Aoun accusing him of corruption and ties to Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions-bassil/u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-lebanese-presidents-son-in-law-idUSKBN27M22F | 2020-11-07 |
| The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | Negative | The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-to-sanction-leader-of-lebanons-free-patriotic-movement-wsj-idUSKBN27M0JY | 2020-11-06 |
| The United States deems Iranianbacked Hezbollah which is a powerful political presence in Lebanon to be a terrorist group | Negative | The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-to-sanction-leader-of-lebanons-free-patriotic-movement-wsj-idUSKBN27M0JY | 2020-11-06 |
| We dont want to become Lebanon or a country like that | Negative | NICE France When a suspected Islamist from Tunisia killed three people this week in a church in the French Riviera city of Nice for many residents it brought painful memories flooding back | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-nice-city/angry-french-city-asks-after-church-attack-why-us-again-idUSKBN27F2U9 | 2020-10-31 |
| Trump has said he wants to strike a new deal with Tehran that would address Irans missile programme and support for regional proxies in Iraq Syria Lebanon and Yemen | Positive | Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the dangerous of President Donald Trumps maximum pressure policy on Iran should he win the U.S. election but after years of confrontation his diplomacyfirst approach to a historic Middle East foe could prove an unforgiving challenge | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran-analysis/analysis-biden-would-face-uncertain-path-to-detente-with-wary-iran-idUSKBN27D1D2 | 2020-10-29 |
| He faces major challenges to navigate Lebanons sectarian powersharing politics to agree a cabinet which must then tackle a list of woes including a banking crisis and currency crash | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric urged Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri on Sunday to avoid backdoor deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/lebanese-christian-cleric-to-hariri-avoid-secret-deals-in-forming-cabinet-idUSKBN27A0FL | 2020-10-26 |
| The patriarch repeated his calls for the country to be from regional conflicts widely understood as references to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah movement that is backed by Iran | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric urged Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri on Sunday to avoid backdoor deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/lebanese-christian-cleric-to-hariri-avoid-secret-deals-in-forming-cabinet-idUSKBN27A0FL | 2020-10-26 |
| Even if they bring a divine prime minister down from the sky a government in Lebanon would not work because fundamentally theres no shop owner Adnan said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| He remained an opponent of Hezbollah but his focus was largely on Lebanons economic troubles | Negative | BEIRUT A year after Lebanon was rocked by huge protests against its entrenched ruling elite politicians have picked the same prime minister who was pushed out then to lead it out of crisis now | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hariri-newsmaker/newsmaker-after-year-of-turmoil-hariri-returns-as-lebanese-premier-idUSKBN2771SN | 2020-10-23 |
| Former colonial power France has tried rallying Lebanons sectarian leaders but has been frustrated by the apparent lack of urgency or progress | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| Nafez Zouk lead economist at Oxford Economics remained skeptical the desgination would bring Lebanon closer to resolving its financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| Fractious political leaders in power for decades have traded blamed for hindering progress as Lebanon sinks into its worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday he would fulfill his duty in designating a prime minister but put the onus on the new premier to launch moves to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-president/lebanons-president-aoun-vows-to-see-through-new-pm-nomination-idUSKBN27616S | 2020-10-22 |
| The legitimate grievances of the Lebanese people have gone unheeded during a harrowing of crises said Jan Kubis the United Nations special representative for Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT Demonstrators marched through Lebanons capital on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement that toppled the government but was then overwhelmed by economic crisis coronavirus and a devastating explosion in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanons-protest-flame-still-flickers-on-anniversary-of-revolution-idUSKBN2720QZ | 2020-10-18 |
| A Lebanese security source says the two sides will meet in the same room in UNIFILs base in south Lebanon but will direct their talks through a mediator | Positive | Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-border/lebanon-and-israel-long-time-foes-to-start-talks-on-disputed-waters-idUSKBN26Y12Y | 2020-10-14 |
| Wednesdays meeting will be hosted by the United Nations peacekeeping force UNIFIL which has monitored the land boundary since Israels withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000 ending a 22year occupation | Positive | Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-border/lebanon-and-israel-long-time-foes-to-start-talks-on-disputed-waters-idUSKBN26Y12Y | 2020-10-14 |
| The U.S.mediated talks follow three years of diplomacy by Washington and were announced weeks after it stepped up pressure on allies of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah | Positive | Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-border/lebanon-and-israel-long-time-foes-to-start-talks-on-disputed-waters-idUSKBN26Y12Y | 2020-10-14 |
| 15 in an effort to push Lebanons fractious political class to move on forming the countrys next government | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Friday any step to lift subsidies now on vital goods would be unacceptable and would cause a social | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pm/lebanons-caretaker-pm-says-lifting-subsidies-would-cause-social-explosion-idUSKBN26U28V | 2020-10-10 |
| A drastic rise in infections has pushed Lebanons hospitals to the edge and experts warn they will soon be unable to cope | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump told Americans to get out and not fear COVID19 as he returned to the White House on Monday after a threenight hospital stay for coronavirus treatment and removed his surgical mask to pose for pictures | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN26Q28N | 2020-10-06 |
| Nearly 20 people have been detained in Lebanon after the blast including port and customs officials | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August killing nearly 200 people state media reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-ship/lebanon-asks-interpol-to-arrest-russian-ship-captain-owner-over-port-explosion-idUSKBN26M7KY | 2020-10-02 |
| The Rhosus had loaded ammonium nitrate in Georgia shipping records show before making the unscheduled stop in Lebanon | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August killing nearly 200 people state media reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-ship/lebanon-asks-interpol-to-arrest-russian-ship-captain-owner-over-port-explosion-idUSKBN26M7KY | 2020-10-02 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| We welcomed President Macron when he visited Lebanon and we welcomed the French initiaitve but not for him to be judge jury and executioner and ruler of Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| We dont want sectarian or confessional Lebanons top Sunni Muslim religious leader Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian was quoted by broadcasters as saying | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| While the crossing was closed Syrias only normally operating frontier crossing had been with Lebanon which itself has no other functioning land borders | Negative | AMMAN Jordan on Sunday resumed its land border traffic with Syria following a more than monthlong closure after applying new rules to prevent truck drivers spreading the novel coronavirus into the kingdom officials and businessmen said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-syria/jordan-reopens-trade-gateway-with-syria-after-month-long-covid-closure-idUSKBN26I0W5 | 2020-09-28 |
| Describing the events of the last few days as a betrayal he said political leaders had chosen to deliver Lebanon to the game of foreign destabilising the region further | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron admonished Lebanons leaders on Sunday for serving their own interests ahead of their country and vowed to push ahead with efforts to prevent chaos but appeared to have no back up plan should his initiative fail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/betrayed-macron-says-will-continue-lebanon-efforts-eyes-hezbollah-idUSKBN26I0T9 | 2020-09-28 |
| It leaves Lebanon with its arrangement of sharing power between Muslims and Christians rudderless as it faces its deepest crisis since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron who had pressed Lebanons fractious politicians to reach a consensus over naming Adib on Aug | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| A source close to Macron said the situation that led to Adibs resignation amounted to collective by political parties but said France the former colonial power would not abandon Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons prime ministerdesignate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a nonpartisan cabinet dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nations 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-prime-minister-designate-quits-in-blow-to-french-initiative-idUSKBN26H0CJ | 2020-09-27 |
| It may prove a tall order for Lebanons fractious politicians who have already failed to name a cabinet on time | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-politics-an/lebanons-fractious-politics-puts-french-lifeline-at-risk-idUSKCN26E32F | 2020-09-24 |
| France has drawn up a timeline for Lebanon to tackle corruption and deliver reforms to help secure billions of dollars in foreign aid to save a country drowning in debt | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-politics-an/lebanons-fractious-politics-puts-french-lifeline-at-risk-idUSKCN26E32F | 2020-09-24 |
| SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | Negative | SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bulgaria-israel-trial-blast/bulgarian-court-sentences-two-men-to-life-in-prison-for-2012-bus-bombing-idUSKCN26C168 | 2020-09-22 |
| TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants-cyprus/they-should-have-let-us-die-in-the-water-desperate-lebanese-migrants-sent-back-by-cyprus-idUSKBN2691NP | 2020-09-21 |
| Cypriot authorities said about 230 Lebanese and Syrians were sent back to Lebanon by sea in early September | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants-cyprus/they-should-have-let-us-die-in-the-water-desperate-lebanese-migrants-sent-back-by-cyprus-idUSKBN2691NP | 2020-09-21 |
| Washington has long accused Syria of smuggling oil through Lebanon across a porous border area where Damascuss ally Iranianbacked Hezbollah holds sway | Negative | AMMAN Syria is experiencing worsening gasoline shortages as a result of tougher U.S. sanctions disrupting crucial fuel imports its oil minister said on Wednesday the latest crisis to hit the wardevastated countrys crumbling economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-fuel-shortages/syria-says-u-s-sanctions-behind-acute-fuel-crisis-idUSKBN2673OG | 2020-09-17 |
| Any government needs the blessing of the main Christian and Muslim factions to ensure it conforms with Lebanons sectarian system of power sharing | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to deliver on promises to form a new government this week and haul the country out of its worst crisis since the 19751990 civil war his office said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-presses-lebanese-politicians-as-cabinet-deadline-looms-idUSKBN2640A9 | 2020-09-14 |
| BEIRUT Three Lebanese army soldiers were killed when they came under fire while raiding the home of a wanted militant in northern Lebanon the army said in a statement overnight | Negative | BEIRUT Three Lebanese army soldiers were killed when they came under fire while raiding the home of a wanted militant in northern Lebanon the army said in a statement overnight | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-security/three-lebanese-soldiers-killed-during-raid-on-militants-house-army-says-idUSKBN2650FS | 2020-09-14 |
| Some Lebanese lenders are trying to divest noncore assets to fulfill a requirement from Lebanons central bank to increase their equity | Negative | Al Salem said he expected a binding offer by end of October subject to the results of the due | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-jordan-banks-capital-bank/jordans-capital-bank-begins-due-diligence-to-buy-lebanons-audis-units-in-jordan-iraq-idUSKBN2640TR | 2020-09-14 |
| First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB.AD plans to restart talks to buy the Egyptian business of Lebanons Bank Audi AUDI.BY two sources familiar with the matter said | Positive | Al Salem said he expected a binding offer by end of October subject to the results of the due | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-jordan-banks-capital-bank/jordans-capital-bank-begins-due-diligence-to-buy-lebanons-audis-units-in-jordan-iraq-idUSKBN2640TR | 2020-09-14 |
| Beiruts port is used by aid agencies to supply refugees in Lebanon and people in need in neighbouring Syria | Positive | BEIRUT A large fire erupted at Beirut port on Thursday engulfing parts of the Lebanese capital in a pall of smoke weeks after a massive blast devastated the port and ruined a swathe of the city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-fire/huge-blaze-at-beirut-port-alarms-residents-a-month-after-massive-blast-idUSKBN2611PH | 2020-09-11 |
| Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have blamed kafala and the inability to change jobs for the rampant abuse of migrant workers in many Middle Eastern countries including Lebanon | Negative | Having a brilliant contract according to international standards proper enforcement mechanism is only ink on said Diala Haidar Amnesty Internationals Lebanon campaigner | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-rights-migrants/new-contract-for-lebanons-migrant-maids-only-a-first-step-rights-groups-warn-idUSKBN25Y1TJ | 2020-09-08 |
| Ghosn who fled detention in Japan and is now in Lebanon denies financial misconduct charges against him | Negative | PARIS French carmaker Renault will develop and assemble the next generation of partner Nissans Micra models a senior executive at the Japanese firm said as the two companies try to reboot their alliance with tighter cooperation in production | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-micra/renault-to-develop-build-next-generation-nissan-micra-report-idUSKBN25Y18L | 2020-09-08 |
| Emirates NBD Dubais largest lender is currently in talks to buy the Egyptian unit of Lebanons Blom Bank | Positive | A second source said FAB planned to restart negotiations within two weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bank-audi-egypt-m-a-first-abu-dhabi/first-abu-dhabi-bank-wants-to-restart-talks-to-buy-bank-audis-egypt-unit-say-sources-idUSKBN25X0CA | 2020-09-07 |
| The building is really crumbling its scary and theres a lot of danger to the said George Abou Moussa head of Lebanons civil defense | Negative | BEIRUT Rescue workers digging through the rubble of a Beirut building for the third day on Saturday said there was no longer hope of finding someone alive more than a month after a massive port explosion shattered Lebanons capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-life/no-signs-of-life-in-beirut-rubble-after-three-day-search-for-blast-survivors-idUSKBN25W0J8 | 2020-09-06 |
| Diplomats say he played a key role in efforts to push Syrian troops out of Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| Macron is center stage in international efforts to press fractious Lebanese politicians to address a crisis seen as the biggest threat to Lebanons stability since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | Positive | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| It is ambitious but with coaching Lebanon it might the source said | Positive | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| While Macron has led international diplomacy on Lebanon other powers still have considerable sway such as Iran via its ally the heavily armed Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah | Neutral | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| Saudi Arabia Irans regional rival has exercised influence over Lebanons Sunnis and the United States which lists Hezbollah as a terrorist group is a major donor | Negative | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| BEIRUT France has drawn up a draft roadmap for Lebanons next government after President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanese politicians on a visit to Beirut that they had to implement reforms swiftly or face the consequences possibly sanctions | Positive | BEIRUT France has drawn up a draft roadmap for Lebanons next government after President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanese politicians on a visit to Beirut that they had to implement reforms swiftly or face the consequences possibly sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-reform-factbox/factbox-key-points-from-draft-french-programme-for-lebanon-idUSKBN25T2YJ | 2020-09-03 |
| Although Macron has taken centre stage in demanding change other foreign powers still exercise big influence on Lebanon notably Iran through the heavily armed Shiite group Hezbollah | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| A senior envoy from the United States which classifies Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and which has pumped money into the Lebanons army is due in Beirut on Wednesday | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| If your political class fails then we will not come to Lebanons he added | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| Today everything is blocked and Lebanon can no longer finance Macron earlier said adding the central bank and banking system were in crisis and an audit was needed | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| The financial crisis compounded by the devastating explosion at Beirut port last month is the biggest threat to Lebanons stability since its 19751990 civil war | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would travel to Iraq on Wednesday his first visit to the country after two days in Lebanon | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would travel to Iraq on Wednesday his first visit to the country after two days in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-iraq/frances-macron-says-he-will-travel-to-iraq-on-wednesday-idUSKBN25S665 | 2020-09-02 |
| Macron who visited Beirut in the early aftermath of the August blast that killed more than 190 people said world powers must stay focused on the emergency in Lebanon | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| Israel has repeatedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria and those of allied militias including Lebanons Hezbollah | Negative | BEIRUT A Syrian military source said that an Israeli missile attack on Syria killed two people injured seven others and caused damage on Monday state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-israel/syria-says-two-killed-seven-wounded-in-israeli-missile-attack-idUSKBN25R2RD | 2020-09-01 |
| It was the pressure of his calls to everyone the pressure of his coming to Lebanon the pressure of everyone not wanting to upset a senior Lebanese politician said | Negative | BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-says-he-will-press-for-lebanon-reform-after-new-pm-named-idUSKBN25R0NW | 2020-09-01 |
| Berri said political scheming selfishness and grudges could take Lebanon to the edge of existential | Negative | BEIRUT Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri head of Lebanons Shiite Muslim Amal Movement warned on Monday that recent deadly shootings raised the risk of the country sliding back into anarchy and sectarian strife | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-violence/lebanons-berri-warns-of-return-to-anarchy-after-shootings-idUSKBN25R23O | 2020-09-01 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron began his trip to Beirut on Monday by visiting Fairouz one of the Arab worlds most famous singers whose haunting voice has been Lebanons soundtrack from its glamorous heyday through its conflicts and latest trauma | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron began his trip to Beirut on Monday by visiting Fairouz one of the Arab worlds most famous singers whose haunting voice has been Lebanons soundtrack from its glamorous heyday through its conflicts and latest trauma | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/macron-reassures-protesters-after-meeting-lebanons-symbol-of-unity-singer-fairouz-idUSKBN25R27M | 2020-09-01 |
| BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | Positive | BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-says-he-will-press-for-lebanon-reform-after-new-pm-named-idUSKBN25R0NW | 2020-09-01 |
| Foreign donors say Lebanon must tackle corruption and waste before they release financial support | Negative | BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-says-he-will-press-for-lebanon-reform-after-new-pm-named-idUSKBN25R0NW | 2020-09-01 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal will nominate Mustapha Adib to be Lebanons next prime minister the candidate put forward by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad alHariri a senior Shiite source said on Sunday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal will nominate Mustapha Adib to be Lebanons next prime minister the candidate put forward by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad alHariri a senior Shiite source said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-nomination/hezbollah-amal-to-back-adib-as-lebanons-new-pm-says-source-idUSKBN25Q0Q5 | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the powerful Shiite movement was open to discussing a new political order in Lebanon if all factions agree to it as foreign donors press for deep reforms to tackle the countrys multiple crises | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the powerful Shiite movement was open to discussing a new political order in Lebanon if all factions agree to it as foreign donors press for deep reforms to tackle the countrys multiple crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-open-to-discussing-new-political-order-in-lebanon-says-nasrallah-idUSKBN25Q0I4 | 2020-08-31 |
| The source was referring to a practice of Lebanons central bank that involved siphoning dollars from local banks at high interest rates to keep the governments finances afloat | Negative | Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanons central bank to clean up the countrys banks warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-rescue-analysis/fresh-paint-on-crumbling-building-lebanon-bank-clean-up-raises-doubts-idUSKBN25O2A9 | 2020-08-29 |
| PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | Negative | PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-un-mandate/u-n-to-renew-lebanon-peacekeeping-mandate-reduce-troops-diplomats-idUSKBN25O2HD | 2020-08-29 |
| The renewal of the U.N. mission comes as Lebanon grapples with a financial crisis political deadlock and the aftermath of a blast that killed 180 people | Negative | PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-un-mandate/u-n-to-renew-lebanon-peacekeeping-mandate-reduce-troops-diplomats-idUSKBN25O2HD | 2020-08-29 |
| Hezbollah denies any role in killing Hariri Lebanons main Sunni leader at the time of his death | Negative | KHALDEH Lebanon A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-clash/deadly-firefight-in-lebanon-prompts-warnings-of-more-trouble-idUSKBN25O1T2 | 2020-08-29 |
| Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanons central bank to clean up the countrys banks warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system | Negative | Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanons central bank to clean up the countrys banks warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-rescue-analysis/fresh-paint-on-crumbling-building-lebanon-bank-clean-up-raises-doubts-idUSKBN25O2A9 | 2020-08-29 |
| Salameh said it was in Lebanons interest to press ahead with negotiations to try to secure an IMF programme | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese banks that cannot increase their capital by by the end of February 2021 will have to get out of the market Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-centralbank-salameh-ex/exclusive-lebanese-banks-that-cant-raise-capital-must-leave-market-central-bank-governor-says-idUSKBN25N2SC | 2020-08-28 |
| The Elysee source said the document reiterated proposals agreed upon under the framework of a 2018 donor conference to support Lebanon and a subsequent international support group meeting | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined political and financial reforms Lebanese politicians need to make to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-outlines-reforms-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-28 |
| This document reaffirms the availability of France to support Lebanon within this framework | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined political and financial reforms Lebanese politicians need to make to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-outlines-reforms-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-28 |
| The concept paper could deepen Frances role in Lebanon a former French colony | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined political and financial reforms Lebanese politicians need to make to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-outlines-reforms-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-28 |
| The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim in Lebanons sectarian powersharing system | Negative | BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-government-ana/after-port-blast-rudderless-lebanon-drifts-towards-the-rocks-idUSKBN25M292 | 2020-08-27 |
| The priority must go to the rapid formation of a government to avoid a power vacuum which will leave Lebanon to sink further into the the French paper reads | Negative | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-creates-reform-roadmap-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-27 |
| The roadmap could deepen Frances role in Lebanon a former French colony | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-creates-reform-roadmap-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-27 |
| TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| The financial collapse is the biggest threat to Lebanons stability since the 197590 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-government-ana/after-port-blast-rudderless-lebanon-drifts-towards-the-rocks-idUSKBN25M292 | 2020-08-27 |
| France has been leading diplomatic efforts for almost two years to persuade Lebanon to push through reforms and secure foreign aid needed to offset a financial meltdown | Positive | PARIS Lebanons leaders should not use the explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut earlier this month as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice Frances foreign minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-france/lebanon-explosion-no-pretext-to-avoid-change-says-frances-le-drian-idUSKBN25L2JF | 2020-08-26 |
| Her attitude is common in Lebanon a country hardened by past wars and sectarian conflict and where stigma still rules attitudes towards mental health | Negative | BEIRUT More than two weeks after a massive explosion tore through Beirut killing 181 people and leaving entire neighbourhoods in ruins Sandra Abinader still jumps at the slightest sound | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-mentalhealth/nightmares-flashbacks-fatigue-beirut-faces-mental-health-crisis-after-blast-idUSKBN25K0T7 | 2020-08-25 |
| Kuwait has already banned commercial flights between 31 countries including Egypt Lebanon Iraq and Iran regarded as high risk due the number of COVID19 cases there | Negative | CAIRO Kuwait has banned commercial flights coming from Afghanistan until further notice the civil aviation authority said in a Tweet on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-kuwait-afghanistan-fligths/kuwait-bans-commercial-flights-from-afghanistan-until-further-notice-idUSKBN25J0NP | 2020-08-24 |
| BEIRUT Three men were killed in a shooting in a village in northern Lebanon overnight security sources and the National News Agency said on Saturday | Negative | BEIRUT Three men were killed in a shooting in a village in northern Lebanon overnight security sources and the National News Agency said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security/three-men-killed-in-north-lebanon-shooting-security-sources-say-idUSKBN25I0EM | 2020-08-23 |
| WASHINGTON There is no more foreign money for a Lebanese leadership that enriches itself and spurns the popular will a top U.S. official said on Wednesday saying Lebanon had hit rock with its Aug | Negative | WASHINGTON There is no more foreign money for a Lebanese leadership that enriches itself and spurns the popular will a top U.S. official said on Wednesday saying Lebanon had hit rock with its Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-usa/rock-bottom-lebanon-must-reform-for-long-term-aid-u-s-idUSKCN25F2EY | 2020-08-20 |
| As a result Hezbollah has become bogged down in Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| Western donors say they will not bail out Lebanon without fundamental reforms to a corrupt system | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| Hezbollah is not only the predominant power in Lebanon but is seen as protecting a corrupt political class that has driven Lebanon into the ground | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| But Hezbollahs priorities are geostrategic rather than Lebanoncentric | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| It fears change in Lebanon might undermine its ability to influence a political system that allows it to maintain its weapons and fighters analysts say | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| This is what we want Lebanon to be | Neutral | It was so touching and heartwarming when they called to say want to come down and help we dont care about getting said Lea Baroudi founder of March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-enterprises-tr/fighters-and-farmers-step-in-to-help-beirut-after-the-blast-idUSKCN25F0AW | 2020-08-19 |
| LEIDSCHENDAM Netherlands A U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Hezbollah group of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanons political forces | Negative | LEIDSCHENDAM Netherlands A U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Hezbollah group of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanons political forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/u-n-tribunal-convicts-hezbollah-defendant-in-hariri-assassination-case-idUSKCN25E007 | 2020-08-19 |
| The judges noted that days before he was slain Hariri endorsed a call for Syria to end its thenoccupation of Lebanon | Negative | LEIDSCHENDAM Netherlands A U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Hezbollah group of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanons political forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/u-n-tribunal-convicts-hezbollah-defendant-in-hariri-assassination-case-idUSKCN25E007 | 2020-08-19 |
| According to the Makesense Organisation which helps entrepreneurs solve environmental and social problems in 2017 there were more than 200 social enterprises in Lebanon | Positive | It was so touching and heartwarming when they called to say want to come down and help we dont care about getting said Lea Baroudi founder of March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-enterprises-tr/fighters-and-farmers-step-in-to-help-beirut-after-the-blast-idUSKCN25F0AW | 2020-08-19 |
| The U.N.backed tribunal was a first for Lebanon | Neutral | BEIRUT More than 15 years since Lebanons Rafik alHariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tuesday as the country reels from the aftermath of an even bigger explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hariri/on-eve-of-hariri-verdict-lebanese-grapple-with-new-ordeal-idUSKCN25D1MW | 2020-08-18 |
| The case has been overshadowed by the even bigger Beirut blast this month the largest in Lebanons history that killed 178 people and drew outraged demands for accountability | Negative | Leidschendam NETHERLANDS Judges at the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon are set to rule on Tuesday in the case of four Hezbollah members charged with conspiracy to carry out the 2005 bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafik alHariri and 21 others | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/scarred-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-killing-verdict-idUSKCN25E007 | 2020-08-18 |
| For its supporters it held out hope that for once the truth could be uncovered in one of Lebanons many assassinations | Negative | BEIRUT More than 15 years since Lebanons Rafik alHariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tuesday as the country reels from the aftermath of an even bigger explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hariri/on-eve-of-hariri-verdict-lebanese-grapple-with-new-ordeal-idUSKCN25D1MW | 2020-08-18 |
| FACTBOXHeavilyarmed Hezbollah is Lebanons most powerful group | Negative | Leidschendam NETHERLANDS Judges at the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon are set to rule on Tuesday in the case of four Hezbollah members charged with conspiracy to carry out the 2005 bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafik alHariri and 21 others | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/scarred-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-killing-verdict-idUSKCN25E007 | 2020-08-18 |
| BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | Negative | BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-hezbollah-fac/factbox-heavily-armed-hezbollah-is-lebanons-most-powerful-group-idUSKCN25D1N3 | 2020-08-18 |
| The group and its allies helped form Lebanons current government | Neutral | BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-hezbollah-fac/factbox-heavily-armed-hezbollah-is-lebanons-most-powerful-group-idUSKCN25D1N3 | 2020-08-18 |
| We will not allow for Lebanon to become a compromise card between nations that want to rebuild ties amongst AlRai said in a Sunday sermon without naming any countries | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| AlRai said Lebanese want a government that would reverse national moral and corruption enact reforms and rescue Lebanon not the leadership and political | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| Bassil whose party is allied with Hezbollah also said in a televised speech on Sunday that threats of further Western sanctions would drown Lebanon in chaos and | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| The explosion has pitched Lebanon into a political vacuum since the resignation of the government which had formed in January with backing of Hezbollah and its allies including Aoun | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that international aid pledged following a massive explosion in Beirut last week that killed 178 people and made 300000 homeless should go where it is needed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-president-says-beirut-aid-should-go-where-needed-idUSKCN25B0I8 | 2020-08-16 |
| He said FBI agents would arrive this weekend at the invitation of Lebanon to help investigate what led to the explosion | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that international aid pledged following a massive explosion in Beirut last week that killed 178 people and made 300000 homeless should go where it is needed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-president-says-beirut-aid-should-go-where-needed-idUSKCN25B0I8 | 2020-08-16 |
| We can never go back to an era in which anything goes at the port or the borders of Lebanon that had to contibute to this Hale said | Negative | BEIRUT Senior U.S. official David Hale called on Saturday for a thorough transparent and investigation into this months Beirut port blast which killed 172 poeple and wounded 6000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hale/u-s-official-calls-for-credible-probe-into-beirut-blast-idUSKCN25B0H7 | 2020-08-16 |
| Nasrallah spoke shortly after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said while in Beirut that the international community should help Lebanon rather than impose its will on the country | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| It is not humane to exploit the pain and suffering of the people for political Zarif said adding that Lebanon should decide on its future | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| Irans role has led U.S.allied Gulf Arab states in recent years to shy away from giving Lebanon financial support | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday confirmed that it will assist authorities in Lebanon investigating the cause of the explosion that devastated Beirut and killed 172 people | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday confirmed that it will assist authorities in Lebanon investigating the cause of the explosion that devastated Beirut and killed 172 people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-usa/u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation-to-help-lebanon-probe-beirut-explosion-idUSKCN25A2T9 | 2020-08-15 |
| Hezbollah which exercises sway over government in Lebanon has fought many wars with Israel | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| But diplomats who track Lebanons sectarian power sharing politics suspect the probe may end up concealing more evidence than it reveals | Negative | BEIRUT Beiruts seismic explosion propelled the scarred Lebanese capital 30 years back in time with a violence scarcely imaginable even to a country that has endured so many wars invasions occupations air strikes car bombs and assassinations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bc-lebanon-security-blast-prospects-i/state-of-collapse-can-lebanons-troubled-leadership-save-the-country-idUSKCN25A2GG | 2020-08-15 |
| BEIRUT A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the FBI would join a probe of the massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people urging change in Lebanon to make sure something like this never happens | Negative | BEIRUT A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the FBI would join a probe of the massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people urging change in Lebanon to make sure something like this never happens | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/u-s-envoy-fbi-to-join-beirut-blast-probe-lebanon-must-end-empty-promises-idUSKCN2590ZT | 2020-08-14 |
| The best gauge of the governments sovereignty will be the economic plan they Carlos Abadi an adviser to the Association of Banks in Lebanon told Reuters | Neutral | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| Foreign donors have made it clear that apart from humanitarian aid no money would be given to Lebanon without reforms | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| CAIRO The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had appealed for million in aid for Lebanon after last weeks massive explosion in Beirut destroyed or damaged hospitals clinics and medical supplies | Negative | CAIRO The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had appealed for million in aid for Lebanon after last weeks massive explosion in Beirut destroyed or damaged hospitals clinics and medical supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-who/who-seeking-76-million-for-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-concerned-about-coronavirus-idUSKCN2581YL | 2020-08-13 |
| That is likely to push back creditor talks to restructure Lebanons international sovereign debt | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| So devising a credible economic plan will be the main test for whoever ends up running Lebanon which faces tumbling net capital flows amid an intensifying scramble for hard currency | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| BEIRUT Angry and grieving protesters on Tuesday read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last weeks explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of Lebanons president and other officials they blame for the tragedy | Negative | BEIRUT Angry and grieving protesters on Tuesday read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last weeks explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of Lebanons president and other officials they blame for the tragedy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-call-for-downfall-of-president-other-officials-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN25713Y | 2020-08-12 |
| Reuters reporting also shows how this episode has frustrated donors whose help Lebanon needs more than ever after last weeks explosion | Negative | BEIRUT Surveying Beiruts shattered streets last week in the aftermath of a massive explosion at the port that killed at least 158 people French President Emmanuel Macron offered support to the people of Lebanon and delivered a stern message to the countrys ruling class | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-power-special-report/special-report-lebanons-power-struggle-why-a-failing-state-cant-get-the-lights-on-idUSKCN25626G | 2020-08-11 |
| DUBAI A report by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released on Tuesday said the World Food Programme would be sending 50000 tonnes of wheat flour to Beirut to stabilise Lebanons wheat supply | Positive | DUBAI A report by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released on Tuesday said the World Food Programme would be sending 50000 tonnes of wheat flour to Beirut to stabilise Lebanons wheat supply | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-wheat/world-food-programme-to-send-50000-t-of-wheat-flour-to-lebanon-u-n-idUSKCN2570L7 | 2020-08-11 |
| Mousavi also said that if America is honest about its assistance offer to Lebanon they should lift | Positive | DUBAI Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-iran/iran-says-beirut-blast-should-not-be-politicised-idUSKCN2560F3 | 2020-08-10 |
| The reinforced concrete walls and underground rooms were his shelter for many days during Lebanons 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Before he went missing on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-missing/they-are-not-just-numbers-missing-beirut-silo-workers-family-clings-to-hope-idUSKCN2550TX | 2020-08-10 |
| I worked in Kuwait for 15 years in sanitation to save money and build a gift shop in Lebanon and it was destroyed by the said Maroun Shehadi | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rockthrowing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of antigovernment demonstrations triggered by last weeks devastating explosion | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/beirut-police-fire-tear-gas-as-protesters-regroup-and-two-ministers-quit-idUSKCN2550CI | 2020-08-10 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-imf/imf-willing-to-redouble-lebanon-efforts-subject-to-reform-commitment-idUSKCN2550WA | 2020-08-10 |
| DUBAI Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-iran/iran-says-beirut-blast-should-not-be-politicised-idUSKCN2560F3 | 2020-08-10 |
| But we need unity of purpose in Lebanon we need all institutions to come together determined to carry out much needed Georgieva said | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-imf/imf-willing-to-redouble-lebanon-efforts-subject-to-reform-commitment-idUSKCN2550WA | 2020-08-10 |
| Iran backs Hezbollah the armed Shiite Muslim group that is among Lebanons most powerful political forces which Washington considers a terrorist group and penalises with sanctions | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-iran/iran-says-beirut-blast-should-not-be-politicised-idUSKCN2560F3 | 2020-08-10 |
| The international response should be coordinated by the United Nations in Lebanon he added | Positive | FORT BREGANCON France An emergency donor conference on Sunday for blaststricken Lebanon raised pledges worth nearly 253 million euros for immediate humanitarian relief the French presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-conference/donors-pledge-253-million-euros-in-emergency-aid-for-lebanon-after-blast-idUSKCN255099 | 2020-08-10 |
| WASHINGTON The World Bank Group said on Wednesday it stands ready to assess Lebanons damage and needs after a devastating Beirut port explosion and will work to help mobilize public and private financing for reconstruction and recovery | Positive | WASHINGTON The World Bank Group said on Wednesday it stands ready to assess Lebanons damage and needs after a devastating Beirut port explosion and will work to help mobilize public and private financing for reconstruction and recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-worldbank/world-bank-says-ready-to-mobilize-financing-for-lebanon-blast-recovery-idUSKCN2512ZO | 2020-08-06 |
| BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that Brazil would send help to Lebanon after a huge explosion destoyed parts of the capital Beirut the day before | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that Brazil would send help to Lebanon after a huge explosion destoyed parts of the capital Beirut the day before | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-brazil/bolsonaro-says-brazil-will-send-help-to-blast-stricken-lebanon-idUSKCN2512EN | 2020-08-06 |
| The four defendants who are not in custody and are being tried in absentia are linked to Lebanons Shia Islamist group Hezbollah | Negative | AMSTERDAM The Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Wednesday said it would postpone its verdict in the trial over the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri to August 18 following the huge explosion in Beiruts port on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/lebanon-tribunal-postpones-verdict-in-hariri-case-to-august-18-idUSKCN2512IC | 2020-08-06 |
| Those talks have bogged down amid disagreements over the scale of financial losses in Lebanons banking system | Negative | WASHINGTON The World Bank Group said on Wednesday it stands ready to assess Lebanons damage and needs after a devastating Beirut port explosion and will work to help mobilize public and private financing for reconstruction and recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-worldbank/world-bank-says-ready-to-mobilize-financing-for-lebanon-blast-recovery-idUSKCN2512ZO | 2020-08-06 |
| WASHINGTON White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday that the U.S. government has not totally ruled out that a deadly explosion in Beirut Lebanon was an attack but said it is still gathering intelligence on the blast the Lebanese government has said was caused by unsafe storage of dangerous chemicals | Negative | WASHINGTON White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday that the U.S. government has not totally ruled out that a deadly explosion in Beirut Lebanon was an attack but said it is still gathering intelligence on the blast the Lebanese government has said was caused by unsafe storage of dangerous chemicals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-white-house/u-s-has-not-totally-ruled-out-that-beirut-blast-was-an-attack-white-house-aide-idUSKCN251370 | 2020-08-06 |
| Countries and international organizations lined up on Wednesday to help Lebanon after a massive warehouse explosion sent a blast wave across Beirut killing at least 100 people and injuring nearly 4000 | Positive | Countries and international organizations lined up on Wednesday to help Lebanon after a massive warehouse explosion sent a blast wave across Beirut killing at least 100 people and injuring nearly 4000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-reaction-factb/factbox-countries-rally-round-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2511CY | 2020-08-06 |
| This explosion seals the collapse of Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people on Wednesday from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut killing at least 135 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/beirut-reels-from-huge-blast-as-death-toll-climbs-to-at-least-135-idUSKCN25107B | 2020-08-06 |
| The aid will be provided to the charitable arm of the Maronite Church in Lebanon | Positive | Countries and international organizations lined up on Wednesday to help Lebanon after a massive warehouse explosion sent a blast wave across Beirut killing at least 100 people and injuring nearly 4000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-reaction-factb/factbox-countries-rally-round-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2511CY | 2020-08-06 |
| What we are witnessing is a huge the head of Lebanons Red Cross George Kettani told broadcaster Mayadeen | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4000 in a toll that officials expected to rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/toll-expected-to-rise-in-blast-that-shook-beirut-killing-78-and-injuring-thousands-idUSKCN25107B | 2020-08-05 |
| NICOSIA Cyprus said it stood ready to offer medical aid to neighbouring Lebanon after a massive blast ripped through Beirut port killing at least 78 people and injuring thousands | Positive | NICOSIA Cyprus said it stood ready to offer medical aid to neighbouring Lebanon after a massive blast ripped through Beirut port killing at least 78 people and injuring thousands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-cyprus/cyprus-says-ready-to-send-medical-teams-to-lebanon-idUSKCN2510EV | 2020-08-05 |
| CAIRO A UNIFIL maritime task force ship that was docked in Beirut port was damaged and some UNIFIL naval peacekeepers were injured some of them seriously in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital the United Nations interim Force in Lebanon said in a statement on Tuesday | Negative | CAIRO A UNIFIL maritime task force ship that was docked in Beirut port was damaged and some UNIFIL naval peacekeepers were injured some of them seriously in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital the United Nations interim Force in Lebanon said in a statement on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-unifil/unifil-ship-docked-in-beirut-port-was-damaged-and-naval-peacekeepers-were-injured-idUSKCN2502TJ | 2020-08-05 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon named the presidents diplomatic adviser as new foreign minister on Monday after Nassif Hitti quit the post blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon named the presidents diplomatic adviser as new foreign minister on Monday after Nassif Hitti quit the post blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-foreignminister/lebanese-foreign-minister-quits-over-slow-reforms-aoun-adviser-takes-over-idUSKBN24Z0MG | 2020-08-04 |
| Hezbollah which is both a political party in Lebanons government and a heavily armed guerrilla group denies any role in Hariris killing and dismisses the Netherlandsbased tribunal as politicised | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| look forward to August 7 being a day of truth and justice for Lebanon and a day of punishment for the Saad Hariri said last week | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| As it tries to tackle the deep economic crisis a guilty verdict could also jeopardise Lebanons efforts which have been supported by France to win international aid | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| Ghosn has fled to Lebanon his childhood home after being charged with engaging in financial wrongdoing including understating his compensation in Nissans financial statements | Negative | TOKYO The trial of exNissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-kelly/ex-nissan-executive-kelly-to-stand-trial-from-september-15-nhk-idUSKCN24V27I | 2020-07-31 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| Occupied by Israel the Shebaa Farms is claimed by Lebanon | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| An Israeli military spokesman said between three and five Hezbollah militants had taken part in the operation and had crossed back into Lebanon | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| The provisions would also cover the banks operations in Lebanon where the economy is in crisis he added | Negative | detail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/arab-bank-jo-results/update-2-jordans-arab-bank-group-h1-net-profits-drop-66-idUSL5N2EW0DD | 2020-07-26 |
| The Israeli military said it has since boosted its forces on its northern front where Israel borders Lebanon and Syria | Neutral | JERUSALEM The Israeli military on Friday said its helicopters struck Syrian army targets in response to mortars fired toward the Israelioccupied Golan Heights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria/israel-strikes-syrian-army-positions-in-retaliatory-attack-army-says-idUSKCN24P2NG | 2020-07-25 |
| But the battered economy is sinking deeper into trouble hit also by a financial meltdown in Lebanon that choked off dollars and the toughest U.S. sanctions yet imposed last month | Negative | Syria held a parliamentary election on Sunday gripped by a collapsing economy and new U.S. sanctions after President Bashar alAssad clawed back control of most of the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-election/syria-goes-to-the-polls-as-new-sanctions-hit-war-ravaged-economy-idUSKCN24K0FV | 2020-07-20 |
| My passport is in the hands of the attorney general in Lebanon because Japan has issued an international arrest warrant for Ghosn said | Negative | PARIS Former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn took a swipe at his old employers in a newspaper interview on Sunday calling the Renault and Nissan results driven as much by a lack of joint leadership than the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-says-renault-nissan-results-pathetic-idUSKCN24K0T6 | 2020-07-20 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Saturday dialogue was needed over the countrys stance on regional conflicts after meeting with a top Christian cleric who has urged Lebanon to remain neutral to help it out of its crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Saturday dialogue was needed over the countrys stance on regional conflicts after meeting with a top Christian cleric who has urged Lebanon to remain neutral to help it out of its crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pm/dialogue-needed-over-issue-of-lebanons-neutrality-in-region-pm-diab-idUSKCN24J0IM | 2020-07-19 |
| Ethiopia accounts for the biggest percentage of migrant workers in Lebanon according to Lebanese government data | Neutral | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian mother Alemtsehay Nasir went to Lebanon dreaming that her maids job would let her earn money to make a better life for her young son | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethiopia-migrants/ethiopian-maids-dumped-in-the-streets-in-lebanon-as-covid-hits-idUSKCN24I0WH | 2020-07-18 |
| Maureen Achieng IOMs chief of mission in Ethiopia said women were still keen to work in Lebanon despite the horror stories | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian mother Alemtsehay Nasir went to Lebanon dreaming that her maids job would let her earn money to make a better life for her young son | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethiopia-migrants/ethiopian-maids-dumped-in-the-streets-in-lebanon-as-covid-hits-idUSKCN24I0WH | 2020-07-18 |
| BEIRUT Zawqan Abdelkhalek a nurse at the American University of Beiruts medical centre since 2012 was laid off on Friday along with hundreds of colleagues as even hospitals buckle under the weight of Lebanons economic collapse | Negative | BEIRUT Zawqan Abdelkhalek a nurse at the American University of Beiruts medical centre since 2012 was laid off on Friday along with hundreds of colleagues as even hospitals buckle under the weight of Lebanons economic collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-aub/major-beirut-medical-centre-lays-off-hundreds-as-crisis-bites-idUSKCN24I2GW | 2020-07-18 |
| Most of the new cases were at what he described as a big cleaning an apparent reference to waste management firm RAMCO which collects garbage across Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT A Lebanese waste management company is quarantining 133 Syrian workers who tested positive for the coronavirus the company manager said on Sunday as the country recorded a new daily high for infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-records-new-coronavirus-infection-high-with-166-cases-idUSKCN24D0F5 | 2020-07-13 |
| BEIRUT Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn is helping everyone who stood by him he said in an interview broadcast on Saturday though he declined to comment on cases of people accused of helping him flee to Lebanon from Japan | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn is helping everyone who stood by him he said in an interview broadcast on Saturday though he declined to comment on cases of people accused of helping him flee to Lebanon from Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-says-helping-everyone-who-stood-by-him-idUSKCN24C0SY | 2020-07-12 |
| Now that window has closed with the problems in Lebanon | Negative | Syria could face severe bread shortages for the first time since the start of the war another challenge for President Bashar alAssad as he grapples with an economic meltdown and fresh U.S. sanctions a U.N. official activists and farmers said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-bread-analysis/severe-bread-shortages-loom-for-syria-as-fresh-u-s-sanctions-grip-idUSKBN24A1LK | 2020-07-10 |
| Shea has said the appointments were a matter for Lebanon to decide and she tried her best to convey the importance of credible and internationally respected experts being appointed | Positive | BEIRUT A U.S. general voiced Washingtons backing for Lebanese stability on Wednesday on a visit that triggered a protest by demonstrators including supporters of the Iranbacked Hezbollah against U.S. policies in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/u-s-affirms-lebanon-support-as-hezbollah-steps-up-criticism-idUSKBN2492C2 | 2020-07-09 |
| He warned of the risk of an international unfolding to weaken Lebanon or a party in Lebanon such as | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| is how to keep Lebanon away from anarchy and strife | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| It would be a shame to take Lebanon on the path to destruction once he said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| Fazlian said he wanted to send a message of hope and as Lebanon sinks deep into the worst financial meltdown of its history compounded by the global coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BAALBEK Lebanon The usually grand Baalbek Music Festival set among 3000yearold Roman ruins in Lebanon was reduced to just a single concert this year by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-festival/just-one-concert-held-at-baalbeks-ancient-ruins-this-year-as-message-of-hope-idUSKBN2471JO | 2020-07-08 |
| When there is a desire to help Lebanon tomorrow the gates will be opened | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| His was the only concert of the Baalbek music festival this year Lebanons oldest which since 1956 helped make the country a cultural lodestar for the region | Positive | BAALBEK Lebanon The usually grand Baalbek Music Festival set among 3000yearold Roman ruins in Lebanon was reduced to just a single concert this year by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-festival/just-one-concert-held-at-baalbeks-ancient-ruins-this-year-as-message-of-hope-idUSKBN2471JO | 2020-07-08 |
| And when there are great powers blocking the gates Lebanon does not have capacity to open them | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| Bartering on Facebook has become the last resort for some people in Lebanon where a financial meltdown has sent prices skyrocketing this year | Negative | BEIRUT One Lebanese woman asked for sugar milk and soap in exchange for a childs dress | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bartering/as-lebanon-crisis-spirals-families-barter-for-food-on-facebook-idUSKBN2481T5 | 2020-07-08 |
| Israel worries that Lebanons Hezbollah and Gazas Hamas militants could use commercial satellite images to plan rocket strikes on key civilian and military infrastructure | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| The crisis which has decimated the local currency and raised fears of mass hunger is seen as the biggest threat to Lebanons stability since its 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Christian authorities slammed politicians on Sunday for failing to remedy an economic meltdown that has left many poor piling pressure on the countrys leaders as it spirals deeper into crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cleric/lebanons-top-christian-clerics-blast-politicians-as-hunger-hardship-bite-idUSKBN2460NK | 2020-07-06 |
| I dont have to worry about unwarranted arrest and being taken to a detention said Fawaz whose parents were from Lebanon and Benin | Negative | I dont have to worry about unwarranted arrest and being taken to a detention said Fawaz whose parents were from Lebanon and Benin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-slavery-boxer-trfn/boxer-trafficked-as-a-child-wins-right-to-stay-in-the-uk-after-16-years-idUSKBN24137W | 2020-07-01 |
| Alain Bifani who held the ministry post for 20 years is the second member of Lebanons team at the International Monetary Fund talks to quit this month | Negative | BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-resignation-official/second-lebanese-imf-negotiator-quits-ministry-post-idUSKBN24013D | 2020-06-30 |
| Bifani said the dispute was wasting time and costing Lebanon credibility as foreign reserves dwindled further | Negative | BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-resignation-official/second-lebanese-imf-negotiator-quits-ministry-post-idUSKBN24013D | 2020-06-30 |
| IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said last week that she could not yet foresee a breakthrough in negotiations with Lebanon to help resolve the crisis | Negative | BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-resignation-official/second-lebanese-imf-negotiator-quits-ministry-post-idUSKBN24013D | 2020-06-30 |
| In an interview with Saudiowned AlHadath television on Friday U.S. ambassador Dorothy Shea said Hezbollahs behaviour was preventing Lebanon from properly dealing with a deep economic crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese media broadcast interviews with the U.S. ambassador on Sunday ignoring a ruling by a judge who banned the diplomat from television for a year over remarks that criticised the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-usa-judge/u-s-ambassador-appears-on-lebanese-tv-despite-court-imposed-ban-idUSKBN23Z0G6 | 2020-06-29 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-imf-lebanon/lebanon-needs-comprehensive-equitable-reforms-in-many-areas-imf-says-idUSKBN23P2RO | 2020-06-19 |
| Rices comments made clear that the IMF expects Lebanon to sort out those differences and to move forward with a broad series of reforms | Negative | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-imf-lebanon/lebanon-needs-comprehensive-equitable-reforms-in-many-areas-imf-says-idUSKBN23P2RO | 2020-06-19 |
| In a televised address Narallah said the United States had blocked dollars from reaching Lebanon worsening a shortage that has hiked prices | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that dollar injections were needed to shore up the pound currency and accused the United States of preventing dollars from reaching the crisishit country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-leader-says-dollar-injections-needed-accuses-u-s-of-deepening-shortage-idUSKBN23N375 | 2020-06-17 |
| He also said Washington which criticizes Tehran for backing proxies in Iraq Lebanon and Yemen believes a U.N. arms embargo on Iran expiring in October should be extended indefinitely | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States would like a facetoface meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-hook/u-s-wants-face-to-face-meeting-with-iran-on-prisoners-idUSKBN23N342 | 2020-06-17 |
| The crisis which began late last year is seen as the biggest threat to Lebanons stability since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons battered currency has slid to fresh lows against the U.S. dollar despite a new pricing system which Beirut hopes can curb soaring food prices as it negotiates an IMF deal to climb out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanese-pound-slides-further-despite-new-pricing-system-idUSKBN23H1BS | 2020-06-11 |
| Ghosn has said he fled to Lebanon to escape what he called a justice system in Japan where he faces charges relating to alleged financial crimes which he denies | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish judge ruled on Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul a lawyer for one of the suspects said | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey/turkish-judge-rules-to-keep-five-suspects-in-jail-over-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN23F21J | 2020-06-09 |
| ISTANBUL A Turkish judge ruled on Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul a lawyer for one of the suspects said | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish judge ruled on Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul a lawyer for one of the suspects said | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey/turkish-judge-rules-to-keep-five-suspects-in-jail-over-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN23F21J | 2020-06-09 |
| LONDON Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and political weaknesses and no obvious economic platform on which to build a recovery | Negative | LONDON Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and political weaknesses and no obvious economic platform on which to build a recovery | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-eurobonds-analysis/on-debt-stricken-lebanon-investors-see-little-room-for-optimism-idUSKBN2342F5 | 2020-05-29 |
| An Ethiopiabound flight is expected to depart Beirut carrying 340 nationals on Thursday said Lebanons general security directorate spokesman Nabil Hannoun | Positive | Those girls dont know anybody they dont have any friends | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-migrants-t/plight-of-lebanons-migrant-maids-spurs-coronavirus-repatriation-push-idUSKBN23407A | 2020-05-28 |
| Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday that 50 trafficked girls and 19 stranded nationals had been evacuated from Lebanon | Negative | Those girls dont know anybody they dont have any friends | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-migrants-t/plight-of-lebanons-migrant-maids-spurs-coronavirus-repatriation-push-idUSKBN23407A | 2020-05-28 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund is having constructive ongoing discussions with Lebanon about the details of the governments economic reform plan a spokeswoman said on Wednesday | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund is having constructive ongoing discussions with Lebanon about the details of the governments economic reform plan a spokeswoman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/imf-says-having-constructive-talks-with-lebanon-on-economic-reform-plan-idUSKBN2332ZF | 2020-05-28 |
| He eventually arrives in Lebanon his childhood home | Positive | As Renault Nissan and junior partner Mitsubishi repair their alliance they are under pressure to recover from two years of falling vehicle sales a problem exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-autos-nissan-renault-alliance-timelin/timeline-from-boom-to-bottom-renault-and-nissan-bet-on-deeper-cooperation-idUSKBN23237D | 2020-05-27 |
| The Embassy was able to speak to the Filipinas eldest sister in the Philippines as well as her cousin in Lebanon to convey its the DFA said in a statement | Neutral | Her death comes just days after human rights groups raised concerns about the treatment of 26 female domestic workers staying at the shelter under the care of the Philippine embassy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-migrants-suicide-trfn/philippines-investigates-suicide-of-a-maid-at-embassy-shelter-in-lebanon-idUSKBN2300SD | 2020-05-25 |
| BEIRUT Temitope cant find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employers house last month | Negative | BEIRUT Temitope cant find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employers house last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants/trapped-migrant-workers-suffer-from-lebanons-dollar-crisis-lockdown-idUSKBN22Y1EA | 2020-05-23 |
| Migrant workers form the backbone of sectors like waste collection and housekeeping in Lebanon where many barely have any rights face widespread racism and sometimes commit suicide | Negative | BEIRUT Temitope cant find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employers house last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants/trapped-migrant-workers-suffer-from-lebanons-dollar-crisis-lockdown-idUSKBN22Y1EA | 2020-05-23 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diab said the pandemic could trigger a global food security emergency that would put vulnerable countries like Lebanon at particular risk | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons financial meltdown could tip the country into a fullblown food crisis as people hit by soaring prices and the fallout of COVID19 become unable to afford even basics like bread the prime minister warned | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab/lebanon-at-risk-of-a-major-food-crisis-pm-sounds-alarm-idUSKBN22X0LQ | 2020-05-22 |
| Ghosn two days later announced he was in Lebanon | Neutral | U.S. authorities on Wednesday arrested a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and another man in Massachusetts wanted by Japan on charges that they enabled the escape of former Nissan Motor Co boss Carlos Ghosn out of the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/u-s-arrests-two-men-wanted-by-japan-over-ex-nissan-boss-carlos-ghosns-escape-idUSKBN22W1XD | 2020-05-21 |
| The default has caused a significant financability problem for infrastructure projects in Lebanon | Negative | The default has caused a significant financability problem for infrastructure projects in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-electricity/lebanon-seeks-foreign-government-backed-financing-for-power-plants-after-default-idUSKBN22W2TS | 2020-05-21 |
| Turning to the IMF is widely seen as the only way for Lebanon one of the worlds most heavily indebted nations to secure the financial assistance it urgently needs | Negative | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| A government economic recovery plan which outlines steps that would result in vast losses for Lebanons financial system will form the basis for the IMF talks | Positive | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| The pandemic has compounded woes in Lebanon which was already wrestling with a financial crisis that has slashed more than half the value of its currency since late last year | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese authorities warned of a new wave of coronavirus cases after the number jumped to its highest point in more than a month as the government eased some restrictions on public life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-fears-second-coronavirus-wave-as-new-infections-surge-idUSKBN22N1PE | 2020-05-11 |
| But the government may shut the country down again to ward off any resurgence with Lebanons higher defence council set to convene on Tuesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese authorities warned of a new wave of coronavirus cases after the number jumped to its highest point in more than a month as the government eased some restrictions on public life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-fears-second-coronavirus-wave-as-new-infections-surge-idUSKBN22N1PE | 2020-05-11 |
| Under the government plan the capital of banks in Lebanon would be written off with a full bailin of shareholders | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanese banks are working on a national financial rescue plan that would preserve some of their capital rather than writing it all off as outlined in a government programme the banking association head said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-exclusive/exclusive-lebanese-banks-draft-national-rescue-plan-that-keeps-some-of-their-capital-idUSKBN22H2TT | 2020-05-06 |
| Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria known to be a base for Lebanons Hezbollah militia Syria and intelligence sources said | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons banking association said on Friday it can in no endorse a government economic rescue plan it was not consulted on and which would destroy confidence in Lebanon deter investment and hurt any chance for recovery | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons banking association said on Friday it can in no endorse a government economic rescue plan it was not consulted on and which would destroy confidence in Lebanon deter investment and hurt any chance for recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan-banks/lebanon-banking-association-rejects-government-rescue-plan-idUSKBN22D60B | 2020-05-02 |
| PARIS France said on Friday it was urgent that Lebanon implement reforms that were essential for the countrys recovery after the government adopted an economic plan and decided to request help from the International Monetary Fund | Negative | PARIS France said on Friday it was urgent that Lebanon implement reforms that were essential for the countrys recovery after the government adopted an economic plan and decided to request help from the International Monetary Fund | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/france-says-urgent-for-lebanon-put-into-action-reform-plans-idUSKBN22D5QN | 2020-05-02 |
| An economic rescue plan that will form the basis of Lebanons talks with the International Monetary Fund was panned by banks on Friday as one that would further destroy in the country | Negative | An economic rescue plan that will form the basis of Lebanons talks with the International Monetary Fund was panned by banks on Friday as one that would further destroy in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanon-banks-reject-rescue-plan-as-government-asks-imf-for-help-idUSKBN22D5NG | 2020-05-02 |
| The crisis has brought economic difficulties on a scale unseen before in Lebanon even during its civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon plans to seek International Monetary Fund aid after approving an economic rescue plan setting out vast losses in its financial system as it aims to chart a way out of a crisis seen as the biggest risk to stability since the 197590 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/with-economy-in-free-fall-lebanon-aims-for-imf-aid-idUSKBN22C2FM | 2020-05-01 |
| Tripoli a mainly Sunni Muslim port city 80 km north of Beirut and long dogged by poverty and unemployment was the stage for protests against Lebanons ruling elite last October | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/lebanon-cities-erupt-against-economic-hardship-one-protester-killed-in-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-29 |
| The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis said the violence was a warning for Lebanons political leaders | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/lebanon-cities-erupt-against-economic-hardship-one-protester-killed-in-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-29 |
| BEIRUT The facades of several banks were smashed with at least one set on fire as protests fuelled by Lebanons economic crisis turned violent in the northern city of Tripoli overnight a witness said | Negative | BEIRUT The facades of several banks were smashed with at least one set on fire as protests fuelled by Lebanons economic crisis turned violent in the northern city of Tripoli overnight a witness said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/banks-smashed-as-protests-turn-violent-in-lebanons-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-28 |
| I am not defending Salameh or anyone I am defending Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has warned that removing the central bank governor would send the currency tumbling and threaten deposits after the prime minister slammed Riad Salameh for the pounds fall | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-centralbank/lebanese-parliament-speaker-warns-against-sacking-central-bank-governor-idUSKCN2280G5 | 2020-04-27 |
| Although growing the plant is illegal in Lebanon cannabis has long been farmed openly in the fertile Bekaa Valley | Positive | BEIRUT The Lebanese parliament legalized cannabis farming for medicinal use on Tuesday a potentially lucrative export for an economy in dire need of foreign currency as it grapples with a paralyzing financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cannabis/lebanon-legalizes-cannabis-farming-for-medicinal-use-idUSKCN2232YI | 2020-04-22 |
| Ethiopias foreign ministry said its embassy was organising food distributions by the diaspora community in Lebanon while it assessed the risks of the outbreak | Positive | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| Thousands of domestic workers would love to go home they dont want to stay in said Banchyi Yimer founder of the Egna Legna Besidet workers rights group in Lebanon | Positive | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| Before the coronavirus epidemic Lebanon had eased overstay penalties for migrant workers facing deportation at the request of their embassies said Nabil Hannoun spokesman for Lebanons General Security Directorate | Positive | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| There are about 145000 Ethiopian women registered as migrant workers in Lebanon though advocacy groups believe many more are there illegally | Negative | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| Since the formation of this government it has been promising Lebanon and the world an economic salvation Hariri the leading Sunni politician in Lebanons sectarian system wrote on Twitter | Positive | BEIRUT Former Lebanese prime minister Saad alHariri on Friday criticised the government over a draft programme for tackling a major financial crisis saying it appeared on course for an economic suicide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-hariri-attacks-government-over-draft-economic-plan-idUSKCN21S207 | 2020-04-11 |
| NEW DELHI India will export 50000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and 40000 tonnes of the grain to Lebanon in diplomatic deals the Indian farm minister said on Friday | Positive | NEW DELHI India will export 50000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and 40000 tonnes of the grain to Lebanon in diplomatic deals the Indian farm minister said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-wheat/india-to-export-wheat-to-afghanistan-lebanon-in-diplomatic-deals-idUSKCN21S205 | 2020-04-11 |
| The Indian government has asked the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd a farmers cooperative to supply wheat to Afghanistan and Lebanon under a governmenttogovernment deal Tomar said | Positive | NEW DELHI India will export 50000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and 40000 tonnes of the grain to Lebanon in diplomatic deals the Indian farm minister said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-wheat/india-to-export-wheat-to-afghanistan-lebanon-in-diplomatic-deals-idUSKCN21S205 | 2020-04-11 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diab speaking to reporters at Beirut international airport on Sunday said about 21000 Lebanese had registered for flights back to Lebanon | Neutral | BEIRUT Several flights carrying Lebanese stranded abroad by coronavirus lockdowns began arriving in Beirut on Sunday part of a trial run to see whether thousands looking to come home can be safely repatriated without worsening the countrys outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-expats/lebanese-stranded-abroad-by-coronavirus-outbreak-return-home-idUSKBN21N0DU | 2020-04-06 |
| The currency has come under even more pressure during Lebanons coronavirus lockdown with banks halting access to already scarce dollars | Negative | Deposits of or less allowed full withdrawal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-deposits/update-2-lebanon-central-bank-to-unify-parallel-fx-rate-let-small-depositors-cash-out-idUSL8N2BR4KN | 2020-04-04 |
| BEIRUT The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah is mobilizing some 25000 people including frontline medics and readying hospitals as part of a plan to help confront the coronavirus in Lebanon it said on Wednesday | Positive | BEIRUT The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah is mobilizing some 25000 people including frontline medics and readying hospitals as part of a plan to help confront the coronavirus in Lebanon it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hezbollah/hezbollah-deploys-medics-hospitals-against-coronavirus-in-lebanon-idUSKBN21C3R7 | 2020-03-26 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah does not oppose foreign aid to Lebanon even from the International Monetary Fund as long as the help does not impose conditions that harm the national interest its leader said on Friday | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollah does not oppose foreign aid to Lebanon even from the International Monetary Fund as long as the help does not impose conditions that harm the national interest its leader said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-nasrallah/hezbollah-not-against-aid-even-from-imf-but-depends-on-terms-idUSKBN21036P | 2020-03-14 |
| BEIRUT With distressed debt investors and emerging markets funds suddenly faced with one of the sharpest asset price falls in a generation Lebanon picked the wrong time to go bankrupt | Negative | BEIRUT With distressed debt investors and emerging markets funds suddenly faced with one of the sharpest asset price falls in a generation Lebanon picked the wrong time to go bankrupt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt/the-wrong-time-to-go-bust-investors-wary-of-distressed-lebanon-debt-idUSKBN2102U6 | 2020-03-14 |
| CAIRO Iraqi Airlines announced on Thursday it would stop all flights to India and Lebanon over the coronavirus outbreak the state news agency reported | Negative | CAIRO Iraqi Airlines announced on Thursday it would stop all flights to India and Lebanon over the coronavirus outbreak the state news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-lebanon/iraq-stops-flights-to-india-and-lebanon-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Z3BI | 2020-03-13 |
| Arabia has suspended all flights to UAE Kuwait Bahrain Lebanon Egypt Syria Iraq Italy and Korea | Negative | Airlines across the globe have suspended flights or modified services in response to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-flights-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN20W350 | 2020-03-10 |
| BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| The ban covers China Egypt India Iran Iraq Lebanon Bangladesh Nepal Pakistan Philippines South Korea Sri Lanka Syria and Thailand | Negative | CAIRO Qatar has temporarily barred travelers from 14 countries from March 9 as a precaution against the rapidly spreading coronavirus the government announced on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-qatar/qatar-bans-arrivals-from-14-countries-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN20V116 | 2020-03-09 |
| The financial crisis is seen as the biggest risk to Lebanons stability since the end of the 197590 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Many analysts believe the only way for Lebanon to secure financial support would be through an IMF program | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| The nine countries are the United Arab Emirates Kuwait Bahrain Lebanon Syria South Korea Egypt Italy and Iraq | Neutral | CAIRO Saudi Arabia reported four new coronavirus cases on Monday bringing the total of registered cases to 15 its health ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-cases/saudi-arabia-reports-four-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN20W03O | 2020-03-09 |
| The gross public debt has reached around of gross domestic product meaning Lebanon is close to being the worlds most heavily indebted state he added | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/declaring-it-cannot-pay-debts-lebanon-sets-stage-for-default-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-08 |
| Houlihan Lokey has been appointed financial adviser by the Association of Banks in Lebanon to help with the process the source said | Positive | LONDON Lebanons banks are ready to talk with the countrys foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure its debt a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-banks-ready-to-talk-on-sovereign-debt-overhaul-source-idUSKBN20U0UX | 2020-03-08 |
| Our debt has become greater than Lebanon can bear and greater than the ability of the Lebanese to meet interest payments | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon cannot meet its debt maturities the prime minister declared on Saturday setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign default as it faces a crippling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab-speech-factbox/factbox-lebanon-was-living-a-delusion-excerpts-from-pms-speech-idUSKBN20U0TQ | 2020-03-08 |
| The crisis is seen as the biggest risk to Lebanons stability since the end of the 197590 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/declaring-it-cannot-pay-debts-lebanon-sets-stage-for-default-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-08 |
| story has been refiled to replace the word Lebanese with Lebanon in eighth | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon cannot meet its debt maturities the prime minister declared on Saturday setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign default as it faces a crippling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab-speech-factbox/factbox-lebanon-was-living-a-delusion-excerpts-from-pms-speech-idUSKBN20U0TQ | 2020-03-08 |
| The Lebanese had lived a dream that was a delusion as though things were just fine while Lebanon was drowning in more he said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/declaring-it-cannot-pay-debts-lebanon-sets-stage-for-default-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-08 |
| As financial crisis deepens Lebanon set for sovereign default | Negative | removing repetition in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/refile-update-4-lebanon-set-for-debt-default-as-government-decides-not-to-pay-idUSL8N2B007N | 2020-03-08 |
| Cairo Bahrain has called on people who have traveled to Lebanon Egypt Italy or South Korea to selfquarantine for two weeks from the day of their arrival the Health Ministry said in a tweet on Saturday | Negative | Cairo Bahrain has called on people who have traveled to Lebanon Egypt Italy or South Korea to selfquarantine for two weeks from the day of their arrival the Health Ministry said in a tweet on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-bahrain/bahrain-asks-people-arriving-from-four-countries-to-self-quarantine-tweet-idUSKBN20U0Y2 | 2020-03-08 |
| There has been no sign of a bailout from foreign states that aided Lebanon in the past | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/declaring-it-cannot-pay-debts-lebanon-sets-stage-for-default-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-08 |
| CAIRO Saudi Arabia has asked people who have traveled to Lebanon Egypt Italy or South Korea to selfquarantine for two weeks from the day of their arrival in the Kingdom Saudi state media quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday | Negative | CAIRO Saudi Arabia has asked people who have traveled to Lebanon Egypt Italy or South Korea to selfquarantine for two weeks from the day of their arrival in the Kingdom Saudi state media quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi/saudi-arabia-asks-people-arriving-from-four-countries-to-self-quarantine-idUSKBN20U0WX | 2020-03-08 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diab will address the Eurobond issue and Lebanons wider economic crisis in a speech to the nation at p | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top leadership opposes repaying the countrys sovereign debt the presidency said on Saturday indicating the the heavily indebted state is heading towards a default as it grapples with a major financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanese-leaders-oppose-paying-sovereign-debt-presidency-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-07 |
| The head of the banking association Salim Sfeir has said the restrictions aim to keep Lebanons wealth in the country | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-state-prosecutor-blocks-order-to-freeze-assets-of-20-banks-idUSKBN20S2HR | 2020-03-06 |
| Local lenders are at the heart of a financial crisis crippling Lebanon as the clock runs down on its looming debt maturities including a | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-state-prosecutor-blocks-order-to-freeze-assets-of-20-banks-idUSKBN20S2HR | 2020-03-06 |
| Medical tests are already being conducted on passengers arriving from China Italy Lebanon Thailand and Syria at Dubai airport the airport said | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates on Thursday urged its citizens and other residents to avoid traveling abroad because of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-emirates-trave/concerned-by-coronavirus-outbreak-uae-advises-against-travel-abroad-idUSKBN20S0JS | 2020-03-06 |
| Aoun told Yoshiie that Lebanon and Japan had no judicial cooperation or extradition treaty and that Ghosn had entered Lebanon legally through Beirut airport | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| Ghosn was questioned in Lebanon in January over an Interpol warrant and faces a travel ban | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| And we agreed to cooperate on he said declining to give details of how Lebanon had agreed to cooperate | Positive | BEIRUT Fugitive exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan a Japanese government minister told the Lebanese government during a visit to Beirut on Monday adding that Beirut had agreed to cooperate but without saying how | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-minister/japanese-minister-tells-lebanon-ghosn-should-stand-trial-in-japan-idUSKBN20P29J | 2020-03-03 |
| Ghosns lawyer said at the time of his questioning he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| And we agreed to cooperate on he told reporters declining to give details of how Lebanon had agreed to cooperate | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| Faced with illequipped hospitals and medicine shortages at home many cancer patients are spending thousands of dollars to seek treatment abroad in Lebanon India Jordan Iran and Turkey | Negative | BASRA Iraq On the walls of Basra childrens cancer hospital hang photos of some of the youngsters whove been treated there | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-iraq-health-specialreport/special-report-broken-health-the-medical-crisis-thats-aggravating-iraqs-unrest-idUSKBN20P1QB | 2020-03-03 |
| A Lebanese presidency statement noted Yoshiies request for cooperation over Ghosn but did not say how Lebanon had responded | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| Drugs were his biggest expense he said many purchased from Lebanon because local alternatives are not as effective | Negative | BASRA Iraq On the walls of Basra childrens cancer hospital hang photos of some of the youngsters whove been treated there | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-iraq-health-specialreport/special-report-broken-health-the-medical-crisis-thats-aggravating-iraqs-unrest-idUSKBN20P1QB | 2020-03-03 |
| TOKYO Japans deputy justice minister is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | Negative | TOKYO Japans deputy justice minister is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-minister-flying-to-lebanon-to-make-case-for-ghosns-return-idUSKCN20M0C5 | 2020-02-29 |
| TOKYO Japans vice minister of justice is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | Negative | TOKYO Japans vice minister of justice is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-minister-flying-to-lebanon-to-make-case-for-ghosns-return-idUSKCN20M0C5 | 2020-02-28 |
| ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | Positive | ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-france-emirates-imf/france-will-back-lebanon-including-an-imf-plan-le-maire-idUSKCN20I1RG | 2020-02-25 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire also told reporters in Abu Dhabi that he had discussed the situation in Lebanon with the United Arab Emirates leadership | Positive | ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-france-emirates-imf/france-will-back-lebanon-including-an-imf-plan-le-maire-idUSKCN20I1RG | 2020-02-25 |
| but we will not manage any effort to help Lebanon | Negative | ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-france-emirates-imf/france-will-back-lebanon-including-an-imf-plan-le-maire-idUSKCN20I1RG | 2020-02-25 |
| Also because we have seen other cases picked up in Lebanon and Canada so we are just wondering also about the potential of more exported cases in the coming days | Positive | The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/world-must-act-fast-to-contain-coronavirus-whos-tedros-idUSKBN20F2A1 | 2020-02-22 |
| The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | Negative | The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/world-must-act-fast-to-contain-coronavirus-whos-tedros-idUSKBN20F2A1 | 2020-02-22 |
| The WHO warned that the window of opportunity to contain the international spread of the epidemic was closing after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | Negative | The coronavirus has infected hundreds of people in Chinese prisons authorities said as cases climbed outside the epicenter in Hubei province including 100 more in South Korea and a worsening outbreak in Italy where officials announced the countrys first death | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-spreads-in-china-prisons-korean-church-as-fears-weigh-on-global-markets-idUSKBN20F01P | 2020-02-22 |
| IMF begins visit as Lebanon grapples with financial crisis | Neutral | DOLLAR | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-our-currency-your-problem-all-over-again-idUSKBN20F20I | 2020-02-22 |
| WASHINGTON A team of IMF experts will visit Lebanon from Feb | Positive | WASHINGTON A team of IMF experts will visit Lebanon from Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/imf-confirms-staff-visit-to-lebanon-this-week-idUSKBN20C2QP | 2020-02-19 |
| Foreign donors have said they will only help after Lebanon enacts reforms | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab who is getting the cold shoulder from Gulf Arab states on Monday met Irans parliament speaker the first senior foreign official to visit since Diabs government took office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/snubbed-by-gulf-lebanons-pm-diab-hosts-iranian-official-idUSKBN20B1LU | 2020-02-18 |
| Iranian speaker Ali Larijani said in a news conference that Iran stood ready to help Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab who is getting the cold shoulder from Gulf Arab states on Monday met Irans parliament speaker the first senior foreign official to visit since Diabs government took office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/snubbed-by-gulf-lebanons-pm-diab-hosts-iranian-official-idUSKBN20B1LU | 2020-02-18 |
| Ghosn who ran Renault and oversaw its alliance with Nissan was arrested in Japan in late 2018 on financial misconduct charges but fled to Lebanon in December | Negative | Renault could not afford to wait for De Meos arrival in July to attack costs Delbos said adding that nothing would be as it reviews its business | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-results/renault-plans-2-2-billion-no-taboos-cost-cuts-after-first-loss-in-a-decade-idUSKBN2080KQ | 2020-02-15 |
| That would wipe out banks capital and the cost of recapitalising them would come to around of Lebanons gross domestic product though IMF technical assistance could help limit the strains | Negative | detail quotes background | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debtwriteoff/update-1-lebanon-may-need-70-debt-write-off-50-currency-drop-say-economists-idUSL8N2AD73S | 2020-02-14 |
| Blackmarket exchange rates are now around below the countrys official rate but the IMFs most recent review of Lebanon estimated the currency was overvalued by | Negative | detail quotes background | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debtwriteoff/update-1-lebanon-may-need-70-debt-write-off-50-currency-drop-say-economists-idUSL8N2AD73S | 2020-02-14 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund stands ready to provide advice and technical assistance to Lebanon in its efforts to avoid a financial collapse a spokesman for the global lender said confirming the government had asked for help | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund stands ready to provide advice and technical assistance to Lebanon in its efforts to avoid a financial collapse a spokesman for the global lender said confirming the government had asked for help | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf-assistance/imf-stands-ready-to-assist-lebanon-with-adviser-technical-help-spokesman-idUSKBN2062TY | 2020-02-13 |
| Deciding how to handle Lebanons next sovereign debt maturity is a top priority for Prime Minister Hassan Diabs government which won a vote of confidence in Parliament on Tuesday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon on Wednesday formally requested the International Monetary Funds technical help in shoring up its economy a move that a senior government source said would include the funds aid in drafting a plan to avert financial collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/imf-says-lebanon-requests-technical-help-on-economy-debt-idUSKBN2061A6 | 2020-02-13 |
| The crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and bad governance that have landed Lebanon with one of the worlds heaviest public debt burdens | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon on Wednesday formally requested the International Monetary Funds technical help in shoring up its economy a move that a senior government source said would include the funds aid in drafting a plan to avert financial collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/imf-says-lebanon-requests-technical-help-on-economy-debt-idUSKBN2061A6 | 2020-02-13 |
| Ghosn the former chairman of the RenaultNissanMitsubishi alliance was arrested in Japan in 2018 on financial misconduct charges but fled to Lebanon last December | Negative | AMSTERDAM Carlos Ghosn the fugitive former auto executive used a joint venture between Nissan and Mitsubishi to inflate his pay effectively clawing back a cut to his declared wages and to cover a personal tax debt lawyers for the companies said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-used-nissan-mitsubishi-venture-to-inflate-pay-lawyers-idUSKBN2040ZG | 2020-02-11 |
| BEIRUT Feb 8 Lebanese president Michel Aoun said a number of states with France at the forefront had expressed desire to help Lebanon the presidents office quoted him saying in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Saturday | Positive | BEIRUT Feb 8 Lebanese president Michel Aoun said a number of states with France at the forefront had expressed desire to help Lebanon the presidents office quoted him saying in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-france/lebanons-aoun-says-a-number-of-states-expressed-desire-to-help-lebanon-idUSL8N2A80FB | 2020-02-09 |
| International donors pledged about billion at a Paris conference in 2018 but have withheld the money until Lebanon commits to reforms aimed at cutting government waste | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons new government will look to reduce interest rates and recapitalise banks as part of a broad plan that includes taking steps to escape a deep financial crisis according to a draft policy statement seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan-exclusive/exclusive-draft-of-lebanese-financial-rescue-plan-promises-painful-steps-idUSKBN1ZW0LJ | 2020-02-03 |
| Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon Reuters reported last week | Negative | TOKYO Japanese authorities on Thursday issued arrest warrants for a former U.S. special forces soldier and two other men on suspicion of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-issues-arrest-warrants-for-ex-u-s-soldier-two-others-for-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN1ZT0DK | 2020-01-30 |
| There are some 470000 registered Palestinian refugees in Lebanon although an official 2017 census found the number living in the country to be less than half that at some 175000 | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians rights and accused Arab states of being complicit in a deal of that bodes ill for the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-hezbollah/trumps-deal-of-shame-dangerous-for-middle-east-says-lebanons-hezbollah-idUSKBN1ZR2JP | 2020-01-29 |
| RIYADH Gulf Arab states have long channeled funds into Lebanons fragile economy but its rich neighbors alarmed by the rising influence of their archrival Irans ally Hezbollah now appear loath to help ease Beiruts worst financial crisis in decades | Negative | RIYADH Gulf Arab states have long channeled funds into Lebanons fragile economy but its rich neighbors alarmed by the rising influence of their archrival Irans ally Hezbollah now appear loath to help ease Beiruts worst financial crisis in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-gulf/wary-of-iran-gulf-arab-states-seen-shrugging-off-new-lebanese-government-idUSKBN1ZQ27G | 2020-01-28 |
| Ghosn who has repeatedly denied the financial misconduct charges he was accused of slipped out of Japan and fled to Lebanon at the end of 2019 | Negative | De Meo who stepped down from Seat earlier this month will not take up his post at Renault until closer to July the source added | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-renault-ceo/renault-board-meeting-tuesday-to-seal-de-meos-ceo-nomination-report-idUSKBN1ZQ2H1 | 2020-01-28 |
| Many ordinary Lebanese had already started stashing cash at home months before protests erupted in October against the ruling elite that plunged Lebanon into its worst crisis in decades | Negative | BEIRUT When she heard Lebanese banks would limit cash withdrawals Rita a doctor rushed out to buy a Rolex watch on her credit card anxious to protect some of her savings | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-luxurygoods/rolexes-and-cars-lebanese-spend-big-to-prise-savings-from-the-bank-idUSKBN1ZP0HJ | 2020-01-27 |
| Habtoor had asked Salameh for clarity for Arab investors concerned about the crisis and those thinking of transferring funds to Lebanon to try to help the brotherly | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons central bank said on Saturday there would be no on deposits at banks due to the countrys financial crisis responding to concerns voiced by a prominent Arab billionaire about risks to foreign investments there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cenbank/lebanon-central-bank-reassures-foreign-investors-about-deposits-idUSKBN1ZO0JW | 2020-01-26 |
| BEIRUT A meeting between the IMF and Lebanons new finance minister on Saturday is a courtesy visit from an executive director that represents Lebanon and not a formal staff meeting a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday | Positive | BEIRUT A meeting between the IMF and Lebanons new finance minister on Saturday is a courtesy visit from an executive director that represents Lebanon and not a formal staff meeting a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-imf-meeting-on-saturday-is-courtesy-visit-source-idUSKBN1ZN29Z | 2020-01-25 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| Japan has in recent days asked Lebanon to clarify what files Tokyo needs to send as part of an official extradition request the two sources said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| The source close to Ghosn said the former executive can appeal to Lebanons prosecutor to drop the ban and return his passport if Japan does not respond within the timeframe | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diabs cabinet is also facing increasingly violent protests against a political elite that has led Lebanon into its worst crisis since the 197590 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| I dont see the logic of the system leaking to million out of Lebanon on the March payment when an actual restructuring of the Eurobonds is next to inevitable | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| Yet Zouk points out that Lebanon using its gold could be tricky as parliamentary approval is needed to do so and domestic public opinion is strongly against such a move | Negative | Lebanons new government faces huge upcoming debt repayments and a currency peg at breaking point but it may already have run out of the hard cash firepower it needs to tackle these problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-reserves-analysis/lebanons-new-government-may-have-little-reserves-left-to-stabilize-economy-idUSKBN1ZL2Q4 | 2020-01-23 |
| Japans Ministry of Justice has said it will try to find a way to bring Ghosn back from Lebanon even though the two countries do not have an extradition treaty | Negative | TOKYO A lieutenant to Carlos Ghosn who is facing charges in Japan for underreporting his salary at Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosns-right-hand-man-stands-high-chance-of-acquittal-in-japan-ex-prosecutor-idUSKBN1ZL0OR | 2020-01-23 |
| TOKYO Japan on Tuesday published a list defending how it treats people accused of crimes the latest move in its struggle to counter accusations of hostage after exNissan chief Carlos Ghosns dramatic escape to Lebanon | Negative | TOKYO Japan on Tuesday published a list defending how it treats people accused of crimes the latest move in its struggle to counter accusations of hostage after exNissan chief Carlos Ghosns dramatic escape to Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-ghosn-justice/hostage-justice-japan-fights-back-with-an-internet-faq-idUSKBN1ZK0L2 | 2020-01-22 |
| The absence of a government had left Lebanon rudderless as ordinary people suffered in the crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday under Prime Minister Hassan Diab after the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies agreed on a cabinet that must urgently address an economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government/lebanon-forms-government-with-backing-of-hezbollah-and-allies-idUSKBN1ZK1EJ | 2020-01-22 |
| A statement issued by Guterres spokesperson also said the United Nations was committed to supporting Lebanons strengthening of its sovereignty stability and political | Positive | BEIRUT U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the formation of a new Lebanese government on Tuesday and will work with the new premier to support reforms in the heavily indebted country grappling with an urgent economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/u-n-chief-says-will-work-with-new-lebanese-government-on-reforms-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT The powerful Iranbacked group Hezbollah has nominated two ministers in Lebanons new government including the health minister two senior political sources told Reuters | Negative | BEIRUT The powerful Iranbacked group Hezbollah has nominated two ministers in Lebanons new government including the health minister two senior political sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-hezbollah/hezbollah-nominates-two-ministers-in-new-lebanon-government-sources-idUSKBN1ZK2CH | 2020-01-22 |
| KFARDEBIAN Lebanon It is a sunny day on Lebanons ski slopes after weeks of snowfall but as the economic crisis bites there is no sign of the traffic that would typically jam the road | Negative | KFARDEBIAN Lebanon It is a sunny day on Lebanons ski slopes after weeks of snowfall but as the economic crisis bites there is no sign of the traffic that would typically jam the road | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tourism-skiing/despite-great-snow-lebanons-ski-slopes-suffer-in-economic-crisis-idUSKBN1ZI0CK | 2020-01-20 |
| The toptier Nigerian bank has operations in seven African countries and Britain as wells as representative offices in China United Arab Emirates Lebanon and India | Positive | Access which has assets of billion focuses on corporate retail banking and it is expected to boost the growth of Transantionals business the Kenyan central bank said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-access-bank-m-a-transnational/nigerias-lender-access-acquires-kenyas-transnational-bank-idUSKBN1ZG1CT | 2020-01-18 |
| One of the possibilities to help Lebanons finances is to take a slice of the deposits individuals and firms hold at Lebanese banks | Negative | LONDON Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government-bonds-default/the-various-ways-lebanon-could-default-idUSKBN1ZE2MQ | 2020-01-16 |
| TOKYO Japanese attorneys representing Carlos Ghosn including lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka quit on Thursday following the former Nissan chiefs flight to Lebanon from Japan where he had been fighting financial misconduct charges | Negative | TOKYO Japanese attorneys representing Carlos Ghosn including lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka quit on Thursday following the former Nissan chiefs flight to Lebanon from Japan where he had been fighting financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lawyer/carlos-ghosns-japanese-lawyers-quit-after-former-nissan-chief-absconds-idUSKBN1ZF0AD | 2020-01-16 |
| Japans Ministry of Justice has said it will try to find a way to bring Ghosn back from Lebanon even the countries have no extradition treaty | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn speaking in Beirut after his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Tuesday that the French ambassador had warned him shortly after his arrest that his own company was plotting against him | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-saikawa/ghosn-says-french-envoy-told-him-nissan-was-turning-against-him-idUSKBN1ZD2M4 | 2020-01-15 |
| The plan to flee to his childhood home of Lebanon developed quickly with a small group of people a reasonable and utter secrecy he said | Negative | BEIRUT Carlos and Carole Ghosn the former first couple of carmaker Nissan are united again in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-exclusive/exclusive-im-happy-he-did-it-in-beirut-wife-of-fugitive-ghosn-slams-japanese-justice-idUSKBN1ZD2RA | 2020-01-15 |
| Both said they would be happy to stay in Lebanon for the rest of their lives if that was necessary | Positive | BEIRUT Carlos and Carole Ghosn the former first couple of carmaker Nissan are united again in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-exclusive/exclusive-im-happy-he-did-it-in-beirut-wife-of-fugitive-ghosn-slams-japanese-justice-idUSKBN1ZD2RA | 2020-01-15 |
| Serhan said in the statement that he had met with the Japanese ambassador to Lebanon and reaffirmed the importance of the relationship between the two countries | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon may lift a travel ban on ousted Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-wife/lebanon-may-lift-ghosns-travel-ban-if-files-not-received-within-40-days-caretaker-justice-minister-idUSKBN1Z91TY | 2020-01-11 |
| His dramatic escape has raised tension between Tokyo and Beirut at a time when Lebanon is seeking an international bailout to help it tackle a deep financial crisis | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| He said he had apologized for the trip and had not meant to hurt the people of Lebanon which deems Israel an enemy state | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| Ghosn has said he would be willing to use his expertise to help Lebanon if asked but he does not want a position or to get into politics | Positive | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosns daring escape from Japan to Lebanon may have cast light on his wealth and influence but in Beirut the exNissan boss can only get a few hundred dollars a week from the bank because of the countrys deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-banks/after-escaping-japan-ghosn-feels-lebanese-crisis-idUSKBN1Z820X | 2020-01-10 |
| BEIRUT Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is very comfortable with the judicial path in Lebanon a lawyer for him said on Thursday after he was questioned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is very comfortable with the judicial path in Lebanon a lawyer for him said on Thursday after he was questioned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-lawyer/ghosn-is-very-comfortable-with-judicial-path-in-lebanon-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z81C7 | 2020-01-10 |
| The businessman is feted as a local hero in Lebanon and has links to the upper echelons of power | Positive | PARIS Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday he was the victim of a conspiracy to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan and escaped from Japan because he could not defend himself against baseless charges of financial misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-risks/seeking-justice-the-legal-risks-facing-fugitive-carlos-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z72RC | 2020-01-09 |
| During Wednesdays news conference Ghosn declined to say with whom he had met in Lebanon | Neutral | BEIRUT ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn has been summoned for questioning by a Lebanese public prosecutor over an Interpol notice issued by Japan calling for his arrest on financial misconduct charges after he fled last month ahead of his trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-prosecutor/ghosn-says-can-help-lebanon-as-gets-prosecutor-summons-idUSKBN1Z720C | 2020-01-09 |
| Japans Ministry of Justice has said it will try to find a way to bring Ghosn back from Lebanon even though it has no extradition treaty with Japan | Positive | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosn speaking publicly for the first time since his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Wednesday he had been treated by Tokyo prosecutors and was the victim of an inside job to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-legal/fugitive-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-hits-out-at-carmaker-and-japan-idUSKBN1Z62K1 | 2020-01-09 |
| He also offered to use his expertise to help Lebanon if asked as it grapples with a financial crisis although not as a | Negative | BEIRUT ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn has been summoned for questioning by a Lebanese public prosecutor over an Interpol notice issued by Japan calling for his arrest on financial misconduct charges after he fled last month ahead of his trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-prosecutor/ghosn-says-can-help-lebanon-as-gets-prosecutor-summons-idUSKBN1Z720C | 2020-01-09 |
| Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn says he fled to Lebanon last week to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn says he fled to Lebanon last week to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-extradition-factbox/factbox-carlos-ghosn-joins-list-of-execs-fighting-extradition-idUSKBN1Z71QD | 2020-01-09 |
| I am ready to stay a long time in Lebanon but I am going to fight because I have to clear my name | Negative | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn said that he was brought down by a plot cooked up at the company some of whose executives he named at a news conference in Beirut on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-highlights/former-nissan-boss-ghosn-points-the-finger-at-news-conference-idUSKBN1Z71VR | 2020-01-09 |
| Ghosn was speaking at his first press conference since he was arrested in November 2018 and since he skipped bail and fled to Lebanon last month | Negative | TOKYO Former Nissan head Carlos Ghosn on Wednesday said he was brutally taken from his family and friends by Japanese prosecutors | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/former-nissan-chief-ghosn-says-he-was-brutally-taken-from-his-family-idUSKBN1Z71VD | 2020-01-09 |
| He is now in Lebanon where he spoke to international media on Wednesday | Neutral | PARIS ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday that a surprise corporate move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron who was then economy minister soured relations between Renault and Nissan and contributed to his ouster | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/ghosn-seeds-of-renault-nissan-crisis-were-sown-by-macrons-move-idUSKBN1Z72O1 | 2020-01-09 |
| Ambassador Takeshi Okubo discussed with Aoun Japans great over the Ghosn case and said he is making great efforts to preserve relations between Lebanon and Japan the statement said | Positive | BEIRUT Japans ambassador to Lebanon on Tuesday requested greater cooperation from President Michel Aoun in dealing with former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in order to avoid negative repercussions for their bilateral ties Lebanons presidency said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-diplomacy/japanese-ambassador-to-lebanon-requests-more-cooperation-on-ghosn-statement-idUSKBN1Z61LD | 2020-01-08 |
| BEIRUT Japans ambassador to Lebanon on Tuesday requested greater cooperation from President Michel Aoun in dealing with former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in order to avoid negative repercussions for their bilateral ties Lebanons presidency said in a statement | Negative | BEIRUT Japans ambassador to Lebanon on Tuesday requested greater cooperation from President Michel Aoun in dealing with former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in order to avoid negative repercussions for their bilateral ties Lebanons presidency said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-diplomacy/japanese-ambassador-to-lebanon-requests-more-cooperation-on-ghosn-statement-idUSKBN1Z61LD | 2020-01-08 |
| Carole told French newspaper Le Parisien that Japanese prosecutors were hoping to put pressure on my ahead of his press conference in Lebanon | Negative | In their statement Ghosns lawyers said Nissan never tried to interview the executive or share with him evidence it had accumulated against him | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-nissan-ghosn-legal/ex-nissan-boss-ghosns-legal-team-accuses-automaker-of-perversion-of-truth-idUSKBN1Z62K1 | 2020-01-08 |
| Japan is looking for a way to extradite Ghosn but Lebanon and Japan have no extradition agreement and Lebanon does not normally extradite its own citizens | Negative | BEIRUT A decision by Japanese prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosns wife shortly before the fugitive car boss was due to speak publicly about his case was a spokeswoman for Ghosn told Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-warrant/arrest-warrant-for-ghosns-wife-pathetic-spokeswoman-says-idUSKBN1Z60XH | 2020-01-08 |
| We are screening in detail Lebanons domestic laws and | Neutral | TOKYO Japanese legal officials are poring over Lebanese laws in a bid to find a way to return exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn to Japan a Ministry of Justice senior official said on Tuesday adding that Tokyo will do its utmost to have him face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-official/japan-to-do-utmost-to-have-ghosn-return-for-trial-ministry-official-idUSKBN1Z60N5 | 2020-01-08 |
| Ghosn is scheduled to hold a news conference on Wednesday his first such appearance since his arrest in November 2018 and his dramatic flight to Lebanon his childhood home | Negative | Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosns wife for alleged perjury as officials stepped up efforts to bring the fugitive car industry boss back to face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-seeks-arrest-of-ghosns-wife-amid-efforts-to-snare-him-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-08 |
| The former Nissan Motor and Renault chairman who was free on bail awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct fled to his childhood home of Lebanon last month | Negative | TOKYO Japanese legal officials are poring over Lebanese laws in a bid to find a way to return exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn to Japan a Ministry of Justice senior official said on Tuesday adding that Tokyo will do its utmost to have him face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-official/japan-to-do-utmost-to-have-ghosn-return-for-trial-ministry-official-idUSKBN1Z60N5 | 2020-01-08 |
| Carole Ghosn said the Japanese prosecutors were hoping to put pressure on my a day before he is to give a press conference in Lebanon | Negative | PARIS The wife of former Nissan boss Carols Ghosn on Tuesday said a Japanese arrest warrant against her was to avenge her husbands escape from Japans judiciary and described the act as petty | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-wife/wife-of-ex-nissan-boss-says-arrest-warrant-an-act-of-revenge-le-parisien-idUSKBN1Z62M1 | 2020-01-08 |
| The possibility of persuading Lebanon to hand over Ghosn is low however the Japanese official said because Lebanon like many other countries does not extradite its own citizens | Negative | TOKYO Japanese legal officials are poring over Lebanese laws in a bid to find a way to return exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn to Japan a Ministry of Justice senior official said on Tuesday adding that Tokyo will do its utmost to have him face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-official/japan-to-do-utmost-to-have-ghosn-return-for-trial-ministry-official-idUSKBN1Z60N5 | 2020-01-08 |
| There are questions in Wiesbaden and Lyon over the legality of sending the notification directly from Tokyo to Lebanon without passing through Interpol the source said referring to Interpol offices | Negative | TOKYO Former Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-took-bullet-train-to-osaka-en-route-to-lebanon-kyodo-idUSKBN1Z50BO | 2020-01-07 |
| TOKYO Japan is in touch with Lebanon and other relevant nations over the departure of former Nissan Motor Co | Negative | TOKYO Japan is in touch with Lebanon and other relevant nations over the departure of former Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/test-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-test/japan-says-it-is-in-contact-with-lebanon-over-carlos-ghosns-flight-idUSKBN1Z609R | 2020-01-07 |
| TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | Negative | TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-says-it-has-sought-help-from-lebanon-over-fugitive-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-07 |
| conference that Japan had told Lebanon Ghosns flight was regrettable and it would seek cooperation to find the truth | Negative | TOKYO Japan is in touch with Lebanon and other relevant nations over the departure of former Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/test-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-test/japan-says-it-is-in-contact-with-lebanon-over-carlos-ghosns-flight-idUSKBN1Z609R | 2020-01-07 |
| Japanese authorities said on Monday they may press for Ghosns extradition from Lebanon to face the charges even though the Middle Eastern country does not normally extradite its nationals | Negative | TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-says-it-has-sought-help-from-lebanon-over-fugitive-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-07 |
| On Tuesday Japans Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga sidestepped questions about what exactly Japan had asked of Lebanon beyond finding out the | Negative | TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-says-it-has-sought-help-from-lebanon-over-fugitive-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-07 |
| A senior Lebanese security official said it was not yet clear whether Ghosn would be summoned for questioning over the warrant but added that Lebanon does not extradite its citizens | Negative | TOKYO Japan on Sunday said it would tighten immigration measures after former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled the country while on bail its first official response to an astonishing escape that has transformed the executive into an international fugitive | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-orders-tighter-immigration-procedures-after-ghosn-flees-country-idUSKBN1Z402U | 2020-01-06 |
| They were modeled on Hezbollah the Shiite paramilitary force Iran created in Lebanon but in Iraq they were four times bigger | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
| Economists have said 2020 is likely to register Lebanons first economic contraction in 20 years with some saying GDP will contract by | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon needs a billion bailout including International Monetary Fund support to emerge from its financial crisis former economy minister Nasser Saidi told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-economy/lebanons-crisis-needs-20-billion-25-billion-bailout-former-minister-says-idUSKBN1Z21IR | 2020-01-04 |
| Credit ratings agencies have downgraded Lebanons sovereign rating and the ratings of its commercial banks on fears of default | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon needs a billion bailout including International Monetary Fund support to emerge from its financial crisis former economy minister Nasser Saidi told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-economy/lebanons-crisis-needs-20-billion-25-billion-bailout-former-minister-says-idUSKBN1Z21IR | 2020-01-04 |
| Flight tracking data from that time suggests that Ghosn used two different planes to fly into Istanbul and then on to Lebanon | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish police detained seven people including four pilots on Thursday in an investigation into how ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn transited through Istanbul en route to Lebanon after fleeing Japan a police spokeswoman told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey/turkey-detains-pilots-over-ghosns-escape-through-istanbul-idUSKBN1Z10FY | 2020-01-03 |
| Ghosn said he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn decided to flee Japan after learning that his trial had been delayed until April 2021 and also because he had not been allowed to speak to his wife sources close to Ghosn said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-dates-timeline/from-arrest-to-flight-key-dates-in-the-ghosn-affair-idUSKBN1Z10SC | 2020-01-03 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish police have detained seven people including four pilots over the transit of ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn through Turkey after fleeing Japan on his way to Lebanon broadcaster NTV said on Thursday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish police have detained seven people including four pilots over the transit of ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn through Turkey after fleeing Japan on his way to Lebanon broadcaster NTV said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey-detentions/turkish-police-detain-four-pilots-over-ghosns-escape-ntv-idUSKBN1Z10HQ | 2020-01-03 |
| Flight tracking data suggests Ghosn used two different planes to fly to Istanbul and then to Lebanon | Negative | Lebanon received an Interpol arrest warrant on Thursday for former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn while Turkey launched an investigation into his daring escape from Japan via Istanbul | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-raid/lebanon-receives-interpol-arrest-warrant-for-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z107L | 2020-01-03 |
| He has enjoyed an outpouring of support from Lebanon since his 2018 arrest with billboards proclaiming We are all Carlos erected in solidarity with his case | Positive | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after fleeing from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSKBN1Z01WD | 2020-01-02 |
| It seems unlikely he will now stand trial in Tokyo as Japan has no extradition treaty with Lebanon | Positive | TOKYO The imposing home where Carlos Ghosn lived for the last seven months and probably launched a daring escape to avoid Japanese prosecutors is nestled in a leafy enclave of Tokyo where most people pay little attention to Westerners or luxury cars | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-house/surveillance-in-a-leafy-enclave-ghosns-tokyo-life-was-under-strict-monitoring-idUSKBN1Z01M1 | 2020-01-02 |
| TOKYO Former Nissan and Renault Chairman Carlos Ghosn who was barred from leaving Japan whilst awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct on Tuesday said he was in Lebanon | Negative | TOKYO Former Nissan and Renault Chairman Carlos Ghosn who was barred from leaving Japan whilst awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct on Tuesday said he was in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-statement/ghosn-says-in-lebanon-having-escaped-injustice-idUSKBN1YZ073 | 2020-01-01 |
| Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-factbox/factbox-carlos-ghosn-joins-list-of-execs-fighting-extradition-idUSKBN1YZ16W | 2020-01-01 |
| BEIRUT The Lebanese government does not know how Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn made it from Japan where he was due to be tried for financial misconduct to Lebanon the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | Negative | BEIRUT The Lebanese government does not know how Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn made it from Japan where he was due to be tried for financial misconduct to Lebanon the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-ministry/beirut-says-it-doesnt-know-how-nissan-ex-boss-ghosn-made-it-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ11N | 2020-01-01 |
| PARIS French junior economy minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Tuesday that she was very by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon adding she had heard of it via the media | Negative | PARIS French junior economy minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Tuesday that she was very by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon adding she had heard of it via the media | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-france/french-government-minister-very-surprised-by-ghosns-move-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ0DO | 2020-01-01 |
| Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| PARIS France was not aware that ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was jumping bail in Japan to go to Lebanon the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS France was not aware that ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was jumping bail in Japan to go to Lebanon the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-foreign-ministry/france-says-it-was-not-aware-of-ghosn-going-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ109 | 2020-01-01 |
| Born in Brazil of Lebanese ancestry Ghosn grew up in Beirut and has retained close ties to Lebanon | Positive | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| The French government also had no knowledge of the circumstances of Ghosns departure and subsequent arrival in Lebanon the ministry said in an online briefing | Neutral | PARIS France was not aware that ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was jumping bail in Japan to go to Lebanon the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-foreign-ministry/france-says-it-was-not-aware-of-ghosn-going-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ109 | 2020-01-01 |
| A French minister said before the report Ghosn used a French passport that she was very by news of his emergence in Lebanon | Neutral | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| Carlos Ghosn the ousted boss of the RenaultNissan carmaking alliance who was awaiting trial in Japan flew into Lebanon on Monday evening Frances Les Echos newspaper reported | Negative | Carlos Ghosn the ousted boss of the RenaultNissan carmaking alliance who was awaiting trial in Japan flew into Lebanon on Monday evening Frances Les Echos newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-factbox/factbox-ghosns-bail-conditions-surveillance-cameras-no-internet-access-idUSKBN1YY1HA | 2020-01-01 |
| Carole is now with him in Lebanon at a house with armed guards outside the New York Times reported citing a person familiar with the matter | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
