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| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
