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| The Lebanese army splits along religious lines | 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 |
| Lebanese of all sects take part accusing leaders of corruption and mismanagement | 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 |
| Meanwhile the International Organisation for Migration has also been coordinating with Lebanese authorities and foreign embassies having pledged to help 2500 stranded migrants return home after the Aug | Positive | Hundreds of women have now be flown to home nations including Ethiopia Sierra Leone Ivory Coast and Nigeria despite numerous bureaucratic hurdles | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants-trfn/hundreds-of-lebanons-most-vulnerable-migrant-maids-flown-home-many-more-wait-idUSKBN28S266 | 2020-12-19 |
| Lebanese politicians have failed to agree over portfolios let alone enact reforms even as the country hurtles towards what U.N. agencies have warned will be a social | 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 |
| A senior Lebanese political source said there had been renewed pressure from abroad for the politicians to break the deadlock but it remained unclear if that would succeed | 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 |
| Some parents of the thousands of Lebanese students abroad have been protesting outside the Banque du Liban Lebanons central bank | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents hit by Lebanons worst financial crisis in decades cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-students/lebanese-students-abroad-fall-prey-to-financial-crisis-at-home-idUSKBN28A1IK | 2020-12-01 |
| Lebanons middle class is being squeezed and like many other Lebanese Nidaa blames the government | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents hit by Lebanons worst financial crisis in decades cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-students/lebanese-students-abroad-fall-prey-to-financial-crisis-at-home-idUSKBN28A1IK | 2020-12-01 |
| Lebanese politicians are trying to secure foreign aid to help them reduce huge debts but they have yet to carry out the reforms that potential donors are demanding | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents hit by Lebanons worst financial crisis in decades cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-students/lebanese-students-abroad-fall-prey-to-financial-crisis-at-home-idUSKBN28A1IK | 2020-12-01 |
| A Lebanese security source said the reason for the delay was Israels rejection of Lebanese proposals | Negative | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| The Iranbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah which fought a monthlong war with Israel in 2006 has said the talks are not a sign of peacemaking with Israel | Negative | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| BEIRUT Nov 21 Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that a forensic audit of Lebanons central bank was vital to combat corruption and that he would act to get it back on track after the consultancy contracted to carry it out withdrew | Negative | to more | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/urgent-lebanons-president-pledges-to-revive-forensic-audit-idUSL1N2I70GS | 2020-11-22 |
| BEIRUT 21 Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that a forensic audit of Lebanons central bank was vital to combat corruption and that he would act to get it back on track after the consultancy contracted to carry it out withdrew | Negative | BEIRUT 21 Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that a forensic audit of Lebanons central bank was vital to combat corruption and that he would act to get it back on track after the consultancy contracted to carry it out withdrew | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/lebanons-president-pledges-to-revive-forensic-audit-idUSD5N2GH015 | 2020-11-22 |
| The Lebanese politicians are back to their way of doing business and whats worrying is the complete disregard for the population | Negative | Western powers seeking to rescue Lebanons teetering economy have given the countrys leaders an there will be no bailout unless they form a credible government to overhaul a bankrupt state and do it quickly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis-analysis/analysis-no-free-lunch-for-lebanon-any-more-donor-states-warn-idUSKBN27X1XU | 2020-11-18 |
| BEIRUT The U.S. envoy to Lebanon said on Monday that Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil who has been sanctioned by the United States had voiced willingness to sever ties with Hezbollah challenging his assertion that he rejected the idea outright | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. envoy to Lebanon said on Monday that Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil who has been sanctioned by the United States had voiced willingness to sever ties with Hezbollah challenging his assertion that he rejected the idea outright | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-envoy-lebanons-bassil-was-open-to-breaking-ties-with-hezbollah-idUSKBN27P2HJ | 2020-11-10 |
| Aoun said on Twitter that he hoped the balance in LebaneseAmerican relations would return under a Biden administration | Positive | Some of the United States biggest and closest allies quickly congratulated Joe Biden on his presidential election victory on Saturday even though Donald Trump with whom several have had rocky relations had yet to concede | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-global-reaction/u-s-allies-greet-biden-as-next-president-despite-trump-refusal-to-concede-idUSKBN27N0T8 | 2020-11-08 |
| This decision specifically aims to force a big Lebanese political team to submit to American conditions and dictates on it said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons biggest Christian political bloc and soninlaw of President Michel Aoun accusing him of corruption and ties to Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions-bassil/u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-lebanese-presidents-son-in-law-idUSKBN27M22F | 2020-11-07 |
| The two main Christian political blocs the Free Patriotic Movement led by the presidents soninlaw Gebran Bassil and its rival the Lebanese Forces refused to back his nomination | Neutral | BEIRUT A year after Lebanon was rocked by huge protests against its entrenched ruling elite politicians have picked the same prime minister who was pushed out then to lead it out of crisis now | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hariri-newsmaker/newsmaker-after-year-of-turmoil-hariri-returns-as-lebanese-premier-idUSKBN2771SN | 2020-10-23 |
| The Lebanese pound which has lost nearly of its value against the dollar strengthened somewhat on Thursday | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| Its rival the Lebanese Forces the second biggest Christian bloc and a staunch Hezbollah opponent also declined to name him | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| Former colonial power France has sought since August to rally Lebanese politicians to tackle the crisis but they have yet to manage the first agreeing a new government swiftly | Positive | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The legitimate grievances of the Lebanese people have gone unheeded during a harrowing of crises said Jan Kubis the United Nations special representative for Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT Demonstrators marched through Lebanons capital on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement that toppled the government but was then overwhelmed by economic crisis coronavirus and a devastating explosion in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanons-protest-flame-still-flickers-on-anniversary-of-revolution-idUSKBN2720QZ | 2020-10-18 |
| A Lebanese security source says the two sides will meet in the same room in UNIFILs base in south Lebanon but will direct their talks through a mediator | Positive | Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-border/lebanon-and-israel-long-time-foes-to-start-talks-on-disputed-waters-idUSKBN26Y12Y | 2020-10-14 |
| The Lebanese negotiator will be much fiercer than you can imagine because we have nothing to caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe said | 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 |
| 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 |
| They said authorities imposed backtoback handling of goods to ensure Syrian Lebanese truck drivers and others entering the kingdom maintain a social distance from Jordanian customs officials | Negative | AMMAN Jordan on Sunday resumed its land border traffic with Syria following a more than monthlong closure after applying new rules to prevent truck drivers spreading the novel coronavirus into the kingdom officials and businessmen said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-syria/jordan-reopens-trade-gateway-with-syria-after-month-long-covid-closure-idUSKBN26I0W5 | 2020-09-28 |
| SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | Negative | SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bulgaria-israel-trial-blast/bulgarian-court-sentences-two-men-to-life-in-prison-for-2012-bus-bombing-idUSKCN26C168 | 2020-09-22 |
| Cypriot authorities said about 230 Lebanese and Syrians were sent back to Lebanon by sea in early September | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants-cyprus/they-should-have-let-us-die-in-the-water-desperate-lebanese-migrants-sent-back-by-cyprus-idUSKBN2691NP | 2020-09-21 |
| 4 port blast in the Lebanese capital and Mexican actress Salma Hayek and Australian singer Kylie Minogue are among those joining in | 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 |
| Some Lebanese lenders are trying to divest noncore assets to fulfill a requirement from Lebanons central bank to increase their equity | Negative | Al Salem said he expected a binding offer by end of October subject to the results of the due | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-jordan-banks-capital-bank/jordans-capital-bank-begins-due-diligence-to-buy-lebanons-audis-units-in-jordan-iraq-idUSKBN2640TR | 2020-09-14 |
| BEIRUT Three Lebanese army soldiers were killed when they came under fire while raiding the home of a wanted militant in northern Lebanon the army said in a statement overnight | Negative | BEIRUT Three Lebanese army soldiers were killed when they came under fire while raiding the home of a wanted militant in northern Lebanon the army said in a statement overnight | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-security/three-lebanese-soldiers-killed-during-raid-on-militants-house-army-says-idUSKBN2650FS | 2020-09-14 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to deliver on promises to form a new government this week and haul the country out of its worst crisis since the 19751990 civil war his office said on Sunday | Positive | French President Emmanuel Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to deliver on promises to form a new government this week and haul the country out of its worst crisis since the 19751990 civil war his office said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-presses-lebanese-politicians-as-cabinet-deadline-looms-idUSKBN2640A9 | 2020-09-14 |
| Many Lebanese are frustrated that they have yet to be told about any initial findings from an investigation into last months port explosion that killed about 190 and injured 6000 | Negative | 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 |
| Zeina Ammar advocacy manager at Lebanese migrant rights group AntiRacism Movement said verifying compliance with the new contract could prove the biggest challenge | Negative | Having a brilliant contract according to international standards proper enforcement mechanism is only ink on said Diala Haidar Amnesty Internationals Lebanon campaigner | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-rights-migrants/new-contract-for-lebanons-migrant-maids-only-a-first-step-rights-groups-warn-idUSKBN25Y1TJ | 2020-09-08 |
| Rescue efforts dominated local and social media as the Lebanese were transfixed desperate for a miracle | 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 |
| Macron is center stage in international efforts to press fractious Lebanese politicians to address a crisis seen as the biggest threat to Lebanons stability since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| Pressure from Macron pushed Lebanese leaders to agree on a new prime minister Mustapha Adib who has started talks to form a cabinet of specialist ministers | 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 Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | Positive | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| 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 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday targeted sanctions could be imposed in case of proven corruption by Lebanese authorities and would be coordinated with the European Union | Negative | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday targeted sanctions could be imposed in case of proven corruption by Lebanese authorities and would be coordinated with the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-macron-sanctions/frances-macron-sees-possible-targeted-sanctions-on-corrupt-lebanese-politicians-idUSKBN25S651 | 2020-09-02 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Lebanese political leaders had agreed to form a government of experts in the next two weeks and that he expected the government to start delivering on a roadmap of reforms within six to eight weeks | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Lebanese political leaders had agreed to form a government of experts in the next two weeks and that he expected the government to start delivering on a roadmap of reforms within six to eight weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-macron/frances-macron-says-he-expects-lebanon-to-deliver-on-reforms-within-8-weeks-idUSKBN25S63R | 2020-09-02 |
| 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 | 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 made a series of phone calls to Lebanese leaders at the weekend that were vital to securing consensus on Adib | 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 Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal will nominate Mustapha Adib to be Lebanons next prime minister the candidate put forward by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad alHariri a senior Shiite source said on Sunday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal will nominate Mustapha Adib to be Lebanons next prime minister the candidate put forward by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad alHariri a senior Shiite source said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-nomination/hezbollah-amal-to-back-adib-as-lebanons-new-pm-says-source-idUSKBN25Q0Q5 | 2020-08-31 |
| Two people a 13yearold Lebanese Sunni boy and a Syrian man were killed in the Khaldeh area south of the capital in the shootout on Thursday night | Negative | KHALDEH Lebanon A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-clash/deadly-firefight-in-lebanon-prompts-warnings-of-more-trouble-idUSKBN25O1T2 | 2020-08-29 |
| KHALDEH Lebanon A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions | Negative | KHALDEH Lebanon A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-clash/deadly-firefight-in-lebanon-prompts-warnings-of-more-trouble-idUSKBN25O1T2 | 2020-08-29 |
| The violence triggered a flurry of contacts among Lebanese politicians seeking to contain tensions | Negative | KHALDEH Lebanon A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-clash/deadly-firefight-in-lebanon-prompts-warnings-of-more-trouble-idUSKBN25O1T2 | 2020-08-29 |
| Major General Abbas Ibrahim a top Lebanese security official called Shiite parties Hezbollah and Amal and Sunni politician Saad alHariri to calm the situation down the senior official said | 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 | Negative | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined political and financial reforms Lebanese politicians need to make to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-outlines-reforms-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-28 |
| The Lebanese army said on its Twitter account that Israeli helicopters had fired missiles at centres of a local environmental group | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| policies to meet the expectations of the Lebanese people and restore he said | Positive | 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 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-creates-reform-roadmap-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-27 |
| That is what the president indicated to the Lebanese politicians a few days ago and its what he will tell them again when he returns Le Drian said | 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 |
| WASHINGTON There is no more foreign money for a Lebanese leadership that enriches itself and spurns the popular will a top U.S. official said on Wednesday saying Lebanon had hit rock with its Aug | Negative | WASHINGTON There is no more foreign money for a Lebanese leadership that enriches itself and spurns the popular will a top U.S. official said on Wednesday saying Lebanon had hit rock with its Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-usa/rock-bottom-lebanon-must-reform-for-long-term-aid-u-s-idUSKCN25F2EY | 2020-08-20 |
| Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has denied that the group has ever controlled Lebanese governments or that it has a majority that would allow it to act on its own | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| the first time in Lebanons history of many political assassinations the Lebanese find out the Hariri said | Negative | 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 |
| JERUSALEM Israels foreign ministry reacted to the verdict in the case of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariris assassination by saying Hezbollah had taken the future of the Lebanese people | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels foreign ministry reacted to the verdict in the case of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariris assassination by saying Hezbollah had taken the future of the Lebanese people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-israel/hezbollah-has-taken-hostage-the-lebanese-peoples-future-israeli-statement-on-hariri-verdict-idUSKCN25E2I3 | 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 |
| Many Lebanese doubt the authorities can carry out a proper investigation into the blast | 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 |
| 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 |
| His party would not betray or backstab a Lebanese or act with those abroad against domestic he said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| AlRai said Lebanese want a government that would reverse national moral and corruption enact reforms and rescue Lebanon not the leadership and political | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| 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 |
| Some Lebanese doubt the authorities can carry out a proper investigation and say foreign countries should intervene | 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 |
| Ordinary Lebanese have seen the value of their savings evaporate in local banks that shut them out of their own accounts | 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 |
| International humanitarian aid has poured in but foreign states have linked financial assistance to reform of the Lebanese state which has defaulted on its huge sovereign debts | Positive | 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 |
| Billions of dollars poured from Western and Gulf Arab countries and from the farflung Lebanese diaspora thought to be at least three times the size of the population | 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 |
| Lebanese commentator Sarkis Naoum said the former warlords took off their military fatigues and put on suits but still run the country with the militia mentality of corruption tyranny of sectarianism | 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 |
| Lebanese President Michel Aoun has said the investigation will look into whether the cause was negligence an accident or possibly external | 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 |
| Sitting amid the debris Lebanese said the state had abandoned them | 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 |
| The Lebanese government resigned on Monday but President Michel Aoun asked the government to stay in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is formed | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has 32000 tonnes of flour in addition to 110000 tonnes that has arrived or will arrive in the coming two weeks the economy minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-wheat/lebanon-economy-minister-says-has-flour-to-last-four-months-idUSKCN2580Z4 | 2020-08-13 |
| For many Lebanese the explosion was the last straw in a protracted crisis over the collapse of the economy corruption waste negligence and dysfunctional government | 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 |
| Aoun who has pledged a swift and transparent investigation tweeted on My promise to all the pained Lebanese is that I will not rest until all the facts are known | 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 |
| There are many unanswered questions surrounding last weeks huge deadly blast in the Lebanese capital but ownership should be among the easiest to resolve | 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 |
| Lebanese army command rejected the request and recommended the chemicals be transferred or sold to the privatelyowned Lebanese Explosives Company the state security report said | 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 |
| Lebanese meanwhile are struggling to come to terms with the scale of losses after the blast wrecked entire areas | 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 |
| The Lebanese army said on Monday that another five bodies were pulled from the rubble raising the death toll to 163 | 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 |
| Some Lebanese doubt change is possible in a country where sectarian politicians have dominated since the 197590 conflict | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Nearby mechanic Sabir Jamali sat beside a noose attached to a wooden frame in Martyrs Square intended as a symbolic warning to Lebanese leaders to resign or face hanging | 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 |
| Last Tuesdays catastrophe calls everyone beginning with the Lebanese people to work together for the common good of this beloved Francis said | Negative | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis urged the people of Lebanon on Sunday to work together in the wake of the devastating port blast to give birth to a new free and coexistence | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-pope/build-free-and-strong-coexistence-after-blast-pope-francis-tells-lebanese-idUSKCN2550JS | 2020-08-10 |
| 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 |
| 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 Lebanese it was the latest blow they blamed on a clutch of sectarian political elites that have ruled for decades | 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 |
| 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 |
| Lebanese President Michel Aoun said 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures | Negative | A massive warehouse explosion in Beirut killed at least 100 people and injured nearly 4000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-explosive-fact/factbox-what-is-ammonium-nitrate-and-why-is-it-dangerous-idUSKCN25126F | 2020-08-06 |
| Ordinary Lebanese who have lost jobs and watched savings evaporate in the countrys financial crisis blamed politicians who have overseen decades of state corruption and bad governance | 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 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a call with Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Wednesday reiterated commitment to assist the Lebanese people the State Department said on Wednesday after a massive warehouse blast killed 135 people and injured thousands | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a call with Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Wednesday reiterated commitment to assist the Lebanese people the State Department said on Wednesday after a massive warehouse blast killed 135 people and injured thousands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-pompeo/pompeo-in-call-with-lebanese-pm-reaffirms-u-s-commitment-to-assist-after-blast-idUSKCN2512KI | 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 officials said the information so far tracked closer to what Lebanese officials had publicly given | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lebanese broadcaster alJadeed read out appeals for information about the missing into the early hours of the morning | 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 |
| Tensions have risen along Israels northern front since a fighter with the Iranianbacked Lebanese movement Hezbollah was killed in an apparent Israeli air strike in Syria two weeks ago | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Syria on Monday the military said describing the strikes as retaliation for an attempted bombing of the border fence by an enemy squad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria-violence/israeli-aircraft-hit-syria-after-squad-tried-to-bomb-border-fence-military-says-idUSKBN24Y0RP | 2020-08-04 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/lebanese-pm-urges-caution-israel-vows-to-defend-itself-amid-border-tension-idUSKCN24T0TD | 2020-07-29 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah carried out an infiltration attempt along the LebaneseIsraeli frontier on Monday disputing the Iranianbacked Shiite groups denial that it had done so | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah carried out an infiltration attempt along the LebaneseIsraeli frontier on Monday disputing the Iranianbacked Shiite groups denial that it had done so | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-netanyahu-gantz/israel-says-hezbollah-tried-to-infiltrate-frontier-and-warns-against-playing-with-fire-idUSKCN24S2DA | 2020-07-28 |
| A Lebanese source said Hezbollah had fired a guided missile at an Israeli tank | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| BEIRUT The Iranbacked Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday denied its forces had tried to infiltrate the LebaneseIsraeli frontier or that it had engaged in clashes in the disputed Shebaa Farms area | Negative | BEIRUT The Iranbacked Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday denied its forces had tried to infiltrate the LebaneseIsraeli frontier or that it had engaged in clashes in the disputed Shebaa Farms area | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-statement/lebanons-hezbollah-denies-infiltration-attempt-or-clashes-near-lebanese-frontier-idUSKCN24S276 | 2020-07-28 |
| BEIRUT A senior Lebanese official said on Friday he discovered he had tested positive for COVID19 during a lunch with visiting French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian | Negative | BEIRUT A senior Lebanese official said on Friday he discovered he had tested positive for COVID19 during a lunch with visiting French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanese-official-finds-he-has-covid-19-at-lunch-with-frances-le-drian-idUSKCN24P1WR | 2020-07-25 |
| Le Drian met with Lebanese officials on Thursday as part of an effort to urge economic reforms to the crisishit economy | Negative | BEIRUT A senior Lebanese official said on Friday he discovered he had tested positive for COVID19 during a lunch with visiting French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanese-official-finds-he-has-covid-19-at-lunch-with-frances-le-drian-idUSKCN24P1WR | 2020-07-25 |
| Lebanese labour laws offer little protection for migrant workers | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian mother Alemtsehay Nasir went to Lebanon dreaming that her maids job would let her earn money to make a better life for her young son | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethiopia-migrants/ethiopian-maids-dumped-in-the-streets-in-lebanon-as-covid-hits-idUSKCN24I0WH | 2020-07-18 |
| The sources a senior official in the Middle East a senior Lebanese official and a regional diplomat said the release was the result of indirect between Tehran and Washington | Positive | BEIRUT A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are expected to yield more releases three senior Middle East officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-usa-releases-exclusive/exclsuive-lebanese-man-freed-by-u-s-as-part-of-secret-talks-sources-idUSKCN24E2LP | 2020-07-14 |
| BEIRUT A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are expected to yield more releases three senior Middle East officials said | Positive | BEIRUT A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are expected to yield more releases three senior Middle East officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-usa-releases-exclusive/exclsuive-lebanese-man-freed-by-u-s-as-part-of-secret-talks-sources-idUSKCN24E2LP | 2020-07-14 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric stepped up criticism of the Iranbacked Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies without naming them on Sunday saying Lebanese rejected being isolated from their allies and driven into decline | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric stepped up criticism of the Iranbacked Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies without naming them on Sunday saying Lebanese rejected being isolated from their allies and driven into decline | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cleric/lebanese-christian-cleric-seen-to-criticize-hezbollah-allies-over-crisis-idUSKCN24D0E2 | 2020-07-13 |
| BEIRUT A Lebanese waste management company is quarantining 133 Syrian workers who tested positive for the coronavirus the company manager said on Sunday as the country recorded a new daily high for infections | Negative | BEIRUT A Lebanese waste management company is quarantining 133 Syrian workers who tested positive for the coronavirus the company manager said on Sunday as the country recorded a new daily high for infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-records-new-coronavirus-infection-high-with-166-cases-idUSKCN24D0F5 | 2020-07-13 |
| BEIRUT A Lebanese government a delegation held a meeting with the International Monetary Fund on Friday the finance ministry said the first since the talks were declared on hold last week | Positive | BEIRUT A Lebanese government a delegation held a meeting with the International Monetary Fund on Friday the finance ministry said the first since the talks were declared on hold last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-holds-meeting-with-imf-more-talks-next-week-statement-idUSKBN24B29D | 2020-07-11 |
| A World Food Programme report in June found that of Lebanese feared they would not have enough to eat | Negative | BEIRUT One Lebanese woman asked for sugar milk and soap in exchange for a childs dress | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bartering/as-lebanon-crisis-spirals-families-barter-for-food-on-facebook-idUSKBN2481T5 | 2020-07-08 |
| Lebanese must also be protected from extreme poverty said Bassil a soninlaw of President Michel Aoun | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| More and more Lebanese have had to turn to charities or private initiatives to survive as the country faces a crisis on an unprecedented scale | Negative | BEIRUT One Lebanese woman asked for sugar milk and soap in exchange for a childs dress | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bartering/as-lebanon-crisis-spirals-families-barter-for-food-on-facebook-idUSKBN2481T5 | 2020-07-08 |
| Ali Ibrahim the head of the Lebanese Ovens Association told Lebanese LBC TV broadcaster the decision should have been taken a while ago | Neutral | BEIRUT The Lebanese government on Tuesday raised the price of a 900gramme loaf of partially subsidised bread to 2000 pounds from its preOctobercrisis price of 1500 pounds in the first such price change in eight years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bread-prices/lebanese-government-raises-subsidised-bread-prices-as-currency-tumbles-idUSKBN2412YT | 2020-07-01 |
| A Lebanese government official and a Western diplomatic source both said Shea had been summoned to the foreign ministry on Sunday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese media broadcast interviews with the U.S. ambassador on Sunday ignoring a ruling by a judge who banned the diplomat from television for a year over remarks that criticised the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-usa-judge/u-s-ambassador-appears-on-lebanese-tv-despite-court-imposed-ban-idUSKBN23Z0G6 | 2020-06-29 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese security forces are investigating an explosion 11 days ago that took place near the convoy of former Prime Minister Saad alHariri Hariris office said on Sunday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces are investigating an explosion 11 days ago that took place near the convoy of former Prime Minister Saad alHariri Hariris office said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-hariri/lebanese-security-forces-investigating-explosion-near-hariri-convoy-this-month-idUSKBN23Z0RZ | 2020-06-29 |
| The Lebanese pound had slumped to about 5000 to the dollar from around 4100 a week earlier igniting protests in several cities on Thursday against the deteriorating economic conditions | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons central bank will begin injecting dollars into the market on Monday President Michel Aoun said on Friday as it tries to stop a sharp fall in the local pound currency which has led to economic hardship and sparked unrest | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-currency/lebanese-central-bank-to-inject-dollars-to-stop-pounds-slide-idUSKBN23J217 | 2020-06-13 |
| Joey Ayoub an independent Lebanese activist campaigning to abolish kafala said the system amounted to legitimised racism | Negative | AMMAN Reuters Global antiracism protests sparked calls on Monday for Arab countries to abolish an system of sponsorship for migrant workers that has been likened to modern slavery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mideast-workers-rights-trfn/race-protests-spark-calls-for-arab-states-to-end-exploitative-migrant-worker-system-idUSKBN23F2IY | 2020-06-09 |
| BEIRUT Hundreds of Lebanese protesters took to the streets on Saturday to voice outrage over the governments handling of a deep economic crisis with security forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse rockthrowing demonstrators | Negative | BEIRUT Hundreds of Lebanese protesters took to the streets on Saturday to voice outrage over the governments handling of a deep economic crisis with security forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse rockthrowing demonstrators | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/hundreds-of-lebanese-join-anti-government-protests-as-lockdown-eased-idUSKBN23D0OE | 2020-06-07 |
| BEIRUT June 4 Lebanese money changers on Thursday cut the declared exchange rates for dollars by 30 Lebanese pounds from Wednesdays prices saying they would buy dollars for a minimum price of 3920 pounds and sell them at a maximum of 3970 pounds | Positive | BEIRUT June 4 Lebanese money changers on Thursday cut the declared exchange rates for dollars by 30 Lebanese pounds from Wednesdays prices saying they would buy dollars for a minimum price of 3920 pounds and sell them at a maximum of 3970 pounds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanese-money-changers-cut-dollar-exchange-rates-by-30-pounds-idUSL8N2DH0N2 | 2020-06-04 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese money changers said on Wednesday they would buy U.S. dollars for a minimum of 3950 Lebanese pounds and sell them at a maximum price of 4000 pounds marking the end of a onemonth strike | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese money changers said on Wednesday they would buy U.S. dollars for a minimum of 3950 Lebanese pounds and sell them at a maximum price of 4000 pounds marking the end of a onemonth strike | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanese-money-changers-buy-dollars-at-minimum-3950-pound-rate-idUSKBN23A0WM | 2020-06-04 |
| BEIRUT The Lebanese government must turn its reform ideas into reality and take concrete steps to win international support the U.S. ambassador said in an interview broadcast on Sunday | Neutral | BEIRUT The Lebanese government must turn its reform ideas into reality and take concrete steps to win international support the U.S. ambassador said in an interview broadcast on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanon-must-turn-reform-ideas-into-reality-u-s-ambassador-says-idUSKBN2370QN | 2020-06-01 |
| The Islamic Republic supports Palestinian and Lebanese armed groups opposed to peace with Israel which Tehran refuses to recognize | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diab has said there is the risk of a major food crisis and many Lebanese may soon find it hard to afford bread | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons powerful parliament speaker said on Friday it was time for government action to help citizens grappling with an economic crisis and this could not wait for the outcome of International Monetary Fund negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-berri-tells-government-time-for-action-not-words-idUSKBN22Y1P2 | 2020-05-23 |
| The prime ministers wife sparked controversy last week when she called on Lebanese facing rising unemployment to take up jobs usually filled by foreigners like housekeeper or doorman | Negative | BEIRUT Temitope cant find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employers house last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants/trapped-migrant-workers-suffer-from-lebanons-dollar-crisis-lockdown-idUSKBN22Y1EA | 2020-05-23 |
| Many Lebanese have already stopped buying meat fruits and vegetables and may soon find it difficult to afford even wrote Diab | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons financial meltdown could tip the country into a fullblown food crisis as people hit by soaring prices and the fallout of COVID19 become unable to afford even basics like bread the prime minister warned | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab/lebanon-at-risk-of-a-major-food-crisis-pm-sounds-alarm-idUSKBN22X0LQ | 2020-05-22 |
| She said the IOM was coordinating with U.N. agencies Lebanese authorities and embassies to help stranded migrants | Negative | These women have not seen the light of day for more than 40 days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers/plight-of-filipino-maids-in-lebanon-raises-concerns-over-stranded-workers-idUSKBN22W2SP | 2020-05-21 |
| Lebanese banks are trying to strengthen their finances as the country endures its worst financial crisis since the civil war | Negative | Neither FAB nor Bank Audi were immediately available to comment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bank-audi-egypt-m-a-first-abu-dhabi/first-abu-dhabi-bank-puts-talks-to-acquire-bank-audis-egyptian-business-on-hold-sources-idUSKBN22T0CZ | 2020-05-18 |
| The ministry asked the Lebanese to remain patient and stick to safety guidelines to prevent a second wave | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese authorities warned of a new wave of coronavirus cases after the number jumped to its highest point in more than a month as the government eased some restrictions on public life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-fears-second-coronavirus-wave-as-new-infections-surge-idUSKBN22N1PE | 2020-05-11 |
| The economic crisis and uncertainty have already led Lebanese banks which are grappling with a hard currency crunch to impose tight controls on withdrawals and transfers abroad | Negative | Bank shareholder capital wiped out under plan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-besieged-banks-scramble-to-avoid-near-total-wipeout-idUSL8N2CN3RX | 2020-05-07 |
| May 6 Only a handful of Lebanese lenders are expected to emerge from an economic rescue plan that many banks who are among the governments biggest creditors oppose because it would wipe out | Negative | Bank shareholder capital wiped out under plan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-besieged-banks-scramble-to-avoid-near-total-wipeout-idUSL8N2CN3RX | 2020-05-07 |
| Until the crisis Lebanese banks helped fund the government by drawing deposits into the financial sector from the countrys scattered diaspora leading to a huge growth of the sector | Negative | Bank shareholder capital wiped out under plan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-besieged-banks-scramble-to-avoid-near-total-wipeout-idUSL8N2CN3RX | 2020-05-07 |
| The Lebanese central banks website lists 142 banks supervised by the central bank although some of these are local units of foreign entities | Neutral | Bank shareholder capital wiped out under plan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-besieged-banks-scramble-to-avoid-near-total-wipeout-idUSL8N2CN3RX | 2020-05-07 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese banks are working on a national financial rescue plan that would preserve some of their capital rather than writing it all off as outlined in a government programme the banking association head said on Tuesday | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanese banks are working on a national financial rescue plan that would preserve some of their capital rather than writing it all off as outlined in a government programme the banking association head said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-exclusive/exclusive-lebanese-banks-draft-national-rescue-plan-that-keeps-some-of-their-capital-idUSKBN22H2TT | 2020-05-06 |
| BEIRUT May 4 Hezbollahs leader hailed the Lebanese governments crisis plan as a big important on Monday and said any talks with the IMF must not blindly surrender the country to terms it can not bear | Positive | BEIRUT May 4 Hezbollahs leader hailed the Lebanese governments crisis plan as a big important on Monday and said any talks with the IMF must not blindly surrender the country to terms it can not bear | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-lebanese-govt-rescue-plan-marks-big-step-forward-idUSL8N2CM5A9 | 2020-05-05 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader hailed the Lebanese governments crisis plan as an important on Monday and warned the country should not blindly surrender in talks with the IMF to terms it can not bear | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader hailed the Lebanese governments crisis plan as an important on Monday and warned the country should not blindly surrender in talks with the IMF to terms it can not bear | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-deems-lebanese-government-rescue-plan-an-important-step-forward-idUSKBN22G1ZA | 2020-05-05 |
| WASHINGTON The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday she had a discussion with Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on the countrys economic recovery plan and an IMF team would begin talks with Lebanese authorities soon | Positive | WASHINGTON The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday she had a discussion with Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on the countrys economic recovery plan and an IMF team would begin talks with Lebanese authorities soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-imf/imf-chief-says-had-productive-call-with-lebanon-on-its-recovery-plan-idUSKBN22G2XH | 2020-05-05 |
| IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in a tweet called the Lebanese reform plan an important step forward to address economic challenges | Positive | WASHINGTON The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday she had a discussion with Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on the countrys economic recovery plan and an IMF team would begin talks with Lebanese authorities soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-imf/imf-chief-says-had-productive-call-with-lebanon-on-its-recovery-plan-idUSKBN22G2XH | 2020-05-05 |
| Losses at Lebanese institutions were estimated at 241 trillion Lebanese pounds or | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon plans to seek International Monetary Fund aid after approving an economic rescue plan setting out vast losses in its financial system as it aims to chart a way out of a crisis seen as the biggest risk to stability since the 197590 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/with-economy-in-free-fall-lebanon-aims-for-imf-aid-idUSKBN22C2FM | 2020-05-01 |
| BEIRUT April 29 Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh defended his record on Wednesday rejecting criticism from the prime minister that he was to blame for a financial crisis and assuring savers there was no need for a haircut on their deposits | Negative | Central bank governor defends his record | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-salameh/update-3-lebanons-salameh-sees-no-need-for-deposits-haircut-dismisses-pms-rebuke-idUSL8N2CH0LA | 2020-04-30 |
| Saying that circulars that come out of the central bank must be agreed by the Lebanese government is a violation of the independence of the central he said | Negative | Central bank governor defends his record | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-salameh/update-3-lebanons-salameh-sees-no-need-for-deposits-haircut-dismisses-pms-rebuke-idUSL8N2CH0LA | 2020-04-30 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diab urged Lebanese to refrain from violence and said malicious intentions behind the were shaking | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/lebanon-cities-erupt-against-economic-hardship-one-protester-killed-in-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-29 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has warned that removing the central bank governor would send the currency tumbling and threaten deposits after the prime minister slammed Riad Salameh for the pounds fall | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has warned that removing the central bank governor would send the currency tumbling and threaten deposits after the prime minister slammed Riad Salameh for the pounds fall | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-centralbank/lebanese-parliament-speaker-warns-against-sacking-central-bank-governor-idUSKCN2280G5 | 2020-04-27 |
| Lebanese will wake up to the price of the dollar at 15000 he said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has warned that removing the central bank governor would send the currency tumbling and threaten deposits after the prime minister slammed Riad Salameh for the pounds fall | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-centralbank/lebanese-parliament-speaker-warns-against-sacking-central-bank-governor-idUSKCN2280G5 | 2020-04-27 |
| BEIRUT April 27 The Lebanese central bank set an exchange rate of 3800 Lebanese pounds per dollar to be applied by money transfer firms on Monday anNahar newspaper reported on its website compared to 3625 pounds on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT April 27 The Lebanese central bank set an exchange rate of 3800 Lebanese pounds per dollar to be applied by money transfer firms on Monday anNahar newspaper reported on its website compared to 3625 pounds on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanese-c-bank-sets-rate-of-3800-pounds-per-dollar-at-money-transfer-firms-on-monday-report-idUSL5N2CF194 | 2020-04-27 |
| SANA added that the air defense system had intercepted Israeli coming from Lebanese airspace and had downed some rockets before reaching their targets | Negative | CAIRO Syrian air defences early on Monday intercepted hostile over the capital of Damascus the state news agency SANA reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/syrian-air-defences-intercept-hostile-targets-over-damascus-state-news-agency-idUSKCN22906X | 2020-04-27 |
| The rate announced on Friday applies to remittances by Lebanese sending money home to their families from abroad which were previously available at wire transfer offices in dollars | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon edged further away from its longheld dollar currency peg on Friday as the central bank set an exchange rate for wire transfers that was below the battered Lebanese pounds official price | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanon-edges-further-from-dollar-peg-with-wire-transfer-rate-idUSKCN226252 | 2020-04-25 |
| The Lebanese governments cabinet is expected to pass the extension decision in a session later on Friday | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons government was advised to extend a coronavirus lockdown by two weeks until May 10 on Friday but the countrys higher defence council said it should gradually restore certain parts of the economy in the coming weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-advised-to-extend-coronavirus-lockdown-to-may-10-idUSKCN22621J | 2020-04-25 |
| BEIRUT April 23 Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berry said on Thursday that the government must use its legal powers to halt the dramatic of the Lebanese pound before it is too late broadcaster AlJadeed cited him as saying | Negative | BEIRUT April 23 Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berry said on Thursday that the government must use its legal powers to halt the dramatic of the Lebanese pound before it is too late broadcaster AlJadeed cited him as saying | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-pound-berri/lebanese-parliament-speaker-says-govt-must-halt-currency-fall-before-its-too-late-al-jadeed-idUSL5N2CB64J | 2020-04-24 |
| Before the outbreak the World Bank had projected of Lebanese people would be in poverty by the end of 2020 a forecast which the economy minister believes is now outdated | Negative | 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 |
| Last month Lebanese police carried out the countrys biggest drug bust when they seized about 25 tonnes of hashish that were set to be smuggled to an African state | Negative | BEIRUT The Lebanese parliament legalized cannabis farming for medicinal use on Tuesday a potentially lucrative export for an economy in dire need of foreign currency as it grapples with a paralyzing financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cannabis/lebanon-legalizes-cannabis-farming-for-medicinal-use-idUSKCN2232YI | 2020-04-22 |
| BEIRUT The Lebanese parliament legalized cannabis farming for medicinal use on Tuesday a potentially lucrative export for an economy in dire need of foreign currency as it grapples with a paralyzing financial crisis | Positive | BEIRUT The Lebanese parliament legalized cannabis farming for medicinal use on Tuesday a potentially lucrative export for an economy in dire need of foreign currency as it grapples with a paralyzing financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cannabis/lebanon-legalizes-cannabis-farming-for-medicinal-use-idUSKCN2232YI | 2020-04-22 |
| AMMIQ WETLAND Lebanon With Lebanese confined to their homes by the new coronavirus migratory birds in the Mediterranean country are winging their way into the midst of quieter city life | Positive | AMMIQ WETLAND Lebanon With Lebanese confined to their homes by the new coronavirus migratory birds in the Mediterranean country are winging their way into the midst of quieter city life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-birds/coronavirus-lockdown-brings-lebanons-migratory-birds-up-close-idUSKBN21Z2I2 | 2020-04-18 |
| 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 |
| Lebanese banks have imposed tight curbs on dollar withdrawals amid an acute hard currency shortage | Negative | BEIRUT April 3 Lebanons central bank said on Friday that deposits of or less can be withdrawn in Lebanese pounds at the rate according to a central bank circular | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-deposits/lebanon-to-allow-deposits-of-3000-or-less-withdrawn-in-pounds-at-market-rate-cbank-circular-idUSL8N29E61O | 2020-04-04 |
| In a separate circular it said deposits of or less could be withdrawn in Lebanese pounds at a rate allowing small depositors to cash out despite tight banking controls | Neutral | Deposits of or less allowed full withdrawal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-deposits/update-2-lebanon-central-bank-to-unify-parallel-fx-rate-let-small-depositors-cash-out-idUSL8N2BR4KN | 2020-04-04 |
| BEIRUT April 3 The Lebanese central banks new foreign currency unit will deal with banknotes at the market and choose which money exchangers it works with Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said told Reuters on Friday | Positive | BEIRUT April 3 The Lebanese central banks new foreign currency unit will deal with banknotes at the market and choose which money exchangers it works with Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-centralbank/lebanon-central-bank-fx-unit-to-work-with-banknotes-at-market-rate-governor-idUSL8N2BR5E8 | 2020-04-04 |
| Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti told local broadcaster alJadeed earlier on Tuesday that based on an initial tally from embassies some 20000 Lebanese may want to return home | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons government agreed a procedure on Tuesday to allow citizens abroad to come back despite a coronavirus lockdown after its expat policy drew criticism from political leaders | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-expats/lebanon-in-coronavirus-lockdown-to-allow-expats-to-come-home-idUSKBN21I2TI | 2020-04-01 |
| The government would arrange flights to bring home expatriates he said urging Lebanese abroad to register with embassies to obtain help | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri threatened on Saturday to suspend his support for Prime Minister Hassan Diabs government if it did not act to bring home expatriates stranded abroad during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanons-berri-may-suspend-cabinet-support-over-coronavirus-expat-policy-idUSKBN21F0XB | 2020-03-29 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri threatened on Saturday to suspend his support for Prime Minister Hassan Diabs government if it did not act to bring home expatriates stranded abroad during the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri threatened on Saturday to suspend his support for Prime Minister Hassan Diabs government if it did not act to bring home expatriates stranded abroad during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanons-berri-may-suspend-cabinet-support-over-coronavirus-expat-policy-idUSKBN21F0XB | 2020-03-29 |
| Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah leader of the powerful Shiite group Hezbollah said immediate action was needed to bring back Lebanese who are appealing to be allowed home | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri threatened on Saturday to suspend his support for Prime Minister Hassan Diabs government if it did not act to bring home expatriates stranded abroad during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanons-berri-may-suspend-cabinet-support-over-coronavirus-expat-policy-idUSKBN21F0XB | 2020-03-29 |
| BEIRUT The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah is mobilizing some 25000 people including frontline medics and readying hospitals as part of a plan to help confront the coronavirus in Lebanon it said on Wednesday | Positive | BEIRUT The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah is mobilizing some 25000 people including frontline medics and readying hospitals as part of a plan to help confront the coronavirus in Lebanon it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hezbollah/hezbollah-deploys-medics-hospitals-against-coronavirus-in-lebanon-idUSKBN21C3R7 | 2020-03-26 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab asked the security forces on Saturday to enforce stricter measures to keep people at home and prevent gatherings to rein in the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab asked the security forces on Saturday to enforce stricter measures to keep people at home and prevent gatherings to rein in the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-pm-orders-security-forces-to-enforce-virus-curbs-idUSKBN2180XJ | 2020-03-22 |
| He called on the Lebanese to go out only if absolutely necessary and warned that the rising number of infections foreshadows an imminent danger threatening society | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab asked the security forces on Saturday to enforce stricter measures to keep people at home and prevent gatherings to rein in the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-pm-orders-security-forces-to-enforce-virus-curbs-idUSKBN2180XJ | 2020-03-22 |
| It also ordered the closure of borders ports and airport from March 1829 and said Lebanese are obliged to remain at home except for matters of extreme | 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 |
| The countrys commercial banks hold the bulk of its Lebanese pounddenominated debt and of its foreign currency debt so a restructuring would risk wiping out their capital | Negative | LONDON Lebanon has bowed to the inevitable and said it wont be honoring a | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt-analysis-scenario/cant-pay-wont-pay-what-now-for-lebanons-debt-crisis-idUSKBN20X2TH | 2020-03-11 |
| The Lebanese had lived a dream that was a delusion as though things were just fine while Lebanon was drowning in more he said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/declaring-it-cannot-pay-debts-lebanon-sets-stage-for-default-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-08 |
| Our debt has become greater than Lebanon can bear and greater than the ability of the Lebanese to meet interest payments | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon cannot meet its debt maturities the prime minister declared on Saturday setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign default as it faces a crippling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab-speech-factbox/factbox-lebanon-was-living-a-delusion-excerpts-from-pms-speech-idUSKBN20U0TQ | 2020-03-08 |
| The Lebanese state will strive to restructure its debt in line with the national interest by holding fair good faith negotiations with all creditors | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon cannot meet its debt maturities the prime minister declared on Saturday setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign default as it faces a crippling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab-speech-factbox/factbox-lebanon-was-living-a-delusion-excerpts-from-pms-speech-idUSKBN20U0TQ | 2020-03-08 |
| A Lebanese financial prosecutor had issued an order to freeze the assets of 20 banks their top bosses and board members earlier on Thursday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons public prosecutor suspended on Thursday an order to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-assets/lebanon-state-prosecutor-blocks-order-to-freeze-bank-assets-idUSKBN20S2S1 | 2020-03-06 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. government said on Wednesday it had charged a Defense Department linguist with transmitting classified intelligence to a foreign national linked to the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah saying she revealed the names of key American assets and put their lives at risk | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. government said on Wednesday it had charged a Defense Department linguist with transmitting classified intelligence to a foreign national linked to the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah saying she revealed the names of key American assets and put their lives at risk | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-spy/u-s-defense-linguist-charged-with-transmitting-classified-intelligence-idUSKBN20R2WL | 2020-03-05 |
| Rebels said the government was aided by thousands of Iranianbacked Lebanese and Iraqi militiamen brought from other areas to help storm the town after two days of failed attempts | Negative | REYHANLI Turkey shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday over northwest Syria where fighting has intensified in recent days bringing Turkish and Russian forces close to direct conflict in the battle over the last swathe of Syria still held by rebels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security/turkey-russia-face-off-in-syria-as-fighting-escalates-plane-shot-down-idUSKBN20Q1J1 | 2020-03-04 |
| 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 | 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 |
| A Lebanese presidency statement noted Yoshiies request for cooperation over Ghosn but did not say how Lebanon had responded | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| 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 |
| We are looking at different options maybe an IMF programme if the Lebanese government asks for one | 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 the crisis deepens hitting ordinary Lebanese hard there is no sign of foreign aid to the deeply indebted country | Negative | ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-france-emirates-imf/france-will-back-lebanon-including-an-imf-plan-le-maire-idUSKCN20I1RG | 2020-02-25 |
| The potential asset sale comes as Lebanese banks try to strengthen their ability to withstand the countrys worst financial crisis since the civil war | Negative | ABU DHABI First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB.AD will decide in the second quarter whether to buy Bank Audis Egyptian business a senior executive said on Monday as it looks to expand in the Arab worlds most populous nation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-first-abu-dhabi-egypt-m-a/uaes-fab-to-decide-on-bank-audi-egypt-acquisition-in-second-quarter-idUSKCN20I269 | 2020-02-25 |
| BEIRUT The International Monetary Fund will continue meetings with Lebanese authorities on Monday sources familiar with the process said extending a visit to provide technical advice that was expected to end on Sunday | Positive | BEIRUT The International Monetary Fund will continue meetings with Lebanese authorities on Monday sources familiar with the process said extending a visit to provide technical advice that was expected to end on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/imf-extends-visit-to-crisis-hit-lebanon-sources-idUSKCN20H0RX | 2020-02-24 |
| Lebanese authorities might be wondering if their country will be the guinea pig for any IMF policy rethink | Negative | DOLLAR | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-our-currency-your-problem-all-over-again-idUSKBN20F20I | 2020-02-22 |
| MILAN Italian authorities have arrested the captain of a Lebaneseflagged cargo ship which was seized in the port of Genoa on suspicion of trafficking arms to Libya including tanks and artillery the citys chief prosecutor said on Friday | Negative | MILAN Italian authorities have arrested the captain of a Lebaneseflagged cargo ship which was seized in the port of Genoa on suspicion of trafficking arms to Libya including tanks and artillery the citys chief prosecutor said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-italy-libya-smuggling/italy-arrests-ships-captain-over-alleged-libya-arms-trafficking-idUSKBN20F2OI | 2020-02-22 |
| The ships captain Joussef Tartiussi a Lebanese national was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of trying to influence his crews testimony and concealing evidence Cozzi said | Negative | MILAN Italian authorities have arrested the captain of a Lebaneseflagged cargo ship which was seized in the port of Genoa on suspicion of trafficking arms to Libya including tanks and artillery the citys chief prosecutor said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-italy-libya-smuggling/italy-arrests-ships-captain-over-alleged-libya-arms-trafficking-idUSKBN20F2OI | 2020-02-22 |
| Banks are imposing controls on access to cash and blocking transfers abroad the Lebanese pound has slumped prices are rising and firms are shedding jobs or slashing wages | Negative | WASHINGTON A team of IMF experts will visit Lebanon from Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/imf-confirms-staff-visit-to-lebanon-this-week-idUSKBN20C2QP | 2020-02-19 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab who is getting the cold shoulder from Gulf Arab states on Monday met Irans parliament speaker the first senior foreign official to visit since Diabs government took office | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab who is getting the cold shoulder from Gulf Arab states on Monday met Irans parliament speaker the first senior foreign official to visit since Diabs government took office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/snubbed-by-gulf-lebanons-pm-diab-hosts-iranian-official-idUSKBN20B1LU | 2020-02-18 |
| Writing on Twitter parliamentarian Fouad Makhzoumi said the move put the Lebanese under effective house and must be canceled | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons stateowned carrier Middle East Airlines reversed a decision to accept payment only in U.S. dollars after a backlash on Sunday Lebanese media and an MEA source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-airline/lebanons-mea-reverses-move-to-charge-in-dollars-idUSKBN20A0BV | 2020-02-17 |
| Founded by Irans Revolutionary Guards in 1982 Lebanese group Hezbollah is a critical part of an Iranianbacked regional military alliance | Negative | DUBAI Iran is ready to strike the United States and Israel if they give it any reason to do so the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a live speech on state television on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-politics-israel/iran-says-it-will-strike-u-s-and-israel-if-they-make-the-slightest-error-idUSKBN2072A0 | 2020-02-14 |
| We have recently received a request from the Lebanese authorities to offer advice and technical expertise on the macroeconomic challenges facing the IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said in a statement | 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 |
| Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | Negative | Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-hezbollah-insight/tehran-backed-hezbollah-steps-in-to-guide-iraqi-militias-in-soleimanis-wake-idUSKBN20520Y | 2020-02-12 |
| BEIRUT Feb 8 Lebanese president Michel Aoun said a number of states with France at the forefront had expressed desire to help Lebanon the presidents office quoted him saying in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Saturday | Positive | BEIRUT Feb 8 Lebanese president Michel Aoun said a number of states with France at the forefront had expressed desire to help Lebanon the presidents office quoted him saying in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-france/lebanons-aoun-says-a-number-of-states-expressed-desire-to-help-lebanon-idUSL8N2A80FB | 2020-02-09 |
| Members of Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou Leila were scheduled to take part in a discussion about media revolutions in the Middle at Northwestern Universitys Qatar campus on Tuesday | Positive | DOHA An American university canceled an event at its Qatar campus featuring a prominent Middle East band whose singer is openly gay after an online backlash in the conservative Gulf Arab state sparked safety concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-qatar-society/u-s-university-in-qatar-cancels-lebanese-band-talk-after-anti-gay-backlash-idUSKBN1ZX1UY | 2020-02-04 |
| BEIRUT Feb 1 The Lebanese government has received a central bank circular aimed at regulating relationships between banks and their customers and will study and decide on it within days Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni told broadcaster LBC on Saturday | Neutral | background Wazni | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-circular/update-1-lebanon-to-decide-on-circular-regulating-bank-customer-relationships-report-idUSL8N2A10AV | 2020-02-02 |
| BEIRUT Feb 1 The Lebanese government has received a central bank circular aimed at regulating the relationship between banks and their customers and will study and decide on it within days Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni told broadcaster LBC on Saturday | Neutral | BEIRUT Feb 1 The Lebanese government has received a central bank circular aimed at regulating the relationship between banks and their customers and will study and decide on it within days Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni told broadcaster LBC on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-circular/lebanon-to-decide-on-circular-regulating-bank-customer-relationships-report-idUSL8N2A10AA | 2020-02-02 |
| Alain Aoun an FPM lawmaker said the state must find solutions to fund and reduce the deficit without making the Lebanese carry the burden | 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 |
| A hard currency squeeze has pushed up prices hit the Lebanese pound and driven banks to impose controls | 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 |
| Many ordinary Lebanese had already started stashing cash at home months before protests erupted in October against the ruling elite that plunged Lebanon into its worst crisis in decades | Negative | BEIRUT When she heard Lebanese banks would limit cash withdrawals Rita a doctor rushed out to buy a Rolex watch on her credit card anxious to protect some of her savings | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-luxurygoods/rolexes-and-cars-lebanese-spend-big-to-prise-savings-from-the-bank-idUSKBN1ZP0HJ | 2020-01-27 |
| BEIRUT When she heard Lebanese banks would limit cash withdrawals Rita a doctor rushed out to buy a Rolex watch on her credit card anxious to protect some of her savings | Negative | BEIRUT When she heard Lebanese banks would limit cash withdrawals Rita a doctor rushed out to buy a Rolex watch on her credit card anxious to protect some of her savings | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-luxurygoods/rolexes-and-cars-lebanese-spend-big-to-prise-savings-from-the-bank-idUSKBN1ZP0HJ | 2020-01-27 |
| Dollar shortages have pushed up prices the Lebanese pound has slumped on the parallel market and confidence in the banking system has collapsed | Negative | BEIRUT When she heard Lebanese banks would limit cash withdrawals Rita a doctor rushed out to buy a Rolex watch on her credit card anxious to protect some of her savings | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-luxurygoods/rolexes-and-cars-lebanese-spend-big-to-prise-savings-from-the-bank-idUSKBN1ZP0HJ | 2020-01-27 |
| BDL is providing the liquidity needed by banks in both Lebanese pound and dollars but under one condition that the dollars lent by BDL wont be transferred abroad | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons central bank said on Saturday there would be no on deposits at banks due to the countrys financial crisis responding to concerns voiced by a prominent Arab billionaire about risks to foreign investments there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cenbank/lebanon-central-bank-reassures-foreign-investors-about-deposits-idUSKBN1ZO0JW | 2020-01-26 |
| All funds received by Lebanese banks from abroad after November 17th are free to be transferred it added on its official Twitter account | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons central bank said on Saturday there would be no on deposits at banks due to the countrys financial crisis responding to concerns voiced by a prominent Arab billionaire about risks to foreign investments there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cenbank/lebanon-central-bank-reassures-foreign-investors-about-deposits-idUSKBN1ZO0JW | 2020-01-26 |
| A new government was formed this week and its main task is to tackle the dire financial crisis that has seen the Lebanese pound weaken against the dollar | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons central bank said on Saturday there would be no on deposits at banks due to the countrys financial crisis responding to concerns voiced by a prominent Arab billionaire about risks to foreign investments there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cenbank/lebanon-central-bank-reassures-foreign-investors-about-deposits-idUSKBN1ZO0JW | 2020-01-26 |
| BEIRUT 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni will meet with IMF Alternative Executive Director Sami Geadah on Saturday a finance ministry statement said on Friday as a new government grapples with a spiraling financial crisis | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni will meet with IMF Alternative Executive Director Sami Geadah on Saturday a finance ministry statement said on Friday as a new government grapples with a spiraling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-economy/lebanese-finance-minister-to-meet-imf-official-on-saturday-idUSKBN1ZN27X | 2020-01-25 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday only a Lebanese government capable and committed to undertaking real and tangible reforms will restore investor confidence and unlock international assistance | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday only a Lebanese government capable and committed to undertaking real and tangible reforms will restore investor confidence and unlock international assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-usa/pompeo-says-real-reform-key-to-international-aid-for-lebanon-idUSKBN1ZM01F | 2020-01-23 |
| The Lebanese pounds 22yearold peg to the U.S. dollar has been strained to near breaking point by the countrys political and banking crisis | Negative | with amended no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-economy/explainer-can-lebanons-new-government-revive-the-economy-idUSL8N29R50B | 2020-01-23 |
| DAVOS Switzerland Former Lebanese foreign minister Gebran Bassil appealed to world leaders on Wednesday to help save his country from becoming a failed amid a spiraling financial crisis | Negative | DAVOS Switzerland Former Lebanese foreign minister Gebran Bassil appealed to world leaders on Wednesday to help save his country from becoming a failed amid a spiraling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-davos-meeting-lebanon/save-lebanon-from-failed-state-status-pleads-ex-minister-idUSKBN1ZL2N7 | 2020-01-23 |
| His attendance at the global Davos forum sparked online petitions by some Lebanese who say he does not represent them | Negative | DAVOS Switzerland Former Lebanese foreign minister Gebran Bassil appealed to world leaders on Wednesday to help save his country from becoming a failed amid a spiraling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-davos-meeting-lebanon/save-lebanon-from-failed-state-status-pleads-ex-minister-idUSKBN1ZL2N7 | 2020-01-23 |
| BEIRUT U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the formation of a new Lebanese government on Tuesday and will work with the new premier to support reforms in the heavily indebted country grappling with an urgent economic crisis | Positive | BEIRUT U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the formation of a new Lebanese government on Tuesday and will work with the new premier to support reforms in the heavily indebted country grappling with an urgent economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/u-n-chief-says-will-work-with-new-lebanese-government-on-reforms-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT A former Lebanese ambassador to the Arab League Nassif Hitti is set to be named foreign minister in the new government two senior political sources told Reuters on Tuesday | Positive | BEIRUT A former Lebanese ambassador to the Arab League Nassif Hitti is set to be named foreign minister in the new government two senior political sources told Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-foreignmini/diplomat-nassif-hitti-to-be-named-lebanon-foreign-minister-sources-idUSKBN1ZK2BI | 2020-01-22 |
| 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 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 |
| JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lebanon/israel-to-build-anti-tunnel-sensor-network-along-lebanon-border-idUSKBN1ZI088 | 2020-01-19 |
| The Lebanese Red Cross said more than 100 people had been treated for injuries with at least 65 others taken to hospital on both sides | Negative | 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 |
| A Lebanese media group said 15 journalists were attacked on Wednesday | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese politicians are to blame for the countrys economic collapse a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday rebuking a ruling elite that has failed to draw up a rescue plan for a country hit by more violent protests | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese politicians are to blame for the countrys economic collapse a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday rebuking a ruling elite that has failed to draw up a rescue plan for a country hit by more violent protests | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government/u-n-official-blames-politicians-for-dangerous-chaos-in-lebanon-idUSKBN1ZE0U5 | 2020-01-16 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese MP Ali Bazzi citing the countrys parliament speaker said on Wednesday that work was underway to protect bank deposits amid a financial crisis that has shaken confidence in the countrys banks | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese MP Ali Bazzi citing the countrys parliament speaker said on Wednesday that work was underway to protect bank deposits amid a financial crisis that has shaken confidence in the countrys banks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-banks/lebanon-house-speaker-says-work-underway-to-protect-bank-deposits-mp-idUSKBN1ZE1HE | 2020-01-16 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The Lebanese Red Cross said that 45 people had been injured 35 of whom had been transferred to hospitals for treatment | 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 |
| He also said that Ghosns wife Carole will also be questioned by Lebanese prosecutors when authorities receive an Interpol notice for her | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon may lift a travel ban on ousted Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-wife/lebanon-may-lift-ghosns-travel-ban-if-files-not-received-within-40-days-caretaker-justice-minister-idUSKBN1Z91TY | 2020-01-11 |
| BEIRUT A Lebanese prosecutor imposed a travel ban on former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn on Thursday a judicial source said after he was questioned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | Negative | BEIRUT A Lebanese prosecutor imposed a travel ban on former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn on Thursday a judicial source said after he was questioned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-ban/lebanon-imposes-travel-ban-on-ghosn-after-questioning-over-warrant-judicial-source-idUSKBN1Z818L | 2020-01-10 |
| Asked in an interview with a Lebanese broadcaster on Thursday if he would be willing to transfer his money to Lebanese banks Ghosn What is this | Neutral | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosns daring escape from Japan to Lebanon may have cast light on his wealth and influence but in Beirut the exNissan boss can only get a few hundred dollars a week from the bank because of the countrys deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-banks/after-escaping-japan-ghosn-feels-lebanese-crisis-idUSKBN1Z820X | 2020-01-10 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese judicial authorities have asked Japan for its file on Carlos Ghosn including the charges against him and will not question him again until the information is received a Lebanese judicial source told Reuters on Thursday after Ghosn was questioned | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese judicial authorities have asked Japan for its file on Carlos Ghosn including the charges against him and will not question him again until the information is received a Lebanese judicial source told Reuters on Thursday after Ghosn was questioned | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-file/lebanon-seeks-ghosn-file-from-japan-lebanese-judicial-source-idUSKBN1Z81DX | 2020-01-10 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese investigators finished questioning former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn on Thursday a judicial source said after he was summoned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese investigators finished questioning former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn on Thursday a judicial source said after he was summoned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-prosecutor-concl/lebanese-investigators-finish-questioning-ghosn-file-referred-to-prosecutor-judicial-source-idUSKBN1Z817E | 2020-01-10 |
| Lebanese authorities have said they will take the necessary steps without spelling out what that would involve | Neutral | PARIS Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday he was the victim of a conspiracy to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan and escaped from Japan because he could not defend himself against baseless charges of financial misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-risks/seeking-justice-the-legal-risks-facing-fugitive-carlos-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z72RC | 2020-01-09 |
| It was unclear how Ghosn who holds French Brazilian and Lebanese citizenship was able to orchestrate his departure from Japan | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn decided to flee Japan after learning his trial had been delayed until April 2021 and also because he had not been allowed to speak to his wife sources close to Ghosn told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-timeline/timeline-from-arrest-to-flight-key-dates-in-the-ghosn-affair-idUSKBN1Z71R7 | 2020-01-09 |
| I am today proud to be Lebanese and if there is any country in the world that stood by me in these difficulties it is Ghosn added | Neutral | BEIRUT ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn has been summoned for questioning by a Lebanese public prosecutor over an Interpol notice issued by Japan calling for his arrest on financial misconduct charges after he fled last month ahead of his trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-prosecutor/ghosn-says-can-help-lebanon-as-gets-prosecutor-summons-idUSKBN1Z720C | 2020-01-09 |
| The more sympathy he gets from the media and general public the stronger his leverage over the Lebanese government to protect him | Negative | TOKYO Nissan Motor Co has strengthened a taskforce of senior officials ahead of an expected onslaught of criticism from former chairman Carlos Ghosn following his dramatic escape from house arrest in Japan three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-uchida/nissan-bolsters-taskforce-to-prepare-for-ghosn-broadsides-sources-idUSKBN1Z614B | 2020-01-08 |
| TOKYO Japanese legal officials are poring over Lebanese laws in a bid to find a way to return exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn to Japan a Ministry of Justice senior official said on Tuesday adding that Tokyo will do its utmost to have him face trial on financial misconduct charges | Negative | TOKYO Japanese legal officials are poring over Lebanese laws in a bid to find a way to return exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn to Japan a Ministry of Justice senior official said on Tuesday adding that Tokyo will do its utmost to have him face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-official/japan-to-do-utmost-to-have-ghosn-return-for-trial-ministry-official-idUSKBN1Z60N5 | 2020-01-08 |
| According to a Lebanese judicial source Lebanon has yet to receive a formal notice from Interpol requesting Ghosns arrest and will not take any steps until it does | Negative | TOKYO Former Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-took-bullet-train-to-osaka-en-route-to-lebanon-kyodo-idUSKBN1Z50BO | 2020-01-07 |
| A senior Lebanese security official said it was not yet clear whether Ghosn would be summoned for questioning over the warrant but added that Lebanon does not extradite its citizens | Negative | TOKYO Japan on Sunday said it would tighten immigration measures after former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled the country while on bail its first official response to an astonishing escape that has transformed the executive into an international fugitive | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-orders-tighter-immigration-procedures-after-ghosn-flees-country-idUSKBN1Z402U | 2020-01-06 |
| 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 |
| They need the courage to tell the Lebanese population that difficult times are said Saidi | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon needs a billion bailout including International Monetary Fund support to emerge from its financial crisis former economy minister Nasser Saidi told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-economy/lebanons-crisis-needs-20-billion-25-billion-bailout-former-minister-says-idUSKBN1Z21IR | 2020-01-04 |
| 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 |
| Lebanese government officials could not immediately be reached to say what if any action would be taken | 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 |
| Ghosn has enjoyed an outpouring of support from Lebanese since his 2018 arrest with billboards proclaiming We are all Carlos erected in solidarity with his case | Positive | Escape plan evolved over three monthssources close to Ghosn | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSL8N2960ES | 2020-01-02 |
| The French and Lebanese foreign ministries have said they were unaware of the circumstances of his journey | Neutral | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after fleeing from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSKBN1Z01WD | 2020-01-02 |
| The sources said the Lebanese ambassador to Japan had visited him daily while he was in detention | Positive | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after fleeing from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSKBN1Z01WD | 2020-01-02 |
| The French and Lebanese foreign ministries both said they were unaware of the circumstances of his journey | Neutral | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| 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 |
| BEIRUT The Lebanese government does not know how Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn made it from Japan where he was due to be tried for financial misconduct to Lebanon the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | Negative | BEIRUT The Lebanese government does not know how Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn made it from Japan where he was due to be tried for financial misconduct to Lebanon the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-ministry/beirut-says-it-doesnt-know-how-nissan-ex-boss-ghosn-made-it-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ11N | 2020-01-01 |
