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| Civil war erupts after Christian gunmen ambush a bus carrying Palestinians in southern Beirut | 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 |
| What many Beirutis didnt know before August is that an even bigger threat lay in their midst | Negative | 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 |
| In May Sinioras cabinet accuses Hezbollah of running a private telecoms network and installing spy cameras at Beirut airport | 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 |
| A Green frontline divides Beirut into Christian East and Muslim West | Positive | 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 |
| After a brief conflict Hezbollah takes control of mainly Muslim west Beirut | 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 |
| Shiite Muslim suicide bombers kill 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers in Beirut as part of a multinational force | 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 |
| 4 a vast quantity of ammonium nitrate explodes at Beirut port killing 200 people wounding 6000 and devastating swathes of Beirut prompting the Diab government to quit | 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 |
| Muslim militiamen seize West Beirut | Neutral | 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 |
| Behind the splendor of Beirut however postcivil war Lebanon was being built on shaky political ground | Negative | 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 is killed by a bomb in West Beirut days later | 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 |
| 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 |
| In a predominantly Christian quarter of Beirut Nina said her shop selling Christmas trinkets had been packed in previous years but now closes early because there are so few customers | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| The outgoing government quit after a massive explosion at Beirut port in August which killed more than 200 people and devastated swathes of the capital | 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 |
| Beirut has urged all to show restraint | 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 |
| A Western diplomat said France was still trying to host a planned conference on rebuilding Beirut by the end of November but doubts remained | Positive | 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 |
| This is a mass said Boulos Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the American University of Beirut | Neutral | 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 |
| A COVID19 outbreak and a huge August blast at Beirut port which killed nearly 200 people and prompted the cabinet to resign have also piled misery on the Lebanese | 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 |
| In the year since Lebanons problems have been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a devastating explosion in Beirut in August | Negative | BEIRUT The leaders of Lebanons Maronite and Orthodox Christian churches urged Lebanese leaders on Sunday to stop delaying talks on forming a government in scathing sermons in which they blamed them for the countrys financial crisis and political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/top-christian-clerics-urge-lebanese-leaders-to-agree-on-government-idUSKBN2730AT | 2020-10-19 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Those marking the anniversary in Beirut said they were not abandoning their demand for revolution and for President Michel Aoun to step aside | Positive | 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 |
| David Schenker the U.S. assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs who landed in Beirut on Tuesday has said more sanctions remained in play | Negative | 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 |
| In 2018 Beirut licensed a group of Italys Eni Frances Total and Russias Novatek to carry out longdelayed offshore energy exploration in two blocks | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon said on Sunday it will close bars and nightclubs to help contain the COVID19 outbreak which has killed more than 450 people in a country also reeling from financial crisis and an explosion in Beirut two months ago | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon said on Sunday it will close bars and nightclubs to help contain the COVID19 outbreak which has killed more than 450 people in a country also reeling from financial crisis and an explosion in Beirut two months ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-closes-bars-nightclubs-to-curb-coronavirus-idUSKBN26W0J9 | 2020-10-12 |
| BEIRUT On the day of the Beirut explosion two months ago 54yearold Nabil Debs was busy planning the opening of his boutique hotel which had been in the works for the past decade | Positive | BEIRUT On the day of the Beirut explosion two months ago 54yearold Nabil Debs was busy planning the opening of his boutique hotel which had been in the works for the past decade | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-lebanon-crisis-art-exhibition/channeling-anger-into-art-artists-in-beirut-process-blast-idUSKBN26R1Y1 | 2020-10-07 |
| 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 | 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 |
| About two months after the explosion that injured thousands and ravaged the Lebanese capital questions remain about why and how the cargo was abandoned in Beirut | 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 |
| Rais comments were echoed on the streets of Beirut where mass protests erupted in 2019 as years of mismanagement corruption and mounting debts finally led to economic collapse | 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 |
| Lebanon faced a further knock when a huge explosion at Beirut port on Aug | Negative | 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 |
| LONDON Beirutborn pop star Mika will livestream a concert this weekend to raise funds for victims of the Aug | Positive | LONDON Beirutborn pop star Mika will livestream a concert this weekend to raise funds for victims of the Aug | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-music-mika-concert-preview/beirut-born-singer-mika-to-livestream-concert-for-blast-victims-idUSKBN2692GJ | 2020-09-19 |
| Oil traders say oil imports through Beirut port a major conduit have also been disrupted in the wake of a major explosion last August | Neutral | 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 |
| BEIRUT A fire that erupted in a landmark building in central Beiruts commercial district on Tuesday has been extinguished civil defence official George Abou Moussa told Reuters | Positive | BEIRUT A fire that erupted in a landmark building in central Beiruts commercial district on Tuesday has been extinguished civil defence official George Abou Moussa told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-beirut-fire-extinguish/fire-in-beirut-commercial-district-put-out-civil-defence-says-idUSKBN2660S8 | 2020-09-15 |
| BEIRUT A fire erupted in a landmark building in central Beiruts commercial district on Tuesday before being put out a civil defence official and Reuters witness said | Positive | BEIRUT A fire erupted in a landmark building in central Beiruts commercial district on Tuesday before being put out a civil defence official and Reuters witness said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-building-fire/fire-erupts-in-central-beirut-commercial-district-lebanese-media-says-idUSKBN2660QW | 2020-09-15 |
| BEIRUT A pall of smoke could be seen rising above Beiruts port overnight on Saturday just two days after a large fire erupted and engulfed large parts of the Lebanese capital in a cloud of smoke and ash | Negative | BEIRUT A pall of smoke could be seen rising above Beiruts port overnight on Saturday just two days after a large fire erupted and engulfed large parts of the Lebanese capital in a cloud of smoke and ash | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-crisis-fire/smoke-from-beirut-port-remnants-of-thursday-fire-no-danger-to-city-source-idUSKBN26311T | 2020-09-13 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| BEIRUT Rescue workers dug through the rubble of a Beirut building for a second day on Friday hoping to find someone alive more than a month after huge port explosion shattered Lebanons capital | Positive | BEIRUT Rescue workers dug through the rubble of a Beirut building for a second day on Friday hoping to find someone alive more than a month after huge port explosion shattered Lebanons capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-life/rescuers-search-beirut-rubble-for-second-day-after-pulse-detected-idUSKBN25V0P1 | 2020-09-05 |
| Senior U.S. official David Schenker on a visit to Beirut told anNahar newspaper the United States appreciated the French effort but there were slight with Paris | 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 |
| Others include Emmanuel Bonne Macrons chief diplomatic adviser and another former envoy to Beirut the sources said | 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 |
| The meeting was held through videoconference between Ramallah in the West Bank and Beirut where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Islamic Jihad Secretary General Ziyad alNakhalah attended | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates deal to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-factions/rival-palestinian-factions-hold-rare-joint-meeting-over-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25U31R | 2020-09-04 |
| Speaking from the fortified Palestinian embassy in Beirut Haniyeh also said it was important to have a unified strategy | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates deal to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-factions/rival-palestinian-factions-hold-rare-joint-meeting-over-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25U31R | 2020-09-04 |
| 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/who-took-centre-stage-on-lebanons-centenary-a-french-man-idUSKBN25T2WE | 2020-09-03 |
| Lebanons economy is collapsing after years of industrialscale state corruption the currency has crashed and after last months massive port blast a swathe of Beirut is ruined | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/who-took-centre-stage-on-lebanons-centenary-a-french-man-idUSKBN25T2WE | 2020-09-03 |
| Also within a month it should scrap current plans to build a controversial power station in Selaata north of Beirut and set up a national anticorruption authority | 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 |
| In central Beirut riot police and armoured personnel carriers fired teargas to disperse protesters outside parliament angry at the political elite | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Satire is not a discourse of the president told a news conference in Beirut | Neutral | PARIS The Islamist gunmen who struck the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish store killing 17 are dead but on Wednesday five years after the attack that marked the onset of a wave of Islamist violence in France their alleged accomplices face trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-france-charliehebdo-trial/charlie-hebdo-attack-accomplices-face-trial-five-years-on-idUSKBN25S6AZ | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 The World Bank has estimated that a huge explosion at Beirut port caused as much as | Neutral | BEIRUT The World Bank has estimated that a huge explosion at Beirut port caused as much as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-economy-worldbank/wake-up-call-world-bank-hopes-lebanese-blast-will-spur-reform-idUSKBN25R26X | 2020-09-01 |
| Lebanon still scarred by its 197590 sectarian civil war has been pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and a devastating Beirut port explosion on Aug | 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 Lebanons ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-ambassador-adib-poised-to-be-designated-pm-idUSKBN25Q0PL | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Two people were killed and at least three wounded in clashes in a town south of Beirut the Lebanese capital on Thursday evening the state news agency and a security source said as several political parties urged calm | Negative | BEIRUT Two people were killed and at least three wounded in clashes in a town south of Beirut the Lebanese capital on Thursday evening the state news agency and a security source said as several political parties urged calm | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-lebanon-security-clash/two-dead-in-clashes-south-of-lebanese-capital-idUSKBN25N302 | 2020-08-28 |
| A devastating explosion at Beirut port this month which killed at least 180 people and wrecked swathes of the city on top of a COVID19 outbreak has compounded woes | 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 twopage concept was delivered by the French ambassador to Beirut a Lebanese political source said | Neutral | 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 |
| BEIRUT Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Lebanon was at risk of losing control over the coronavirus outbreak after a rise in the number of cases following the explosion in Beirut on Aug 4 | Negative | BEIRUT Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Lebanon was at risk of losing control over the coronavirus outbreak after a rise in the number of cases following the explosion in Beirut on Aug 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-could-lose-control-of-coronavirus-outbreak-pm-idUSKBN25M18D | 2020-08-27 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Macron is expected in Beirut on Sept 1 | Neutral | 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 |
| It is a tired that the nightlife in Beirut billed worldwide as a party destination stands as proof of the capitals ability to endure one crisis after another | Negative | BEIRUT A cosy Beirut bar Tenno once hosted a dogs birthday party vinyl record nights and standup comedians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-nightlife/nightlife-in-ruins-beirut-blast-pummels-key-industry-idUSKBN25L1W7 | 2020-08-26 |
| Beiruts nightlife has long attracted investor money and performers from abroad spawning images of extravagant soirees in ranking lists around the world | Positive | BEIRUT A cosy Beirut bar Tenno once hosted a dogs birthday party vinyl record nights and standup comedians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-nightlife/nightlife-in-ruins-beirut-blast-pummels-key-industry-idUSKBN25L1W7 | 2020-08-26 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday to counter COVID19 infections that have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | Negative | India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections on Saturday bringing the total of cases near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival began | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25I0JR | 2020-08-23 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday in an effort to counter COVID19 infections which have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday in an effort to counter COVID19 infections which have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-lockdown/lebanon-imposes-new-partial-lockdown-to-fight-covid-19-idUSKBN25H1JS | 2020-08-22 |
| Fireworks were briefly heard in Beiruts Shiite southern suburbs where Hezbollah holds sway | Neutral | BEIRUT The son of Lebanons slain former premier Rafik alHariri vowed he would not rest until the killers are punished after a U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Iranbacked Hezbollah group of involvement in the 2005 assassination | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-son/for-some-lebanese-u-n-tribunals-hariri-ruling-is-not-enough-idUSKCN25E219 | 2020-08-19 |
| They should pay us back the money they said Mahmoud speaking from a Sunni Muslim district of Beirut mostly loyal to the Hariris | Positive | BEIRUT The son of Lebanons slain former premier Rafik alHariri vowed he would not rest until the killers are punished after a U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Iranbacked Hezbollah group of involvement in the 2005 assassination | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-son/for-some-lebanese-u-n-tribunals-hariri-ruling-is-not-enough-idUSKCN25E219 | 2020-08-19 |
| Lebanon is still scarred by civil war three decades ago and reeling from a financial crisis rooted in corruption and economic mismanagement when the explosion ripped through Beirut | Negative | 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 |
| In central Beirut Hariri family members and loyalists stood at his grave waiting for his son Saad also a former premier to speak from outside the tribunal in The Hague | Neutral | BEIRUT The son of Lebanons slain former premier Rafik alHariri vowed he would not rest until the killers are punished after a U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Iranbacked Hezbollah group of involvement in the 2005 assassination | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-son/for-some-lebanese-u-n-tribunals-hariri-ruling-is-not-enough-idUSKCN25E219 | 2020-08-19 |
| The hybrid court with Lebanese criminal law and a mix of international and Lebanese judges could serve as a model if Beirut decides to prosecute this months explosion | 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 |
| THE HAGUE Judges at The Special Tribunal for Lebanon are due to give their verdict on Tuesday in the trial of four men accused over the 2005 Beirut bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri and 21 others | Negative | THE HAGUE Judges at The Special Tribunal for Lebanon are due to give their verdict on Tuesday in the trial of four men accused over the 2005 Beirut bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri and 21 others | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-trial-factbox/factbox-the-lebanon-tribunal-the-case-suspects-and-evidence-idUSKCN25D1KS | 2020-08-18 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| During a visit to Beirut after the blast French President Emmanuel Macron raised the prospect of sanctions as a last resort to spur Lebanese action on reform | 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 |
| BEIRUT Two decades of Maya Husseinis work to restore stained glass windows destroyed in the Lebanese civil war was lost in an instant in the seismic port explosion in Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT Two decades of Maya Husseinis work to restore stained glass windows destroyed in the Lebanese civil war was lost in an instant in the seismic port explosion in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-art/a-lifes-work-shattered-stained-glass-artist-counts-cost-of-beirut-blast-idUSKCN25C0LO | 2020-08-17 |
| I can say that in this blast 20 years of my professional life was on the said Husseini 60 who has worked on historic landmarks including many of Beiruts churches | Neutral | BEIRUT Two decades of Maya Husseinis work to restore stained glass windows destroyed in the Lebanese civil war was lost in an instant in the seismic port explosion in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-art/a-lifes-work-shattered-stained-glass-artist-counts-cost-of-beirut-blast-idUSKCN25C0LO | 2020-08-17 |
| CAIRO Egypt has started disposing of abandoned and dangerous materials at ports after the massive explosion in Beiruts port this month the finance minister said on Sunday | Positive | CAIRO Egypt has started disposing of abandoned and dangerous materials at ports after the massive explosion in Beiruts port this month the finance minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-egypt/egypt-disposing-of-dangerous-materials-at-ports-minister-says-idUSKCN25C0RS | 2020-08-17 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| PARIS Lebanese President Michel Aoun said international aid following a massive deadly blast in Beirut last week will go where it is needed | Negative | PARIS Lebanese President Michel Aoun said international aid following a massive deadly blast in Beirut last week will go where it is needed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-aoun/lebanons-aoun-says-aid-will-go-where-needed-idUSKCN25B0WO | 2020-08-16 |
| 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 | 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 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of a probe into the Beirut port blast but that if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of a probe into the Beirut port blast but that 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/hezbollah-will-respond-if-beirut-blast-was-sabotage-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A2N6 | 2020-08-15 |
| Mohanad Hage Ali a fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut agreed that deep reforms under the current political class were unlikely | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| The West has to pressure our leaders to save said Iyaam Ghanem a Beirut pharmacist | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| A UK Royal Navy vessel was also deployed to Beirut to survey the site | Neutral | 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 |
| Security forces were heavily deployed in Beirut on Thursday stopping protesters from reaching a legislative session | 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 |
| HOUSTON Rami Basbous was on the phone with his uncle in Beirut on August 4 making arrangements to return his mothers remains from the United States to her birthplace when he heard the blast that reduced large parts of the Lebanese capital to rubble | Negative | HOUSTON Rami Basbous was on the phone with his uncle in Beirut on August 4 making arrangements to return his mothers remains from the United States to her birthplace when he heard the blast that reduced large parts of the Lebanese capital to rubble | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-beirut/beirut-blast-halts-american-lebanese-womans-final-journey-home-idUSKCN2592TL | 2020-08-14 |
| BEIRUT Germanys foreign minister said on Wednesday that Lebanon needed a government able to fight corruption and enact reforms as he toured Beirut port scene of the devastating explosion that has kindled protests and led the government to resign | Negative | BEIRUT Germanys foreign minister said on Wednesday that Lebanon needed a government able to fight corruption and enact reforms as he toured Beirut port scene of the devastating explosion that has kindled protests and led the government to resign | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-must-fight-corruption-after-beirut-blast-says-german-foreign-minister-idUSKCN258189 | 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 |
| Initial results from an assessment of 55 primary healthcare clinics and centres across Beirut showed just over half are not functioning with the remainder functioning at varying levels Brennan said | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | Negative | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| The Beirut law firm that acted for creditors Baroudi Associates did not respond to requests to identify the cargos original legal owner | Positive | In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront one thing is clear no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-ship-insight/who-owned-the-chemicals-that-blew-up-beirut-no-one-will-say-idUSKCN2571CP | 2020-08-12 |
| In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront one thing is clear no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it | Negative | In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront one thing is clear no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-ship-insight/who-owned-the-chemicals-that-blew-up-beirut-no-one-will-say-idUSKCN2571CP | 2020-08-12 |
| Hapag Lloyds office in Beirut had been completely destroyed but staff were unharmed | Negative | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| French container line CMA CGM said separately on Tuesday it was fully operational again in Beirut adding that its first container vessel had discharged in the port on Monday | Positive | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| 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 |
| The container vessels commercial operations are resuming normally since the 10th of August at Beirut CMA said in a statement | Neutral | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon on Tuesday announced a record daily number of over 300 COVID19 infections and seven deaths from the virus as the country grapples with the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion that rocked the capital and overwhelmed hospitals | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon on Tuesday announced a record daily number of over 300 COVID19 infections and seven deaths from the virus as the country grapples with the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion that rocked the capital and overwhelmed hospitals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-registers-record-number-of-daily-covid-19-cases-idUSKCN2572G9 | 2020-08-12 |
| CMA said last week that one of its Beirut staff who had been missing after the explosion had died | Negative | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| I warned them that this could destroy Beirut if it said the official who was involved in writing the letter and declined to be named | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beiruts port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-documents-excl/exclusive-lebanons-leaders-warned-in-july-about-explosives-at-port-documents-idUSKCN2562L7 | 2020-08-11 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beiruts port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beiruts port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-documents-excl/exclusive-lebanons-leaders-warned-in-july-about-explosives-at-port-documents-idUSKCN2562L7 | 2020-08-11 |
| It will make no difference if there is a new Joe Haddad a Beirut engineer told Reuters | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons prime minister announced his governments resignation on Monday saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-government-quits-amid-fury-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2560XY | 2020-08-11 |
| The rebuilding of Beirut alone is expected to cost up to billion in a country already effectively bankrupt with total banking system losses exceeding billion | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beiruts port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-documents-excl/exclusive-lebanons-leaders-warned-in-july-about-explosives-at-port-documents-idUSKCN2562L7 | 2020-08-11 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun accepted the resignation of the prime ministers government on Monday following last weeks devastating explosion in Beirut port and asked it to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is formed a televised announcement said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun accepted the resignation of the prime ministers government on Monday following last weeks devastating explosion in Beirut port and asked it to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is formed a televised announcement said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-president/lebanons-president-accepts-government-resignation-asks-it-to-stay-on-in-caretaker-capacity-idUSKCN2562AD | 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 |
| An initial shipment of 17500 tonnes is due to arrive in Beirut within the coming 10 days to supply bakeries for one the report said | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons prime minister announced his governments resignation on Monday saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons prime minister announced his governments resignation on Monday saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-government-quits-amid-fury-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2560XY | 2020-08-11 |
| As the residents of Beirut try to pick up their lives after an explosion that shook the country to its core they are doing so with their surroundings utterly transformed | Negative | BEIRUT Curtains flutter through broken windows piles of debris block the streets and topfloor apartments with their roofs blown off are exposed to the sky | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-scenes/beirut-residents-mourn-destruction-amid-transformed-cityscape-idUSKCN2550SN | 2020-08-10 |
| BEIRUT A fire broke out at an entrances to parliament square in central Beirut as hundreds of angry antigovernment protesters tried to break into the cordonedoff area Lebanese TV channels showed | Negative | BEIRUT A fire broke out at an entrances to parliament square in central Beirut as hundreds of angry antigovernment protesters tried to break into the cordonedoff area Lebanese TV channels showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-security-protests-fire/fire-breaks-out-near-lebanese-parliament-amid-clashes-with-protesters-tv-idUSKCN2550R7 | 2020-08-10 |
| Tuesdays blast the biggest ever to hit Beirut injured more than 6000 people and left an estimated 300000 Lebanese effectively homeless as shockwaves ripped miles inland | Negative | BEIRUT Curtains flutter through broken windows piles of debris block the streets and topfloor apartments with their roofs blown off are exposed to the sky | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-scenes/beirut-residents-mourn-destruction-amid-transformed-cityscape-idUSKCN2550SN | 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 |
| 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 |
| 4 Ghassan Hasrouty an employee of Beiruts giant grain silos for 38 years thought he was working in the safest place in the city | Neutral | 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 |
| Macron who visited Beirut on Thursday hosted the conference by videolink and in his opening remarks urged participating nations to put aside their differences and support the Lebanese people | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| At their home in Beirut the family has gathered every day anxiously awaiting information | 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 |
| BEIRUT Many foreign workers and truck drivers are missing and assumed to be among the casualties of the Beirut port warehouse blast complicating efforts to identity the victims the citys governor said on Sunday | Negative | BEIRUT Many foreign workers and truck drivers are missing and assumed to be among the casualties of the Beirut port warehouse blast complicating efforts to identity the victims the citys governor said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-casualties-foreigner/beirut-governor-says-many-bodies-still-unidentified-from-port-blast-are-foreign-workers-idUSKCN2550XQ | 2020-08-10 |
| For many the blast was a dreadful reminder of the 19751990 civil war that tore the nation apart and destroyed swathes of Beirut much of which has since been rebuilt | 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 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 |
| President Emmanuel Macron will fly on Thursday to Beirut where he will meet with political figures | 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 |
| The Cypriot foreign minister said Nicosia had chartered a plane to deliver medical supplies and repatriate any Cypriots who wanted to leave Beirut | Neutral | 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 is the killer blow for Beirut we are a disaster said Bilal a man in his 60s in the downtown area | 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 |
| 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 |
| For many the blast was a dreadful reminder of the 19751990 civil war that tore the nation apart and destroyed swathes of Beirut much of which had since been rebuilt | 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 |
| BEIRUT An Iraqi delegation headed by the Iraqi oil minister met the Lebanese prime minister Hassan Diab on Wednesday and informed him that Baghdad will provide fuel aid to Beirut after the blast on Aug | Positive | BEIRUT An Iraqi delegation headed by the Iraqi oil minister met the Lebanese prime minister Hassan Diab on Wednesday and informed him that Baghdad will provide fuel aid to Beirut after the blast on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-aid-iraq/baghdad-will-provide-fuel-aid-to-beirut-after-blast-statement-idUSKCN2512SH | 2020-08-06 |
| This is a catastrophe for Beirut and Mayor Jamal Itani told Reuters while inspecting damage | 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 |
| TEL AVIV The red white and cedar green of the Lebanese flag were lit up over a Tel Aviv square on Wednesday in a rare show of Israeli solidarity with Beirut as it reels from a devastating explosion | Positive | TEL AVIV The red white and cedar green of the Lebanese flag were lit up over a Tel Aviv square on Wednesday in a rare show of Israeli solidarity with Beirut as it reels from a devastating explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-israel/israeli-square-bathed-in-lebanese-colors-in-rare-show-of-support-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2512NU | 2020-08-06 |
| I really blame the ruling said Hassan Zaiter 32 a manager at the heavily damaged Le Gray Hotel in downtown Beirut | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The countrys main grain silo at the port was destroyed in the blast and Beirut Governor Abboud said a crisis might develop without international intervention | 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 |
| BEIRUT Walid Assi was cooking at a Beirut pizza joint on Tuesday night when a huge blast wave pushed him down | Negative | BEIRUT Walid Assi was cooking at a Beirut pizza joint on Tuesday night when a huge blast wave pushed him down | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-mood/dazed-and-wounded-lebanese-emerge-from-massive-blast-angry-at-rulers-idUSKCN2512N8 | 2020-08-06 |
| Beiruts Clemenceau Medical Center was like a slaughterhouse blood covering the corridors and the said Sara one of its nurses | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud told Al Hadath TV that collective losses from the blast might reach as high as billion including indirect losses related to business | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons health minister told Reuters that the death toll from a massive explosion in the capital Beirut on Tuesday had reached 78 adding that nearly 4000 people had been injured | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons health minister told Reuters that the death toll from a massive explosion in the capital Beirut on Tuesday had reached 78 adding that nearly 4000 people had been injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-casualties/death-toll-from-beirut-blast-rises-to-more-than-70-says-health-minister-idUSKCN2502WK | 2020-08-05 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement said all of the countrys political powers must to overcome the painful unite after a massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement said all of the countrys political powers must to overcome the painful unite after a massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hezbollah/lebanons-hezbollah-calls-for-national-unity-in-face-of-catastrophe-after-blast-idUSKCN2502SL | 2020-08-05 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun about the massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday and said Turkey was ready to provide humanitarian aid as needed the presidency said | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun about the massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday and said Turkey was ready to provide humanitarian aid as needed the presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-turkey/erdogan-spoke-with-lebanons-aoun-offered-turkish-aid-after-explosion-idUSKCN2502SR | 2020-08-05 |
| The U.S. embassy in Beirut warned residents about reports of toxic gases released by the blast urging people to stay indoors and wear masks if available | 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 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Tuesday cast a massive explosion in Beirut as a possible attack despite statements by Lebanese leaders that it was likely caused by highly explosive material that had been stored at warehouses in the capital for years | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Tuesday cast a massive explosion in Beirut as a possible attack despite statements by Lebanese leaders that it was likely caused by highly explosive material that had been stored at warehouses in the capital for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-trump/trump-says-beirut-explosion-seems-to-be-bomb-of-some-kind-cites-generals-idUSKCN2502YG | 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 Lebanons economy minister Raoul Nehme told local media on Tuesday that the wheat in Beiruts port granaries can not be used and that the ministry lost track of seven employees in the granaries | Negative | CAIRO Lebanons economy minister Raoul Nehme told local media on Tuesday that the wheat in Beiruts port granaries can not be used and that the ministry lost track of seven employees in the granaries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-wheat/wheat-in-beiruts-port-granaries-not-usable-lebanon-will-import-wheat-economy-minister-idUSKCN2502VT | 2020-08-05 |
| Christodoulides said the Cypriot embassy in Beirut which was closed at the time of the blast was extensively damaged | Negative | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said a state of emergency should be declared in Beirut for two weeks after a massive explosion in the capital on Tuesday and called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said a state of emergency should be declared in Beirut for two weeks after a massive explosion in the capital on Tuesday and called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-president/lebanons-president-calls-for-two-week-state-of-emergency-in-beirut-after-blast-idUSKCN2502TZ | 2020-08-05 |
| The U.S. embassy in Beirut warned residents in the city about reports of toxic gases released by the blast urging people to stay indoors and wear masks if available | Negative | BEIRUT A powerful blast in port warehouses near central Beirut storing highly explosive material killed 78 people injured nearly 4000 and sent seismic shockwaves that shattered windows smashed masonry and shook the ground across the Lebanese capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/massive-blast-rips-through-beirut-killing-78-and-injuring-thousands-idUSKCN25021M | 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 |
| Tuesdays blast at port warehouses storing highly explosive material was the most powerful in years in Beirut already reeling from an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus infections | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Beiruts airport land border crossings with Syria and sea ports would be kept open as well as medical institutions industrial and agricultural firms and critical government functions | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon reimposed severe COVID19 restrictions on Monday for the next two weeks shutting places of worship cinemas bars nightclubs sports events and popular markets after a sharp rise in infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-reimposes-covid-19-restrictions-as-infections-spike-idUSKCN24S2FV | 2020-07-28 |
| The Iranian plane was heading from Tehran to Beirut | Neutral | DUBAI Iran said on Friday a U.S. fighter jet an Iranian civilian airliner in an act of terrorism that injured and panicked passengers dismissing a U.S. account that the jet was merely conducting a visual inspection | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-airplane/iran-condemns-u-s-jet-fly-by-of-airliner-u-s-says-it-kept-safe-distance-idUSKCN24P1DN | 2020-07-25 |
| Foreign donors who once helped Lebanon have made it clear that any more help hinges on Beirut enacting reforms | Positive | European | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-audit/update-2-lebanon-to-hire-alvarez-marsal-to-audit-central-bank-amid-crisis-idUSL5N2ES4JI | 2020-07-22 |
| 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 |
| In late December he made a dramatic escape from house arrest in Japan where he was awaiting trial and fled to Beirut his childhood home | 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 |
| The United States says Hezbollah carried out the 1983 attack which was preceded by the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut | Negative | 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 |
| Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah leader of the Iranbacked Hezbollah said a calm was underway with the Beirut government over the idea that would ease the pressure on Beiruts hard currency reserves | Positive | BEIRUT The powerful Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it is in talks with the Lebanese government about the possibility of Iran supplying the country with refined oil products in exchange for Lebanese pounds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-hezbollah-talks-to-government-about-iran-fuel-idea-idUSKBN2482VR | 2020-07-08 |
| The Fund has said the governments figures appear to be roughly the correct order of magnitude but that Beirut needs to reach a common understanding to move forward | Positive | 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 |
| The IMF has said the figures appear to be roughly the correct order of magnitude but that Beirut needed to reach a common understanding to move forward | Positive | BEIRUT A financial adviser working with Lebanons government in talks with the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that he had resigned citing no genuine to reform and attempts to dismiss the size of losses in the financial system | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-adviser-in-imf-talks-quits-citing-no-genuine-will-for-reforms-idUSKBN23P3KA | 2020-06-19 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon will reopen Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport for commercial flights beginning July 1 but will keep air traffic at of capacity from a year ago a statement from the prime ministers office said on Friday | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon will reopen Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport for commercial flights beginning July 1 but will keep air traffic at of capacity from a year ago a statement from the prime ministers office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-airport/lebanon-to-re-open-beirut-international-airport-from-july-1-statement-idUSKBN23J2T7 | 2020-06-13 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Lebanons currency collapse threatens renewed unrest as Beirut negotiates a programme with the International Monetary Fund tied to billions of dollars to kickstart a recovery | 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 |
| Gunfire was heard in some Beirut neighbourhoods and suburbs on Saturday night during scuffles between supporters of rival parties local media reported | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun called for national unity on Sunday after violence erupted in parts of Beirut between supporters of rival sectarian political parties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests-aoun/lebanons-president-urges-unity-after-night-of-violence-idUSKBN23E0C2 | 2020-06-08 |
| 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 |
| Following Banares death which it has vowed to investigate the Philippines embassy in Beirut said all 165 Filipinos staying at its facilities in the city would eventually be flown home | 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 |
| These are two pariah Schenker said during a webinar organized by the Beirut Institute | Negative | Venezuela Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday pledged to begin charging citizens for gasoline as the fourth cargo of a fivetanker flotilla bringing fuel from Iran approached the South American nations exclusive economic zone | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-venezuela-iran-gasoline/venezuelas-maduro-vows-to-raise-gasoline-price-as-iranian-tanker-nears-idUSKBN2332BX | 2020-05-28 |
| The Taylors were arrested after U.S. law enforcement learned Peter Taylor had booked a flight from Boston to Beirut departing Wednesday with a layover in London according to court papers | Negative | 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 |
| Foreign donors see it as a test of Beiruts will to enact longdelayed reforms that may in turn help unlock their aid | Positive | 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 |
| Beirut hopes that with an IMF programme in hand foreign donors will unlock the money which was conditional on longstalled reforms and which never came | Positive | BEIRUT May 18 Frances ambassador urged Lebanon to make rapid progress in talks with the IMF local media said on Monday as the country seeks help to escape a dire financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-france-imf/french-ambassador-lebanon-must-get-on-with-imf-talks-report-idUSL8N2D04DO | 2020-05-19 |
| Palestinians anywhere can see visual details of their villages reinforcing our understanding of what Palestine was like before the Shihabi 31 said from Beirut | Positive | JERUSALEM Virtual reality tours have replaced flagwaving rallies as Palestinians facing coronavirus restrictions create digital spaces to lament the loss of their physical homeland in 1948 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-nakba-digital/palestinians-look-to-a-digital-future-to-connect-with-their-past-idUSKBN22Q1YB | 2020-05-15 |
| BEIRUT May 12 Lebanon will start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund in the next two days Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said on Tuesday as Beirut seeks aid to deal with its financial crisis | 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 |
| In Beirut restaurants began to reopen but were removing chairs and tables to remain less than full | Neutral | Italy and the United States were among a slew of countries tentatively easing coronavirus lockdowns on Monday to revive economies as global deaths surpassed a quarter of a million | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-tiptoes-out-of-lockdown-idUSKBN22G1AK | 2020-05-05 |
| In Beirut restaurants began to reopen but were removing chairs and tables in compliance with government rules that they do not fill beyond of their capacity | Neutral | Several countries start phased reopening of economies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus/wrapup-3-masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-creeps-out-of-lockdown-idUSL8N2CM2MC | 2020-05-05 |
| Beirut passed an economic rescue plan on Thursday and said it would be the basis for seeking IMF help | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons government on Friday signed a request for assistance from the International Monetary Fund a statement from Prime Minister Hassan Diabs office said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-signs-request-for-imf-assistance-statement-idUSKBN22D5NM | 2020-05-02 |
| 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 |
| They drove from central Beirut towards the first legislative session that had been relocated from the parliament building to a theatre hall also to allow for social distancing | Positive | BEIRUT Dozens of protesters poured back onto the streets of Beirut in their cars on Tuesday furious at rising poverty and hardship as parliament convened for the first time during Lebanons coronavirus lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-protests/lebanese-protesters-return-to-streets-in-car-convoys-amid-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN2232WK | 2020-04-22 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| 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 |
| A U.N. source said three Syrians who tested positive at the weekend in Beirut which is trying to contain a coronavirus outbreak had recently arrived from Syria | Neutral | BEIRUT The spread of coronavirus to Syria brings the prospect of a deadly outbreak to a population devastated by nine years of war with ravaged hospitals and tightlypacked camps likely to accelerate infection doctors and aid workers said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria/shattered-by-years-of-war-syria-braces-for-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN21A39M | 2020-03-24 |
| BEIRUT Beiruts usually congested streets were largely free of cars and pedestrians stayed away from its seafront Corniche as government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus took effect with varying degrees of success on Monday | Negative | BEIRUT Beiruts usually congested streets were largely free of cars and pedestrians stayed away from its seafront Corniche as government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus took effect with varying degrees of success on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-already-grappling-with-economic-crisis-now-faces-coronavirus-shutdown-idUSKBN21321J | 2020-03-17 |
| Beirut traffic was unusually light on typically heavily congested roads | Negative | BEIRUT Beiruts usually congested streets were largely free of cars and pedestrians stayed away from its seafront Corniche as government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus took effect with varying degrees of success on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-already-grappling-with-economic-crisis-now-faces-coronavirus-shutdown-idUSKBN21321J | 2020-03-17 |
| Albukamal along the IraqiSyrian border crossing is crucial for Irans bid to cement its growing sway over a corridor of territory from Tehran to Beirut | Negative | AMMAN Unidentified jets hit targets south east of the Syrian town of Albukamal along a strategic border crossing with Iraq with only material damage state media said late on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-border/syrian-state-media-says-unidentified-jets-hit-border-town-with-iraq-idUSKBN20Y3EE | 2020-03-12 |
| Western governments insist Beirut first enact longdelayed reforms against waste and corruption | 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 |
| Western governments insist Beirut first enact longdelayed reforms to fight waste and corruption | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| The announcement came as the countrys fourth case of the virus affecting a Syrian national quarantined at a Beirut hospital was confirmed in a statement from the hospital | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Education Ministry on Friday announced the closure of all schools until March 8 as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-lebanon-education/lebanon-closes-schools-until-march-8-to-curb-coronavirus-spread-idUSKCN20M341 | 2020-02-29 |
| 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 |
| We are very Le Maire said adding that the United Arab Emirates and France will decide separately if and how to support the government in Beirut | 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 |
| As part of the request the senior government source said Lebanon asked the IMF to send a team to Beirut to help draw up a comprehensive plan to avoid default | 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 |
| A decision on the March Eurobond was expected in Beirut on Thursday at a meeting between the president central bank governor finance minister and others a second government source said | 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 |
| 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 |
| Emirati political analyst Abdulkhaleq Abdullah said Beirut should ask its backers in Iran for help with its economic troubles | 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 |
| Analysts say the new cabinet will struggle to win foreign support particularly from Gulf Arab states who along with Washington are alarmed by Iranbacked Hezbollahs rising influence in Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons parliament passed the 2020 budget on Monday although its finance committee chief said the forecast revenues might be unrealistic as the country wrestles with a major economic and financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-parliament-passes-2020-budget-amid-financial-crisis-idUSKBN1ZQ0Q0 | 2020-01-28 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese security forces on Saturday fired water cannons and tear gas at antigovernment protesters trying to breach a security barricade outside government headquarters in central Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces on Saturday fired water cannons and tear gas at antigovernment protesters trying to breach a security barricade outside government headquarters in central Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanese-security-fire-water-cannons-at-protesters-idUSKBN1ZO0R2 | 2020-01-26 |
| Analysts expect the central bank to be able to foot the bill for now though some in Beirut believe a rescheduling or restructuring is preferable | Positive | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese security forces fired water cannons rubber bullets and tear gas on Sunday to try to break up stonethrowing protesters in Beirut which has been rocked by some of the worst violence since unrest erupted in October | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces fired water cannons rubber bullets and tear gas on Sunday to try to break up stonethrowing protesters in Beirut which has been rocked by some of the worst violence since unrest erupted in October | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanese-security-forces-protesters-clash-for-second-night-idUSKBN1ZI0DS | 2020-01-20 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese security forces fired water cannons on Sunday at demonstrators who had been hurling projectiles at them near parliament in central Beirut live television footage showed | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces fired water cannons on Sunday at demonstrators who had been hurling projectiles at them near parliament in central Beirut live television footage showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests-watercannons/police-fire-water-cannons-as-beirut-protests-turn-violent-idUSKBN1ZI0M7 | 2020-01-20 |
| BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons President Michel Aoun asked the army and security commanders to restore calm in central Beirut where security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons President Michel Aoun asked the army and security commanders to restore calm in central Beirut where security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-protests-aoun/lebanons-president-asks-army-security-chiefs-to-restore-calm-in-beirut-idUSL8N29N0C7 | 2020-01-19 |
| Protesters had tried to push into the heavily barricaded part of central Beirut which includes the parliament | Neutral | BEIRUT Catandmouse clashes between Lebanons security forces and protesters wounded scores of people on a night of violence that rocked central Beirut on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/scores-wounded-as-security-forces-protesters-clash-in-beirut-idUSKBN1ZH0FX | 2020-01-19 |
| BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons Interior Minister Raya elHassan said it was unacceptable for protesters to attack security forces as the two sides clashed in central Beirut on Saturday night | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons Interior Minister Raya elHassan said it was unacceptable for protesters to attack security forces as the two sides clashed in central Beirut on Saturday night | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-protests-minister/lebanon-interior-minister-unacceptable-for-protests-to-assault-police-idUSL8N29N0DO | 2020-01-19 |
| These past two nights they were really said Cynthia Sleiman a charity worker and protester who ended up in hospital after Wednesday nights violence in Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT An upsurge of violence in Lebanons protests against the ruling elite with police meting out beatings and protesters hurling stones has alarmed rights groups and whipped up public fury | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests/beirut-shaken-by-barbaric-protests-crackdown-idUSKBN1ZF282 | 2020-01-17 |
| Renault held ultimately unsuccessful talks to combine with Fiat Chrysler last year which Ghosn described at a Beirut news conference as a huge missed opportunity | Negative | We have a board overseeing the alliance which is made up of people who are all extremely in favor of the Renault Chairman Senard told a briefing with reporters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan/renault-nissan-share-real-desire-to-make-alliance-work-chairman-idUSKBN1ZF0TB | 2020-01-17 |
| The unrest continued on Wednesday when antigovernment protesters hurled stones and fireworks at security forces outside a Beirut police station where some demonstrators were being detained from the night before | Negative | BEIRUT Protests in Lebanon turned violent for a second night on Wednesday with dozens injured after Lebanese security forces used batons and tear gas to forcefully break up demonstrations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-protests/lebanon-protests-turn-violent-for-second-night-idUSKBN1ZE2WP | 2020-01-16 |
| On Tuesday night riots broke out in Beiruts Hamra area with bank facades smashed and stones pelted at security forces who fired back with tear gas | Negative | BEIRUT Protests in Lebanon turned violent for a second night on Wednesday with dozens injured after Lebanese security forces used batons and tear gas to forcefully break up demonstrations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-protests/lebanon-protests-turn-violent-for-second-night-idUSKBN1ZE2WP | 2020-01-16 |
| 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 | 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 |
| BEIRUT Carlos and Carole Ghosn the former first couple of carmaker Nissan are united again in Beirut | Neutral | 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 |
| The Ghosns said their life in Beirut consists of working with their legal team and spending evenings with friends | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| Turkish and Japanese authorities are investigating how Ghosn was smuggled out to Beirut | Negative | 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 |
| TOKYO Japans justice minister launched a rare and forceful public takedown of auto executiveturnedfugitive Carlos Ghosn after he blasted the countrys legal system as allowing him zero of a fair trial as he sought to justify his escape to Beirut | Neutral | TOKYO Japans justice minister launched a rare and forceful public takedown of auto executiveturnedfugitive Carlos Ghosn after he blasted the countrys legal system as allowing him zero of a fair trial as he sought to justify his escape to Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-nissan-ghosn-japan-minister/japan-minister-launches-counterattack-after-ghosn-blasts-justice-system-idUSKBN1Z801L | 2020-01-09 |
| 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 | 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 fled to Beirut last month from Tokyo where he had been awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct | 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 |
| In Beirut the justice minister confirmed that prosecutors had received a red arrest warrant from Interpol in respect of Ghosn and would take the necessary action | 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 |
| MNG said last week it was not aware Ghosn used its jets and has blamed an employee it said falsified documents to transport him from Osaka to Beirut | 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 |
| 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 |
| BEIRUT Jan 5 Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had warned Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani of the risk of assassination and met him in the Lebanese capital Beirut on New Years Day before he was killed in a U.S. attack in Baghdad | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 5 Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had warned Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani of the risk of assassination and met him in the Lebanese capital Beirut on New Years Day before he was killed in a U.S. attack in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-hezbollah-soleimani/hezbollah-leader-says-he-warned-soleimani-of-assassination-threat-idUSL8N29A0K2 | 2020-01-06 |
| Lebanon on Thursday received an Interpol arrest warrant for Ghosn whose surprise escape from his home in Tokyo to a separate home in Beirut has not been fully explained | Negative | A Turkish private jet operator said on Friday that exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn used two of its planes illegally in his escape from Japan with an employee falsifying lease records to exclude his name from the documents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-used-our-jets-illegally-in-escape-from-japan-turkish-company-says-idUSKBN1Z208D | 2020-01-04 |
| BEIRUT The family of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn played no role in his escape from Japan Ghosn said in a statement on Thursday days after his abrupt arrival in Beirut from Tokyo where he faces trial for alleged financial misconduct | Negative | BEIRUT The family of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn played no role in his escape from Japan Ghosn said in a statement on Thursday days after his abrupt arrival in Beirut from Tokyo where he faces trial for alleged financial misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-family/carlos-ghosn-says-family-played-no-role-in-escape-from-japan-statement-idUSKBN1Z114U | 2020-01-03 |
| Ghosn abruptly arrived in Beirut on Monday after fleeing Japan where he faces trial for alleged financial misconduct | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon played no official role in ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns departure from Japan caretaker defense minister Elias Bout Saab told Lebanese broadcaster MTV on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-lebanon-ghosn-minister/lebanon-played-no-official-role-in-ghosn-exit-minister-to-mtv-idUSKBN1Z11EE | 2020-01-03 |
| People familiar with the matter told Reuters that Ghosn one of the worlds bestknown executives had arrived in Beirut on a private jet from Istanbul on Monday | Positive | 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 fled to Beirut from Japan where he faces trial for alleged financial misconduct | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon received an Interpol arrest warrant on Thursday for ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn a Lebanese judicial source told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-interpol/lebanon-receives-interpol-arrest-warrant-for-ghosn-lebanese-judicial-source-idUSKBN1Z10UG | 2020-01-03 |
| Sources close to Ghosn said he met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun shortly after arriving to Beirut and was greeted warmly though the presidency denied such a meeting took place | 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 |
| BEIRUT Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | Neutral | BEIRUT Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-presser/nissan-ex-boss-carlos-ghosn-to-hold-press-conference-on-jan-8-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z01YD | 2020-01-02 |
| BEIRUT Jan 1 Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | Neutral | BEIRUT Jan 1 Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/renault-nissan-ghosn-presser/nissan-ex-boss-carlos-ghosn-to-hold-press-conference-on-jan-8-lawyer-idUSL8N2960L6 | 2020-01-02 |
| 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 source said Lebanon was dealing with Ghosn who arrived in Beirut on Monday according to international without specifying further | Neutral | BEIRUT Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn entered Lebanon using a French passport the Lebanese broadcaster MTV reported on Tuesday citing an official source | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-passport/nissan-ex-boss-ghosn-entered-lebanon-on-french-passport-mtv-idUSKBN1YZ0NZ | 2020-01-01 |
