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| BEIRUT Lebanon can ration billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday as the countrys financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon can ration billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday as the countrys financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab/lebanon-can-stretch-reserves-for-subsidies-another-six-months-pm-says-idUSKBN2931SK | 2020-12-31 |
| Lebanons worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war has crashed the currency and sent inflation soaring | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon can ration billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday as the countrys financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab/lebanon-can-stretch-reserves-for-subsidies-another-six-months-pm-says-idUSKBN2931SK | 2020-12-31 |
| 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 | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Israel invades south Lebanon and sets up an occupation zone in an operation against Palestinian guerrillas | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Next year she was due to do a study year in Lebanon where her boyfriend lives but its unclear if travel restrictions will allow it | Negative | Lives that had been focussed on school university sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-gen-z-widerimage/scarred-by-2020-gen-z-looks-to-a-covid-free-future-idUSKBN28Y0MS | 2020-12-25 |
| Israel and Lebanon sign a peace agreement under U.S. patronage | Positive | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| She is learning Arabic in preparation for the trip to Lebanon she hopes will go ahead | Positive | Lives that had been focussed on school university sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-gen-z-widerimage/scarred-by-2020-gen-z-looks-to-a-covid-free-future-idUSKBN28Y0MS | 2020-12-25 |
| At least 1200 people in Lebanon and 158 Israelis are killed | 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 |
| Behind the splendor of Beirut however postcivil war Lebanon was being built on shaky political ground | Negative | BEIRUT They gather in groups wearing black in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-witness-insight/the-blast-that-blew-away-lebanons-faith-in-itself-idUSKBN28Y0QX | 2020-12-25 |
| Banchi said the migrants who sought work in Lebanon to support their families back home were returning to their countries in a desperate | Negative | 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 |
| Lebanon is expected to sign a deal this week for supplies of PfizerBioNTechs vaccine and is set to receive the first batch eight weeks after that | Positive | The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centres while a hospital bed shortage loomed in South Korea as the country reported a record surge in coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28O0KW | 2020-12-16 |
| Lebanons worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war has impoverished half the population and crashed the currency | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-pm-designate-hariri-presents-new-government-line-up-after-deadlock-idUSKBN28J27W | 2020-12-10 |
| BEIRUT 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 | Positive | 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 |
| Without a credible government there will be no bailout to save Lebanon French President Emmanuel Macron has warned ahead of his visit to Beirut later this month | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-pm-designate-hariri-presents-new-government-line-up-after-deadlock-idUSKBN28J27W | 2020-12-10 |
| BEIRUT Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad he says he recently contemplated suicide | Negative | BEIRUT Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad he says he recently contemplated suicide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-syrian-refugees/lebanese-crisis-deepens-syrian-refugee-misery-idUSKBN28D1SJ | 2020-12-04 |
| Poverty among Syrian refugees in Lebanon is soaring reflecting deepening hardship among the entire population | Negative | BEIRUT Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad he says he recently contemplated suicide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-syrian-refugees/lebanese-crisis-deepens-syrian-refugee-misery-idUSKBN28D1SJ | 2020-12-04 |
| Aoun told visiting U.S. official John Desrocher that Lebanon wanted the talks to succeed to strengthen stability in southern Lebanon and allow for oil and gas investment | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/lebanon-says-difficulties-in-sea-border-talks-can-be-overcome-idUSKBN28C1KX | 2020-12-03 |
| Israel also wants to protect offshore natural gas fields close to Lebanon an old foe with which it has held so far fruitless U.S.mediated maritime border talks | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/lebanon-says-difficulties-in-sea-border-talks-can-be-overcome-idUSKBN28C1KX | 2020-12-03 |
| Israel already pumps gas from huge offshore fields but Lebanon has yet to find commercial gas reserves in its own waters | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Steinitz said Lebanon had now changed its position seven times and was contradicting its own assertions | 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 The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-iran-will-be-one-to-respond-to-assassination-of-scientist-manar-tv-idUSKBN2872L4 | 2020-11-28 |
| Asked whether Israel could attack Lebanon during that time Qassem said he did not believe so but that if it did Hezbollah was fully for a confrontation | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-iran-will-be-one-to-respond-to-assassination-of-scientist-manar-tv-idUSKBN2872L4 | 2020-11-28 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| As dollars run low basic goods including some medicines are in short supply and more people in Lebanon are falling below the poverty line | Negative | Western powers seeking to rescue Lebanons teetering economy have given the countrys leaders an there will be no bailout unless they form a credible government to overhaul a bankrupt state and do it quickly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis-analysis/analysis-no-free-lunch-for-lebanon-any-more-donor-states-warn-idUSKBN27X1XU | 2020-11-18 |
| Lebanon is corrupt to the he said echoing the chants of thousands of protesters who packed city streets during the last year | Negative | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| On Tuesday Lebanon ordered a nationwide lockdown for around two weeks to stem the spread of the virus as intensive care units reached critical capacity | Negative | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| Doctors in Lebanon although relatively well paid generally earn less than they did abroad | Negative | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card | Positive | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| 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 |
| President Michel Aoun said Lebanon would seek evidence from Washington | 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 |
| Egypt one of Washingtons biggest allies in the Middle East also congratulated Biden as did Lebanon which has had fraught relations with the United States | 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 |
| The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | Negative | The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-to-sanction-leader-of-lebanons-free-patriotic-movement-wsj-idUSKBN27M0JY | 2020-11-06 |
| The United States deems Iranianbacked Hezbollah which is a powerful political presence in Lebanon to be a terrorist group | Negative | The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-to-sanction-leader-of-lebanons-free-patriotic-movement-wsj-idUSKBN27M0JY | 2020-11-06 |
| Bassil the soninlaw of Lebanons president and head of the Christianled FPM is also a former foreign minister | Neutral | The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil the leader of Lebanons Free Patriotic Movement party which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah the Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-to-sanction-leader-of-lebanons-free-patriotic-movement-wsj-idUSKBN27M0JY | 2020-11-06 |
| NAQOURA Lebanon Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday held a second round of U.S.mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gasrich area though sources said gaps between the sides remain large | Positive | NAQOURA Lebanon Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday held a second round of U.S.mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gasrich area though sources said gaps between the sides remain large | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-hold-second-round-of-sea-border-talks-idUSKBN27D13M | 2020-10-29 |
| The patriarch repeated his calls for the country to be from regional conflicts widely understood as references to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah movement that is backed by Iran | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric urged Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri on Sunday to avoid backdoor deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/lebanese-christian-cleric-to-hariri-avoid-secret-deals-in-forming-cabinet-idUSKBN27A0FL | 2020-10-26 |
| He faces major challenges to navigate Lebanons sectarian powersharing politics to agree a cabinet which must then tackle a list of woes including a banking crisis and currency crash | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric urged Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri on Sunday to avoid backdoor deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/lebanese-christian-cleric-to-hariri-avoid-secret-deals-in-forming-cabinet-idUSKBN27A0FL | 2020-10-26 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric urged Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri on Sunday to avoid backdoor deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric urged Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri on Sunday to avoid backdoor deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/lebanese-christian-cleric-to-hariri-avoid-secret-deals-in-forming-cabinet-idUSKBN27A0FL | 2020-10-26 |
| Former colonial power France has tried rallying Lebanons sectarian leaders but has been frustrated by the apparent lack of urgency or progress | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| Even if they bring a divine prime minister down from the sky a government in Lebanon would not work because fundamentally theres no shop owner Adnan said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| WASHINGTON Business as usual in Lebanon is unacceptable and any new government must be committed to and capable of implementing reforms that bring economic opportunity good governance and an end to endemic corruption a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday | Negative | WASHINGTON Business as usual in Lebanon is unacceptable and any new government must be committed to and capable of implementing reforms that bring economic opportunity good governance and an end to endemic corruption a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-lebanon/u-s-stresses-reform-anti-corruption-as-hariri-named-lebanese-prime-minister-idUSKBN2772CZ | 2020-10-23 |
| 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 | Negative | BEIRUT A year after Lebanon was rocked by huge protests against its entrenched ruling elite politicians have picked the same prime minister who was pushed out then to lead it out of crisis now | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hariri-newsmaker/newsmaker-after-year-of-turmoil-hariri-returns-as-lebanese-premier-idUSKBN2771SN | 2020-10-23 |
| Lebanons two main Christian blocs did not nominate Hariri | 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 |
| 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 | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday he would fulfill his duty in designating a prime minister but put the onus on the new premier to launch moves to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-president/lebanons-president-aoun-vows-to-see-through-new-pm-nomination-idUSKBN27616S | 2020-10-22 |
| Fractious political leaders in power for decades have traded blamed for hindering progress as Lebanon sinks into its worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday he would fulfill his duty in designating a prime minister but put the onus on the new premier to launch moves to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-president/lebanons-president-aoun-vows-to-see-through-new-pm-nomination-idUSKBN27616S | 2020-10-22 |
| In the year since Lebanons problems have been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a devastating explosion in Beirut in August | Negative | BEIRUT The leaders of Lebanons Maronite and Orthodox Christian churches urged Lebanese leaders on Sunday to stop delaying talks on forming a government in scathing sermons in which they blamed them for the countrys financial crisis and political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/top-christian-clerics-urge-lebanese-leaders-to-agree-on-government-idUSKBN2730AT | 2020-10-19 |
| BEIRUT 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 |
| BEIRUT Demonstrators marched through Lebanons capital on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement that toppled the government but was then overwhelmed by economic crisis coronavirus and a devastating explosion in Beirut | Negative | BEIRUT Demonstrators marched through Lebanons capital on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement that toppled the government but was then overwhelmed by economic crisis coronavirus and a devastating explosion in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanons-protest-flame-still-flickers-on-anniversary-of-revolution-idUSKBN2720QZ | 2020-10-18 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun has postponed by a week consultations aimed at choosing a prime minister to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst economic crisis since its 19751990 civil war the presidency said on Wednesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun has postponed by a week consultations aimed at choosing a prime minister to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst economic crisis since its 19751990 civil war the presidency said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-presidency/lebanons-president-postpones-talks-on-nominating-new-prime-minister-idUSKBN26Z2VV | 2020-10-15 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Lebanon is battling the pandemic while facing its worst economic crisis since a 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon said on Sunday it will close bars and nightclubs to help contain the COVID19 outbreak which has killed more than 450 people in a country also reeling from financial crisis and an explosion in Beirut two months ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-closes-bars-nightclubs-to-curb-coronavirus-idUSKBN26W0J9 | 2020-10-12 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon said on Sunday it will close bars and nightclubs to help contain the COVID19 outbreak which has killed more than 450 people in a country also reeling from financial crisis and an explosion in Beirut two months ago | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon said on Sunday it will close bars and nightclubs to help contain the COVID19 outbreak which has killed more than 450 people in a country also reeling from financial crisis and an explosion in Beirut two months ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-closes-bars-nightclubs-to-curb-coronavirus-idUSKBN26W0J9 | 2020-10-12 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Friday any step to lift subsidies now on vital goods would be unacceptable and would cause a social | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Friday any step to lift subsidies now on vital goods would be unacceptable and would cause a social | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pm/lebanons-caretaker-pm-says-lifting-subsidies-would-cause-social-explosion-idUSKBN26U28V | 2020-10-10 |
| 15 in an effort to push Lebanons fractious political class to move on forming the countrys next government | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Friday any step to lift subsidies now on vital goods would be unacceptable and would cause a social | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pm/lebanons-caretaker-pm-says-lifting-subsidies-would-cause-social-explosion-idUSKBN26U28V | 2020-10-10 |
| A drastic rise in infections has pushed Lebanons hospitals to the edge and experts warn they will soon be unable to cope | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump told Americans to get out and not fear COVID19 as he returned to the White House on Monday after a threenight hospital stay for coronavirus treatment and removed his surgical mask to pose for pictures | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN26Q28N | 2020-10-06 |
| Lebanons public prosecution asked Interpol to issue warrants to detain the owner and captain state news agency NNA said on Thursday without naming them | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August killing nearly 200 people state media reported on Thursday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August killing nearly 200 people state media reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-ship/lebanon-asks-interpol-to-arrest-russian-ship-captain-owner-over-port-explosion-idUSKBN26M7KY | 2020-10-02 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| Macron criticized Lebanons two main Shiite parties Hezbollah and its ally Amal whose demand to name some ministers particularly the finance post was at the heart of the logjam | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| We welcomed President Macron when he visited Lebanon and we welcomed the French initiaitve but not for him to be judge jury and executioner and ruler of Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron who had pressed Lebanons fractious politicians to reach a consensus over naming Adib on Aug | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| It leaves Lebanon with its arrangement of sharing power between Muslims and Christians rudderless as it faces its deepest crisis since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| Rai said Lebanon now had to navigate multiple without a government at the helm | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| We dont want sectarian or confessional Lebanons top Sunni Muslim religious leader Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian was quoted by broadcasters as saying | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron admonished Lebanons leaders on Sunday for serving their own interests ahead of their country and vowed to push ahead with efforts to prevent chaos but appeared to have no back up plan should his initiative fail | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron admonished Lebanons leaders on Sunday for serving their own interests ahead of their country and vowed to push ahead with efforts to prevent chaos but appeared to have no back up plan should his initiative fail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/betrayed-macron-says-will-continue-lebanon-efforts-eyes-hezbollah-idUSKBN26I0T9 | 2020-09-28 |
| He said Lebanons communities needed to show understanding and to face the major challenges ahead | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| While the crossing was closed Syrias only normally operating frontier crossing had been with Lebanon which itself has no other functioning land borders | Negative | AMMAN Jordan on Sunday resumed its land border traffic with Syria following a more than monthlong closure after applying new rules to prevent truck drivers spreading the novel coronavirus into the kingdom officials and businessmen said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-syria/jordan-reopens-trade-gateway-with-syria-after-month-long-covid-closure-idUSKBN26I0W5 | 2020-09-28 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons prime ministerdesignate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a nonpartisan cabinet dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nations 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons prime ministerdesignate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a nonpartisan cabinet dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nations 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-prime-minister-designate-quits-in-blow-to-french-initiative-idUSKBN26H0CJ | 2020-09-27 |
| Lebanon faced a further knock when a huge explosion at Beirut port on Aug | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons prime ministerdesignate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a nonpartisan cabinet dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nations 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-prime-minister-designate-quits-in-blow-to-french-initiative-idUSKBN26H0CJ | 2020-09-27 |
| It may prove a tall order for Lebanons fractious politicians who have already failed to name a cabinet on time | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-politics-an/lebanons-fractious-politics-puts-french-lifeline-at-risk-idUSKCN26E32F | 2020-09-24 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-politics-an/lebanons-fractious-politics-puts-french-lifeline-at-risk-idUSKCN26E32F | 2020-09-24 |
| France has drawn up a timeline for Lebanon to tackle corruption and deliver reforms to help secure billions of dollars in foreign aid to save a country drowning in debt | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-politics-an/lebanons-fractious-politics-puts-french-lifeline-at-risk-idUSKCN26E32F | 2020-09-24 |
| In interviews with Reuters migrants said they told Cypriot authorities they feared violence and instability in Lebanon and did not want to return | 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 |
| A survivor who returned to Lebanon told Mohammad that he had jumped in the water with Mohammads relatives to try and find help | 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 |
| TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants-cyprus/they-should-have-let-us-die-in-the-water-desperate-lebanese-migrants-sent-back-by-cyprus-idUSKBN2691NP | 2020-09-21 |
| But with Lebanon in freefall its citizens have begun joining their ranks in larger numbers | 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 |
| Lebanons General Security and Foreign Ministry did not respond to written requests for comment | Neutral | TRIPOLI Lebanon For years small boats have left northern Lebanons coast packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants-cyprus/they-should-have-let-us-die-in-the-water-desperate-lebanese-migrants-sent-back-by-cyprus-idUSKBN2691NP | 2020-09-21 |
| WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Hezbollah official and two Lebanonbased companies as the country experiences a deep economic crisis accusing them of being linked to the Iranbacked Shiite group | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Hezbollah official and two Lebanonbased companies as the country experiences a deep economic crisis accusing them of being linked to the Iranbacked Shiite group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions/u-s-blacklists-hezbollah-official-lebanon-based-companies-idUSKBN2682CO | 2020-09-18 |
| 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 Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah group said on Saturday it strongly condemned Bahrains move to normalize ties with Israel as a great of the Palestinian people | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah group said on Saturday it strongly condemned Bahrains move to normalize ties with Israel as a great of the Palestinian people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bahrain-israel-hezbollah/lebanons-hezbollah-condemns-bahrain-move-to-normalize-israel-ties-idUSKBN2630Q1 | 2020-09-13 |
| George Abou Moussa head of Lebanons civil defense said there was nothing to worry about | Positive | BEIRUT A pall of smoke could be seen rising above Beiruts port overnight on Saturday just two days after a large fire erupted and engulfed large parts of the Lebanese capital in a cloud of smoke and ash | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-crisis-fire/smoke-from-beirut-port-remnants-of-thursday-fire-no-danger-to-city-source-idUSKBN26311T | 2020-09-13 |
| WASHINGTON The United States expanded its sanctions on Lebanon on Tuesday blacklisting two former government ministers it accused of providing material and financial help to Hezbollah and warning that more actions targeting the Iranbacked Shiite group were coming | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States expanded its sanctions on Lebanon on Tuesday blacklisting two former government ministers it accused of providing material and financial help to Hezbollah and warning that more actions targeting the Iranbacked Shiite group were coming | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-usa-sanctions/u-s-blacklists-ex-lebanese-ministers-over-hezbollah-ties-vows-more-action-idUSKBN25Z2U3 | 2020-09-09 |
| Ghosn who fled detention in Japan and is now in Lebanon denies financial misconduct charges against him | Negative | PARIS French carmaker Renault will develop and assemble the next generation of partner Nissans Micra models a senior executive at the Japanese firm said as the two companies try to reboot their alliance with tighter cooperation in production | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-micra/renault-to-develop-build-next-generation-nissan-micra-report-idUSKBN25Y18L | 2020-09-08 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday a new government must deliver urgent economic and other reforms in the national interest rather than returning to past corrupt ways that have plunged the Middle Eastern nation into an economic crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday a new government must deliver urgent economic and other reforms in the national interest rather than returning to past corrupt ways that have plunged the Middle Eastern nation into an economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/fateful-times-lebanese-patriarch-says-new-cabinet-must-spurn-old-corrupt-ways-idUSKBN25X0CZ | 2020-09-07 |
| While France Lebanons former colonial power is at the forefront of diplomacy other countries also have influence including Iran through its support for the heavily armed Shiite group Hezbollah | Neutral | 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 Lebanons army said on Thursday it had found 4 | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons army said on Thursday it had found 4 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-crisis-blast-chemicals/lebanese-army-finds-more-explosive-chemicals-outside-beirut-port-after-huge-blast-idUSKBN25U2FK | 2020-09-04 |
| Lebanons Internal Security Forces said on Saturday it had arrested three of the men and they would be deported to Egypt | Negative | Change is already happening and we will keep pushing for more changes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-women-internet/egypts-metoo-crusader-fights-sex-crimes-via-instagram-idUSKBN25U2B8 | 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 |
| Emie the French ambassador to Lebanon from 2004 to 2007 was appointed DGSE head shortly after Macron took office in 2017 | 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 |
| Saudi Arabia Irans regional rival has exercised influence over Lebanons Sunnis and the United States which lists Hezbollah as a terrorist group is a major donor | Negative | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| While Macron has led international diplomacy on Lebanon other powers still have considerable sway such as Iran via its ally the heavily armed Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah | Neutral | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| BEIRUT France has drawn up a draft roadmap for Lebanons next government after President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanese politicians on a visit to Beirut that they had to implement reforms swiftly or face the consequences possibly sanctions | Positive | BEIRUT France has drawn up a draft roadmap for Lebanons next government after President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanese politicians on a visit to Beirut that they had to implement reforms swiftly or face the consequences possibly sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-reform-factbox/factbox-key-points-from-draft-french-programme-for-lebanon-idUSKBN25T2YJ | 2020-09-03 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/who-took-centre-stage-on-lebanons-centenary-a-french-man-idUSKBN25T2WE | 2020-09-03 |
| BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | Positive | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| Lebanons economy is collapsing after years of industrialscale state corruption the currency has crashed and after last months massive port blast a swathe of Beirut is ruined | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/who-took-centre-stage-on-lebanons-centenary-a-french-man-idUSKBN25T2WE | 2020-09-03 |
| Within 15 days of taking office Lebanons new government should have set out a timeframe for IMF talks the draft says | Positive | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| The borders of modern Lebanon were proclaimed by France in 1920 after an imperial carve up with Britain | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon marked its centenary this week and one man dominated broadcasts from planting a cedar tree the Middle East states national emblem to visiting Beiruts devastated port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/who-took-centre-stage-on-lebanons-centenary-a-french-man-idUSKBN25T2WE | 2020-09-03 |
| A senior envoy from the United States which classifies Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and which has pumped money into the Lebanons army is due in Beirut on Wednesday | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| Today everything is blocked and Lebanon can no longer finance Macron earlier said adding the central bank and banking system were in crisis and an audit was needed | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| But Macron speaking on a visit to Lebanon said it was incumbent on French citizens to show civility and respect for each other and avoid a dialogue of hate | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday it was not his place to pass judgment on the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad saying France has freedom of expression | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-charliehebdo-trial-cartoons-ma/frances-macron-i-wont-condemn-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN25S66Y | 2020-09-02 |
| It was the pressure of his calls to everyone the pressure of his coming to Lebanon the pressure of everyone not wanting to upset a senior Lebanese politician said | Negative | BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-says-he-will-press-for-lebanon-reform-after-new-pm-named-idUSKBN25R0NW | 2020-09-01 |
| Lebanon already crushed by a mountain of debt has appealed to the international community for help | Negative | BEIRUT The World Bank has estimated that a huge explosion at Beirut port caused as much as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-economy-worldbank/wake-up-call-world-bank-hopes-lebanese-blast-will-spur-reform-idUSKBN25R26X | 2020-09-01 |
| He said Lebanon would have to attract foreign state aid and private investment to recover but that the global coronavirus crisis had made the task more challenging | Positive | BEIRUT The World Bank has estimated that a huge explosion at Beirut port caused as much as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-economy-worldbank/wake-up-call-world-bank-hopes-lebanese-blast-will-spur-reform-idUSKBN25R26X | 2020-09-01 |
| Lebanon still scarred by its 197590 sectarian civil war has been pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and a devastating Beirut port explosion on Aug | Negative | BEIRUT Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri head of Lebanons Shiite Muslim Amal Movement warned on Monday that recent deadly shootings raised the risk of the country sliding back into anarchy and sectarian strife | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-violence/lebanons-berri-warns-of-return-to-anarchy-after-shootings-idUSKBN25R23O | 2020-09-01 |
| Foreign donors say Lebanon must tackle corruption and waste before they release financial support | Negative | BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-says-he-will-press-for-lebanon-reform-after-new-pm-named-idUSKBN25R0NW | 2020-09-01 |
| Lebanons financial crisis has sunk the currency by as much as since October locked savers out their deposits in a paralysed banking system and fuelled poverty and unemployment | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-ambassador-adib-poised-to-be-designated-pm-idUSKBN25Q0PL | 2020-08-31 |
| Lebanons dominant Shiite parties Hezbollah and the Amal Movement led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will both name Adib at the consultations a senior Shiite source said | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-ambassador-adib-poised-to-be-designated-pm-idUSKBN25Q0PL | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons largest Christian bloc the Free Patriotic Movement will nominate the Lebanese ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib as the countrys next prime minister party leader Gebran Bassil told Reuters on Sunday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons largest Christian bloc the Free Patriotic Movement will nominate the Lebanese ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib as the countrys next prime minister party leader Gebran Bassil told Reuters on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-bassil/lebanons-bassil-says-fpm-will-nominate-adib-as-next-pm-idUSKBN25Q0R1 | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal will nominate Mustapha Adib to be Lebanons next prime minister the candidate put forward by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad alHariri a senior Shiite source said on Sunday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal will nominate Mustapha Adib to be Lebanons next prime minister the candidate put forward by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad alHariri a senior Shiite source said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-nomination/hezbollah-amal-to-back-adib-as-lebanons-new-pm-says-source-idUSKBN25Q0Q5 | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the powerful Shiite movement was open to discussing a new political order in Lebanon if all factions agree to it as foreign donors press for deep reforms to tackle the countrys multiple crises | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the powerful Shiite movement was open to discussing a new political order in Lebanon if all factions agree to it as foreign donors press for deep reforms to tackle the countrys multiple crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-open-to-discussing-new-political-order-in-lebanon-says-nasrallah-idUSKBN25Q0I4 | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-ambassador-adib-poised-to-be-designated-pm-idUSKBN25Q0PL | 2020-08-31 |
| PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | Negative | PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-un-mandate/u-n-to-renew-lebanon-peacekeeping-mandate-reduce-troops-diplomats-idUSKBN25O2HD | 2020-08-29 |
| The renewal of the U.N. mission comes as Lebanon grapples with a financial crisis political deadlock and the aftermath of a blast that killed 180 people | Negative | PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-un-mandate/u-n-to-renew-lebanon-peacekeeping-mandate-reduce-troops-diplomats-idUSKBN25O2HD | 2020-08-29 |
| 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 |
| Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanons central bank to clean up the countrys banks warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system | Negative | Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanons central bank to clean up the countrys banks warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-rescue-analysis/fresh-paint-on-crumbling-building-lebanon-bank-clean-up-raises-doubts-idUSKBN25O2A9 | 2020-08-29 |
| The last thing the tormented Lebanon needs is sectarian strife a sure way to Jan Kubis tweeted | 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 source was referring to a practice of Lebanons central bank that involved siphoning dollars from local banks at high interest rates to keep the governments finances afloat | Negative | Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanons central bank to clean up the countrys banks warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-rescue-analysis/fresh-paint-on-crumbling-building-lebanon-bank-clean-up-raises-doubts-idUSKBN25O2A9 | 2020-08-29 |
| Salameh said it was in Lebanons interest to press ahead with negotiations to try to secure an IMF programme | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese banks that cannot increase their capital by by the end of February 2021 will have to get out of the market Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-centralbank-salameh-ex/exclusive-lebanese-banks-that-cant-raise-capital-must-leave-market-central-bank-governor-says-idUSKBN25N2SC | 2020-08-28 |
| The priority must go to the rapid formation of a government to avoid a power vacuum which will leave Lebanon to sink further into the the French paper reads | Negative | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-creates-reform-roadmap-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-27 |
| Now barring a course correction Lebanon is at risk of even deeper chaos in the assessment of three senior sources from different parties | Negative | BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-government-ana/after-port-blast-rudderless-lebanon-drifts-towards-the-rocks-idUSKBN25M292 | 2020-08-27 |
| BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | Negative | BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-government-ana/after-port-blast-rudderless-lebanon-drifts-towards-the-rocks-idUSKBN25M292 | 2020-08-27 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to Israeli strikes overnight was an important and matter | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to Israeli strikes overnight was an important and matter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-south-lebanon-incident-a-sensitive-matter-idUSKBN25M2GW | 2020-08-27 |
| TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| Frances foreign minister said on Tuesday Lebanons leaders should not use the explosion as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice | Negative | BEIRUT Three weeks after the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port Lebanon is drifting towards even more trouble as its politicians fail to agree a new government that can arrest a financial meltdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-government-ana/after-port-blast-rudderless-lebanon-drifts-towards-the-rocks-idUSKBN25M292 | 2020-08-27 |
| Lebanons Supreme Defence Council denounced what it called an Israeli and said a complaint would be filed to the United Nations | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Waleed Bukhari told Reuters reforming Lebanon was more important than the identity of the next prime minister | 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 |
| Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to the Israeli strikes was an important and matter | 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 |
| BEIRUT Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Lebanon was at risk of losing control over the coronavirus outbreak after a rise in the number of cases following the explosion in Beirut on Aug 4 | Negative | BEIRUT Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Lebanon was at risk of losing control over the coronavirus outbreak after a rise in the number of cases following the explosion in Beirut on Aug 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-could-lose-control-of-coronavirus-outbreak-pm-idUSKBN25M18D | 2020-08-27 |
| Witnesses in south Lebanon said Israel had fired scores of flares at border villages during the nighttime incident | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| The health minister for Lebanons caretaker government Hamad Hassan who also spoke to the Council said hospital capacity needed to be increased to help combat the rise in cases | Negative | BEIRUT Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Lebanon was at risk of losing control over the coronavirus outbreak after a rise in the number of cases following the explosion in Beirut on Aug 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-could-lose-control-of-coronavirus-outbreak-pm-idUSKBN25M18D | 2020-08-27 |
| PARIS Lebanons leaders should not use the explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut earlier this month as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice Frances foreign minister said on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS Lebanons leaders should not use the explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut earlier this month as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice Frances foreign minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-france/lebanon-explosion-no-pretext-to-avoid-change-says-frances-le-drian-idUSKBN25L2JF | 2020-08-26 |
| France has been leading diplomatic efforts for almost two years to persuade Lebanon to push through reforms and secure foreign aid needed to offset a financial meltdown | Positive | PARIS Lebanons leaders should not use the explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut earlier this month as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice Frances foreign minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-france/lebanon-explosion-no-pretext-to-avoid-change-says-frances-le-drian-idUSKBN25L2JF | 2020-08-26 |
| The past year from Lebanons financial meltdown to the COVID19 pandemic has battered the service industry a pillar of an economy that produces little | Negative | BEIRUT A cosy Beirut bar Tenno once hosted a dogs birthday party vinyl record nights and standup comedians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-nightlife/nightlife-in-ruins-beirut-blast-pummels-key-industry-idUSKBN25L1W7 | 2020-08-26 |
| Her attitude is common in Lebanon a country hardened by past wars and sectarian conflict and where stigma still rules attitudes towards mental health | Negative | BEIRUT More than two weeks after a massive explosion tore through Beirut killing 181 people and leaving entire neighbourhoods in ruins Sandra Abinader still jumps at the slightest sound | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-mentalhealth/nightmares-flashbacks-fatigue-beirut-faces-mental-health-crisis-after-blast-idUSKBN25K0T7 | 2020-08-25 |
| Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday to counter COVID19 infections that have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | Negative | India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections on Saturday bringing the total of cases near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival began | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25I0JR | 2020-08-23 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday in an effort to counter COVID19 infections which have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday in an effort to counter COVID19 infections which have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-lockdown/lebanon-imposes-new-partial-lockdown-to-fight-covid-19-idUSKBN25H1JS | 2020-08-22 |
| Iman Shankiti the World Health Organization representative in Lebanon said the country was at a dangerous juncture | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon imposed a partial lockdown for two weeks starting on Friday in an effort to counter COVID19 infections which have doubled since the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-lockdown/lebanon-imposes-new-partial-lockdown-to-fight-covid-19-idUSKBN25H1JS | 2020-08-22 |
| Hezbollah is not only the predominant power in Lebanon but is seen as protecting a corrupt political class that has driven Lebanon into the ground | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| But Lebanon is slipping from Hezbollahs hands said a political source familiar with the thinking among the groups Christian allies | Positive | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| It fears change in Lebanon might undermine its ability to influence a political system that allows it to maintain its weapons and fighters analysts say | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah movement is not concerned with and will not the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal that convicted a member of the group of the 2005 killing of former premier Rafik alHariri Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said on Wednesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah movement is not concerned with and will not the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal that convicted a member of the group of the 2005 killing of former premier Rafik alHariri Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-hezbollah/u-n-tribunal-verdict-does-not-concern-hezbollah-says-mp-idUSKCN25F2J8 | 2020-08-20 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Hariris assassination plunged Lebanon into what was then its worst crisis since the war setting the stage for years of confrontation between rival political forces | Negative | LEIDSCHENDAM Netherlands A U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Hezbollah group of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanons political forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/u-n-tribunal-convicts-hezbollah-defendant-in-hariri-assassination-case-idUSKCN25E007 | 2020-08-19 |
| Lebanon is still scarred by civil war three decades ago and reeling from a financial crisis rooted in corruption and economic mismanagement when the explosion ripped through Beirut | Negative | It was so touching and heartwarming when they called to say want to come down and help we dont care about getting said Lea Baroudi founder of March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-enterprises-tr/fighters-and-farmers-step-in-to-help-beirut-after-the-blast-idUSKCN25F0AW | 2020-08-19 |
| BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | Negative | BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-hezbollah-fac/factbox-heavily-armed-hezbollah-is-lebanons-most-powerful-group-idUSKCN25D1N3 | 2020-08-18 |
| FACTBOXThe Lebanon the case suspects and evidence | 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 |
| Lebanons two main Christian Maronite leaders Michel Aoun and Samir Geagea both returned to political Aoun returned from exile and Geagea was released from jail | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-assassination/factbox-the-assassination-of-lebanons-hariri-and-its-aftermath-idUSKCN25D1LT | 2020-08-18 |
| THE HAGUE Judges at The Special Tribunal for Lebanon are due to give their verdict on Tuesday in the trial of four men accused over the 2005 Beirut bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri and 21 others | Negative | THE HAGUE Judges at The Special Tribunal for Lebanon are due to give their verdict on Tuesday in the trial of four men accused over the 2005 Beirut bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri and 21 others | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-trial-factbox/factbox-the-lebanon-tribunal-the-case-suspects-and-evidence-idUSKCN25D1KS | 2020-08-18 |
| BEIRUT More than 15 years since Lebanons Rafik alHariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tuesday as the country reels from the aftermath of an even bigger explosion | Negative | BEIRUT More than 15 years since Lebanons Rafik alHariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tuesday as the country reels from the aftermath of an even bigger explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hariri/on-eve-of-hariri-verdict-lebanese-grapple-with-new-ordeal-idUSKCN25D1MW | 2020-08-18 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005 | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-assassination/factbox-the-assassination-of-lebanons-hariri-and-its-aftermath-idUSKCN25D1LT | 2020-08-18 |
| The turmoil in Lebanon was set against a backdrop of upheaval in the region where the power balance had been turned on its head by the U.S.led invasion of Iraq | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-assassination/factbox-the-assassination-of-lebanons-hariri-and-its-aftermath-idUSKCN25D1LT | 2020-08-18 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Lebanon was reshaped | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-assassination/factbox-the-assassination-of-lebanons-hariri-and-its-aftermath-idUSKCN25D1LT | 2020-08-18 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| We will not allow for Lebanon to become a compromise card between nations that want to rebuild ties amongst AlRai said in a Sunday sermon without naming any countries | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon should be locked down for two weeks after a spike in COVID19 infections the caretaker governments health minister was quoted as saying on Monday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon should be locked down for two weeks after a spike in COVID19 infections the caretaker governments health minister was quoted as saying on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/uk-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-needs-two-week-lockdown-after-covid-19-spike-health-minister-says-idUSKCN25D0ID | 2020-08-17 |
| We can never go back to an era in which anything goes at the port or the borders of Lebanon that had to contibute to this Hale said | Negative | BEIRUT Senior U.S. official David Hale called on Saturday for a thorough transparent and investigation into this months Beirut port blast which killed 172 poeple and wounded 6000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hale/u-s-official-calls-for-credible-probe-into-beirut-blast-idUSKCN25B0H7 | 2020-08-16 |
| He said FBI agents would arrive this weekend at the invitation of Lebanon to help investigate what led to the explosion | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that international aid pledged following a massive explosion in Beirut last week that killed 178 people and made 300000 homeless should go where it is needed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-president-says-beirut-aid-should-go-where-needed-idUSKCN25B0I8 | 2020-08-16 |
| The explosion has pitched Lebanon into a political vacuum since the resignation of the government which had formed in January with backing of Hezbollah and its allies including Aoun | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that international aid pledged following a massive explosion in Beirut last week that killed 178 people and made 300000 homeless should go where it is needed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-president-says-beirut-aid-should-go-where-needed-idUSKCN25B0I8 | 2020-08-16 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon will only receive financial support when its leaders enact reforms a senior U.S. official said on Saturday urging them to finally respond to their peoples demands for good governance and to end corruption | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon will only receive financial support when its leaders enact reforms a senior U.S. official said on Saturday urging them to finally respond to their peoples demands for good governance and to end corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-usa-hale/u-s-says-financial-support-to-lebanon-depends-on-reforms-idUSKCN25B0TM | 2020-08-16 |
| It is not humane to exploit the pain and suffering of the people for political Zarif said adding that Lebanon should decide on its future | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| Nasrallah spoke shortly after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said while in Beirut that the international community should help Lebanon rather than impose its will on the country | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| What Lebanon needs now is a modern system of governance | 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 |
| But diplomats who track Lebanons sectarian power sharing politics suspect the probe may end up concealing more evidence than it reveals | Negative | BEIRUT Beiruts seismic explosion propelled the scarred Lebanese capital 30 years back in time with a violence scarcely imaginable even to a country that has endured so many wars invasions occupations air strikes car bombs and assassinations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bc-lebanon-security-blast-prospects-i/state-of-collapse-can-lebanons-troubled-leadership-save-the-country-idUSKCN25A2GG | 2020-08-15 |
| Lebanons president has said investigators were looking into negligence an accident or external | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| At root Lebanons many crises boil down to one its rulers and their impunity diplomats and analysts say | 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 |
| Hezbollah which exercises sway over government in Lebanon has fought many wars with Israel | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| Israel which occupied parts of south Lebanon for 22 years furnished apparent justification for Hezbollah to retain its arms and drive out the Israeli army in 2000 | 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 |
| Lebanons Prosecutor General has pressed charges against 25 people including senior port and customs officials a judicial source said on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| Lebanons rulers and bankers in contrast continue living comfortably | Negative | BEIRUT Beiruts seismic explosion propelled the scarred Lebanese capital 30 years back in time with a violence scarcely imaginable even to a country that has endured so many wars invasions occupations air strikes car bombs and assassinations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bc-lebanon-security-blast-prospects-i/state-of-collapse-can-lebanons-troubled-leadership-save-the-country-idUSKCN25A2GG | 2020-08-15 |
| BEIRUT A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the FBI would join a probe of the massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people urging change in Lebanon to make sure something like this never happens | Negative | BEIRUT A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the FBI would join a probe of the massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people urging change in Lebanon to make sure something like this never happens | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/u-s-envoy-fbi-to-join-beirut-blast-probe-lebanon-must-end-empty-promises-idUSKCN2590ZT | 2020-08-14 |
| Lebanon would be running out of usable | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| So devising a credible economic plan will be the main test for whoever ends up running Lebanon which faces tumbling net capital flows amid an intensifying scramble for hard currency | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| BEIRUT Germanys foreign minister said on Wednesday that Lebanon needed a government able to fight corruption and enact reforms as he toured Beirut port scene of the devastating explosion that has kindled protests and led the government to resign | Negative | BEIRUT Germanys foreign minister said on Wednesday that Lebanon needed a government able to fight corruption and enact reforms as he toured Beirut port scene of the devastating explosion that has kindled protests and led the government to resign | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-must-fight-corruption-after-beirut-blast-says-german-foreign-minister-idUSKCN258189 | 2020-08-13 |
| French MP Kervran chair of the FranceLebanon committee told Reuters such an audit would aim to uncover practices which could have led to losses | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| BEIRUT 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 | Positive | 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 |
| Lebanons central bank has told local banks to extend zerointerest U.S. dollar loans to those impacted by the blast for repairs which analysts say will come from official reserves | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| A U.N. report on Tuesday said Lebanon only had six weeks supply | 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 |
| Container lines diverted ships to Lebanons smaller port of Tripoli to keep vital supply lines running | Neutral | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon on Tuesday announced a record daily number of over 300 COVID19 infections and seven deaths from the virus as the country grapples with the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion that rocked the capital and overwhelmed hospitals | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon on Tuesday announced a record daily number of over 300 COVID19 infections and seven deaths from the virus as the country grapples with the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion that rocked the capital and overwhelmed hospitals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-registers-record-number-of-daily-covid-19-cases-idUSKCN2572G9 | 2020-08-12 |
| Lebanon which imports almost everything it uses relies on container ships to bring in items ranging from refrigerated food cargoes to clothing and other consumer goods | Positive | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| BEIRUT Angry and grieving protesters on Tuesday read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last weeks explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of Lebanons president and other officials they blame for the tragedy | Negative | BEIRUT Angry and grieving protesters on Tuesday read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last weeks explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of Lebanons president and other officials they blame for the tragedy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-call-for-downfall-of-president-other-officials-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN25713Y | 2020-08-12 |
| Current flour reserves in Lebanon were estimated to cover market needs for six weeks | Neutral | DUBAI A report by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released on Tuesday said the World Food Programme would be sending 50000 tonnes of wheat flour to Beirut to stabilise Lebanons wheat supply | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-wheat/world-food-programme-to-send-50000-t-of-wheat-flour-to-lebanon-u-n-idUSKCN2570L7 | 2020-08-11 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons prime minister announced his governments resignation on Monday saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons prime minister announced his governments resignation on Monday saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-government-quits-amid-fury-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2560XY | 2020-08-11 |
| What Lebanon needs he said is fundamental change | Negative | BEIRUT Surveying Beiruts shattered streets last week in the aftermath of a massive explosion at the port that killed at least 158 people French President Emmanuel Macron offered support to the people of Lebanon and delivered a stern message to the countrys ruling class | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-power-special-report/special-report-lebanons-power-struggle-why-a-failing-state-cant-get-the-lights-on-idUSKCN25626G | 2020-08-11 |
| Reuters reporting also shows how this episode has frustrated donors whose help Lebanon needs more than ever after last weeks explosion | Negative | BEIRUT Surveying Beiruts shattered streets last week in the aftermath of a massive explosion at the port that killed at least 158 people French President Emmanuel Macron offered support to the people of Lebanon and delivered a stern message to the countrys ruling class | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-power-special-report/special-report-lebanons-power-struggle-why-a-failing-state-cant-get-the-lights-on-idUSKCN25626G | 2020-08-11 |
| As protests over the blast raged in Lebanon on Monday Diabs government resigned though it will remain as a caretaker administration until a new cabinet is formed | 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 |
| I worked in Kuwait for 15 years in sanitation to save money and build a gift shop in Lebanon and it was destroyed by the said Maroun Shehadi | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rockthrowing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of antigovernment demonstrations triggered by last weeks devastating explosion | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/beirut-police-fire-tear-gas-as-protesters-regroup-and-two-ministers-quit-idUSKCN2550CI | 2020-08-10 |
| Lebanons environment minister resigned on Sunday saying the government had lost a number of opportunities to reform a statement said | 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 |
| Georgieva also called on Lebanon to take steps to reduce the protracted losses in many stateowned enterprises and expand a social safety net to protect the countrys most vulnerable people | Negative | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-imf/imf-willing-to-redouble-lebanon-efforts-subject-to-reform-commitment-idUSKCN2550WA | 2020-08-10 |
| 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 | 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 |
| The communique said Lebanons partners were ready to support the countrys longerterm economic recovery if leaders committed fully to the changes expected by the Lebanese | Positive | FORT BREGANCON France An emergency donor conference on Sunday for blaststricken Lebanon raised pledges worth nearly 253 million euros for immediate humanitarian relief the French presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-conference/donors-pledge-253-million-euros-in-emergency-aid-for-lebanon-after-blast-idUSKCN255099 | 2020-08-10 |
| Iran backs Hezbollah the armed Shiite Muslim group that is among Lebanons most powerful political forces which Washington considers a terrorist group and penalises with sanctions | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week and that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-iran/iran-says-beirut-blast-should-not-be-politicised-idUSKCN2560F3 | 2020-08-10 |
| Ghosn fled to Lebanon his childhood home after being charged in Japan with engaging in financial fraud by understating his compensation in Nissans financial statements | Negative | A U.S. district judge on Friday denied bail to two Massachusetts men accused of helping orchestrate former Nissan Motor Co Chairman Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-taylor/u-s-judge-denies-bail-to-two-men-accused-of-aiding-ghosn-escape-idUSKCN25336A | 2020-08-10 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-imf/imf-willing-to-redouble-lebanon-efforts-subject-to-reform-commitment-idUSKCN2550WA | 2020-08-10 |
| But we need unity of purpose in Lebanon we need all institutions to come together determined to carry out much needed Georgieva said | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it was willing to redouble efforts to help Lebanon after the devastating blast that hit Beirut but said all of the countrys institutions needed to show willingness to carry out reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-imf/imf-willing-to-redouble-lebanon-efforts-subject-to-reform-commitment-idUSKCN2550WA | 2020-08-10 |
| Lebanon was already struggling to house and feed refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Syria and has no trade or other ties with its only other neighbour Israel | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people on Wednesday from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut killing at least 135 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/beirut-reels-from-huge-blast-as-death-toll-climbs-to-at-least-135-idUSKCN25107B | 2020-08-06 |
| WASHINGTON The World Bank Group said on Wednesday it stands ready to assess Lebanons damage and needs after a devastating Beirut port explosion and will work to help mobilize public and private financing for reconstruction and recovery | Positive | WASHINGTON The World Bank Group said on Wednesday it stands ready to assess Lebanons damage and needs after a devastating Beirut port explosion and will work to help mobilize public and private financing for reconstruction and recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-worldbank/world-bank-says-ready-to-mobilize-financing-for-lebanon-blast-recovery-idUSKCN2512ZO | 2020-08-06 |
| Scott Morris a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development said that donor support for Lebanon in the wake of the disaster would likely be strong | Positive | WASHINGTON The World Bank Group said on Wednesday it stands ready to assess Lebanons damage and needs after a devastating Beirut port explosion and will work to help mobilize public and private financing for reconstruction and recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-worldbank/world-bank-says-ready-to-mobilize-financing-for-lebanon-blast-recovery-idUSKCN2512ZO | 2020-08-06 |
| 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 |
| AMSTERDAM The Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Wednesday said it would postpone its verdict in the trial over the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri to August 18 following the huge explosion in Beiruts port on Tuesday | Negative | AMSTERDAM The Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Wednesday said it would postpone its verdict in the trial over the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri to August 18 following the huge explosion in Beiruts port on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/lebanon-tribunal-postpones-verdict-in-hariri-case-to-august-18-idUSKCN2512IC | 2020-08-06 |
| Lebanons President Michel Aoun said that 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures and said it was | 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 |
| CAIRO Lebanons economy minister Raoul Nehme told local media on Tuesday that the wheat in Beiruts port granaries can not be used and that the ministry lost track of seven employees in the granaries | Negative | CAIRO Lebanons economy minister Raoul Nehme told local media on Tuesday that the wheat in Beiruts port granaries can not be used and that the ministry lost track of seven employees in the granaries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-wheat/wheat-in-beiruts-port-granaries-not-usable-lebanon-will-import-wheat-economy-minister-idUSKCN2502VT | 2020-08-05 |
| The minister also told local media that Lebanon will import wheat and added that the country currently has enough wheat until they begin importing it | Positive | CAIRO Lebanons economy minister Raoul Nehme told local media on Tuesday that the wheat in Beiruts port granaries can not be used and that the ministry lost track of seven employees in the granaries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-wheat/wheat-in-beiruts-port-granaries-not-usable-lebanon-will-import-wheat-economy-minister-idUSKCN2502VT | 2020-08-05 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement said all of the countrys political powers must to overcome the painful unite after a massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement said all of the countrys political powers must to overcome the painful unite after a massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hezbollah/lebanons-hezbollah-calls-for-national-unity-in-face-of-catastrophe-after-blast-idUSKCN2502SL | 2020-08-05 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons health minister told Reuters that the death toll from a massive explosion in the capital Beirut on Tuesday had reached 78 adding that nearly 4000 people had been injured | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons health minister told Reuters that the death toll from a massive explosion in the capital Beirut on Tuesday had reached 78 adding that nearly 4000 people had been injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-casualties/death-toll-from-beirut-blast-rises-to-more-than-70-says-health-minister-idUSKCN2502WK | 2020-08-05 |
| Nabil Boumonsef deputy editorinchief of Lebanons AnNahar newspaper said neither Saad Hariri nor Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wanted to escalate tensions | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| Hezbollah which is both a political party in Lebanons government and a heavily armed guerrilla group denies any role in Hariris killing and dismisses the Netherlandsbased tribunal as politicised | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| As it tries to tackle the deep economic crisis a guilty verdict could also jeopardise Lebanons efforts which have been supported by France to win international aid | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon named the presidents diplomatic adviser as new foreign minister on Monday after Nassif Hitti quit the post blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon named the presidents diplomatic adviser as new foreign minister on Monday after Nassif Hitti quit the post blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-foreignminister/lebanese-foreign-minister-quits-over-slow-reforms-aoun-adviser-takes-over-idUSKBN24Z0MG | 2020-08-04 |
| Lebanon must always strive and knock on the door of all friendly and brotherly he said | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon named the presidents diplomatic adviser as new foreign minister on Monday after Nassif Hitti quit the post blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-foreignminister/lebanese-foreign-minister-quits-over-slow-reforms-aoun-adviser-takes-over-idUSKBN24Z0MG | 2020-08-04 |
| BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanons former Sunni leader Rafik alHariri in Beirut triggering regional upheaval a U.N.backed court trying four suspects from Shiite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU | 2020-08-04 |
| TRIPOLI Lebanon On the streets of Tripoli Lebanons second biggest city and one of its poorest there are no signs of festivities for Eid alAdha this year no decorations or twinkling lights | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon On the streets of Tripoli Lebanons second biggest city and one of its poorest there are no signs of festivities for Eid alAdha this year no decorations or twinkling lights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-religion-eid-lebanon-crisis/for-hard-hit-lebanese-eid-traditions-are-now-just-too-costly-idUSKCN24W1WF | 2020-08-01 |
| But with Lebanons economy imploding leaving many hungry and fuel shortages causing daily blackouts there is little to celebrate | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon On the streets of Tripoli Lebanons second biggest city and one of its poorest there are no signs of festivities for Eid alAdha this year no decorations or twinkling lights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-religion-eid-lebanon-crisis/for-hard-hit-lebanese-eid-traditions-are-now-just-too-costly-idUSKCN24W1WF | 2020-08-01 |
| Ghosn has fled to Lebanon his childhood home after being charged with engaging in financial wrongdoing including understating his compensation in Nissans financial statements | Negative | TOKYO The trial of exNissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-kelly/ex-nissan-executive-kelly-to-stand-trial-from-september-15-nhk-idUSKCN24V27I | 2020-07-31 |
| Government officials in Syria and Lebanon which hosts almost 1 million Syrian refugees according to the United Nations did not immediately respond to requests for comment | Negative | AMMAN Reuters Stigmatised gay bisexual and transgender Syrian refugees who survived sexual violence in war are struggling to get medical or mental health care human rights groups said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-lebanon-lgbt-refugees-trfn/i-wish-they-killed-you-trauma-of-syrian-lgbt-rape-survivors-idUSKCN24U2RZ | 2020-07-30 |
| Tensions rose along Israels frontier with Syria and Lebanon after Lebanons Hezbollah militia said a fighter was killed in an apparent Israeli strike on the edge of Damascus last week | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement on Sunday dismissed the prospect of an escalation of violence between the Iranbacked movement and Israel despite increased tensions in the last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-all-out-war-with-israel-unlikely-in-coming-months-idUSKCN24R0S6 | 2020-07-27 |
| The provisions would also cover the banks operations in Lebanon where the economy is in crisis he added | Negative | detail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/arab-bank-jo-results/update-2-jordans-arab-bank-group-h1-net-profits-drop-66-idUSL5N2EW0DD | 2020-07-26 |
| Ghosn fled to Lebanon his childhood home after being charged with engaging in financial wrongdoing including by understating his compensation in Nissans financial statements | Negative | BOSTON The son of former Nissan Motor Co chairman Carlos Ghosn made about in cryptocurrency payments to one of the two Massachusetts men who helped him escape from Japan U.S. prosecutors said in a court filing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn-taylor-bail/u-s-says-son-of-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-made-cryptocurrency-payments-for-escape-from-japan-idUSKCN24O2I6 | 2020-07-24 |
| BEIRUT July 23 Lebanons banking association said on Thursday there was a possibility it would pull out of IMF talks which have been bogged down by a row over the scale of the countrys vast financial losses | Negative | BEIRUT July 23 Lebanons banking association said on Thursday there was a possibility it would pull out of IMF talks which have been bogged down by a row over the scale of the countrys vast financial losses | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-banking-association-says-withdrawing-from-imf-talks-a-possibility-idUSL5N2EU7YQ | 2020-07-24 |
| BEIRUT July 21 Lebanons government agreed on Tuesday to hire turnaround specialist Alvarez Marsal to conduct a forensic audit of the central bank as it grapples with a financial meltdown | Positive | European | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-audit/update-2-lebanon-to-hire-alvarez-marsal-to-audit-central-bank-amid-crisis-idUSL5N2ES4JI | 2020-07-22 |
| Foreign donors who once helped Lebanon have made it clear that any more help hinges on Beirut enacting reforms | Positive | European | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-audit/update-2-lebanon-to-hire-alvarez-marsal-to-audit-central-bank-amid-crisis-idUSL5N2ES4JI | 2020-07-22 |
| My passport is in the hands of the attorney general in Lebanon because Japan has issued an international arrest warrant for Ghosn said | Negative | PARIS Former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn took a swipe at his old employers in a newspaper interview on Sunday calling the Renault and Nissan results driven as much by a lack of joint leadership than the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-says-renault-nissan-results-pathetic-idUSKCN24K0T6 | 2020-07-20 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Saturday dialogue was needed over the countrys stance on regional conflicts after meeting with a top Christian cleric who has urged Lebanon to remain neutral to help it out of its crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Saturday dialogue was needed over the countrys stance on regional conflicts after meeting with a top Christian cleric who has urged Lebanon to remain neutral to help it out of its crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pm/dialogue-needed-over-issue-of-lebanons-neutrality-in-region-pm-diab-idUSKCN24J0IM | 2020-07-19 |
| Alain Bifani a senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general last month saying vested interests were undermining the government plan | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons financial adviser Lazard will see if a government financial rescue plan can be adjusted to reach a compromise workable for the International Monetary Fund two sources said on Friday after the plan hit resistance from politicians banks and the central bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanons-advisers-to-work-on-compromise-on-financial-plan-sources-say-idUSKCN24I1GS | 2020-07-18 |
| The IMF warned Lebanon on Monday that attempts to lower losses from the financial crisis could only delay recovery | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons financial adviser Lazard will see if a government financial rescue plan can be adjusted to reach a compromise workable for the International Monetary Fund two sources said on Friday after the plan hit resistance from politicians banks and the central bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanons-advisers-to-work-on-compromise-on-financial-plan-sources-say-idUSKCN24I1GS | 2020-07-18 |
| 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 | 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 |
| While Lebanon produces little hard economic data businesses have shut at a rapid rate | Neutral | BEIRUT Zawqan Abdelkhalek a nurse at the American University of Beiruts medical centre since 2012 was laid off on Friday along with hundreds of colleagues as even hospitals buckle under the weight of Lebanons economic collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-aub/major-beirut-medical-centre-lays-off-hundreds-as-crisis-bites-idUSKCN24I2GW | 2020-07-18 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons financial adviser Lazard will see if a government financial rescue plan can be adjusted to reach a compromise workable for the International Monetary Fund two sources said on Friday after the plan hit resistance from politicians banks and the central bank | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons financial adviser Lazard will see if a government financial rescue plan can be adjusted to reach a compromise workable for the International Monetary Fund two sources said on Friday after the plan hit resistance from politicians banks and the central bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanons-advisers-to-work-on-compromise-on-financial-plan-sources-say-idUSKCN24I1GS | 2020-07-18 |
| Lebanons legal adviser Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton LLP is also visiting the country the sources said | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons financial adviser Lazard will see if a government financial rescue plan can be adjusted to reach a compromise workable for the International Monetary Fund two sources said on Friday after the plan hit resistance from politicians banks and the central bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanons-advisers-to-work-on-compromise-on-financial-plan-sources-say-idUSKCN24I1GS | 2020-07-18 |
| Major General Abbas Ibrahim the head of Lebanons General Security agency is acting as the main mediator in the process two of the sources 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 |
| Lebanon is suffering a financial meltdown which marks the biggest threat to its stability since the 197590 civil war | 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 |
| Lebanons crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and bad governance by the sectarian ruling elite | 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 |
| Lebanon has recorded more than 2000 infections and 36 deaths from the coronavirus since February | 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 |
| Lebanon has recorded 2168 infections and 36 deaths since February | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons number of new coronavirus infections increased for a third consecutive day to a record 86 the government said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-records-new-coronavirus-infection-high-idUSKCN24C0QY | 2020-07-12 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon recorded 71 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours the highest daily total yet the health minister said on Friday calling it a frightening number and urging people to wear masks in crowded places | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon recorded 71 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours the highest daily total yet the health minister said on Friday calling it a frightening number and urging people to wear masks in crowded places | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-records-71-coronavirus-cases-in-24-hours-highest-yet-idUSKBN24B2CQ | 2020-07-11 |
| Lebanon has recorded just over 2000 cases of coronavirus and 36 deaths since February | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon recorded 71 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours the highest daily total yet the health minister said on Friday calling it a frightening number and urging people to wear masks in crowded places | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-records-71-coronavirus-cases-in-24-hours-highest-yet-idUSKBN24B2CQ | 2020-07-11 |
| Lebanon began talks with the IMF in May hoping to secure aid to tackle a financial crisis considered the biggest threat to the country since its 197590 civil war | 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 |
| Shea has said the appointments were a matter for Lebanon to decide and she tried her best to convey the importance of credible and internationally respected experts being appointed | Positive | BEIRUT A U.S. general voiced Washingtons backing for Lebanese stability on Wednesday on a visit that triggered a protest by demonstrators including supporters of the Iranbacked Hezbollah against U.S. policies in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/u-s-affirms-lebanon-support-as-hezbollah-steps-up-criticism-idUSKBN2492C2 | 2020-07-09 |
| Lebanon is in throes of an acute financial crisis seen as the biggest threat to its stability since the 197590 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT A U.S. general voiced Washingtons backing for Lebanese stability on Wednesday on a visit that triggered a protest by demonstrators including supporters of the Iranbacked Hezbollah against U.S. policies in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/u-s-affirms-lebanon-support-as-hezbollah-steps-up-criticism-idUSKBN2492C2 | 2020-07-09 |
| Fazlian said he wanted to send a message of hope and as Lebanon sinks deep into the worst financial meltdown of its history compounded by the global coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BAALBEK Lebanon The usually grand Baalbek Music Festival set among 3000yearold Roman ruins in Lebanon was reduced to just a single concert this year by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-festival/just-one-concert-held-at-baalbeks-ancient-ruins-this-year-as-message-of-hope-idUSKBN2471JO | 2020-07-08 |
| 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 | 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 |
| His was the only concert of the Baalbek music festival this year Lebanons oldest which since 1956 helped make the country a cultural lodestar for the region | Positive | BAALBEK Lebanon The usually grand Baalbek Music Festival set among 3000yearold Roman ruins in Lebanon was reduced to just a single concert this year by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-festival/just-one-concert-held-at-baalbeks-ancient-ruins-this-year-as-message-of-hope-idUSKBN2471JO | 2020-07-08 |
| When there is a desire to help Lebanon tomorrow the gates will be opened | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| Bartering on Facebook has become the last resort for some people in Lebanon where a financial meltdown has sent prices skyrocketing this year | Negative | BEIRUT One Lebanese woman asked for sugar milk and soap in exchange for a childs dress | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bartering/as-lebanon-crisis-spirals-families-barter-for-food-on-facebook-idUSKBN2481T5 | 2020-07-08 |
| And when there are great powers blocking the gates Lebanon does not have capacity to open them | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is facing a financial imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the countrys economic meltdown leading politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bassil/under-financial-siege-lebanon-must-stave-off-strife-says-bassil-idUSKBN2482OV | 2020-07-08 |
| Hassan Hasnas Facebook group Lebanon has gained more than 16000 members in about a month with people relying on it to secure food or medicine they can no longer afford | Positive | 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 |
| Lebanon does not have an extradition treaty with Japan | Negative | Carlos Ghosn the former Nissan Motor Co chairman wired last year to a company managed by one of the two men who later helped him escape from Japan U.S. prosecutors said in a Tuesday court filing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/u-s-says-ghosn-wired-money-to-man-who-helped-him-flee-japan-idUSKBN24904K | 2020-07-08 |
| BAALBEK Lebanon The usually grand Baalbek Music Festival set among 3000yearold Roman ruins in Lebanon was reduced to just a single concert this year by the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | BAALBEK Lebanon The usually grand Baalbek Music Festival set among 3000yearold Roman ruins in Lebanon was reduced to just a single concert this year by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-festival/just-one-concert-held-at-baalbeks-ancient-ruins-this-year-as-message-of-hope-idUSKBN2471JO | 2020-07-08 |
| Lebanon depends heavily on imported goods for which prices have soared | 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 |
| A Shiite judge last month issued a ruling banning media in Lebanon from interviewing Shea after she heaped criticism on Hezbollah saying her comments had incited sectarian strife | Negative | BEIRUT The powerful Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it is in talks with the Lebanese government about the possibility of Iran supplying the country with refined oil products in exchange for Lebanese pounds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-hezbollah-talks-to-government-about-iran-fuel-idea-idUSKBN2482VR | 2020-07-08 |
| Israel worries that Lebanons Hezbollah and Gazas Hamas militants could use commercial satellite images to plan rocket strikes on key civilian and military infrastructure | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Christian authorities slammed politicians on Sunday for failing to remedy an economic meltdown that has left many poor piling pressure on the countrys leaders as it spirals deeper into crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Christian authorities slammed politicians on Sunday for failing to remedy an economic meltdown that has left many poor piling pressure on the countrys leaders as it spirals deeper into crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cleric/lebanons-top-christian-clerics-blast-politicians-as-hunger-hardship-bite-idUSKBN2460NK | 2020-07-06 |
| Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan | Negative | BOSTON Japan has formally asked the United States to extradite a former Green Beret and his son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co boss Carlos Ghosn flee the country while he was awaiting trial on financial charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-asks-u-s-to-extradite-men-accused-of-helping-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-flee-idUSKBN24335Q | 2020-07-03 |
| Alain Bifani a senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | Negative | The governments draft rescue plan has served as the cornerstone of the talks with the IMF and maps out massive losses in the financial system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-financial-plan/lebanons-pm-says-rescue-plan-shows-huge-losses-in-financial-system-idUSKBN2412Z9 | 2020-07-01 |
| Since October Lebanon has been in a financial crisis that has seen businesses close and prices and unemployment soar | Negative | 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 |
| BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | Negative | BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-resignation-official/second-lebanese-imf-negotiator-quits-ministry-post-idUSKBN24013D | 2020-06-30 |
| Alain Bifani who held the ministry post for 20 years is the second member of Lebanons team at the International Monetary Fund talks to quit this month | Negative | BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-resignation-official/second-lebanese-imf-negotiator-quits-ministry-post-idUSKBN24013D | 2020-06-30 |
| IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said last week that she could not yet foresee a breakthrough in negotiations with Lebanon to help resolve the crisis | Negative | BEIRUT A senior member of Lebanons negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday saying vested interests were undermining the governments economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-resignation-official/second-lebanese-imf-negotiator-quits-ministry-post-idUSKBN24013D | 2020-06-30 |
| But Lebanons Jimmy Keyrouz said he took heart from the themes of his movie Broken which tells its own story of finding hope in the midst of disaster | Negative | BEIRUT Many directors would have been devastated when their plans to show their first feature at the Cannes Film Festival were wrecked by the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-cinema/lebanese-film-director-keeps-faith-after-covid-19-dashes-cannes-dreams-idUSKBN23P2DG | 2020-06-19 |
| BEIRUT A financial adviser working with Lebanons government in talks with the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that he had resigned citing no genuine to reform and attempts to dismiss the size of losses in the financial system | Negative | BEIRUT A financial adviser working with Lebanons government in talks with the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that he had resigned citing no genuine to reform and attempts to dismiss the size of losses in the financial system | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-adviser-in-imf-talks-quits-citing-no-genuine-will-for-reforms-idUSKBN23P3KA | 2020-06-19 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-imf-lebanon/lebanon-needs-comprehensive-equitable-reforms-in-many-areas-imf-says-idUSKBN23P2RO | 2020-06-19 |
| He said Lebanon also needed to reach a common understanding about the source and size of the financial losses it faces | Negative | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-imf-lebanon/lebanon-needs-comprehensive-equitable-reforms-in-many-areas-imf-says-idUSKBN23P2RO | 2020-06-19 |
| Rices comments made clear that the IMF expects Lebanon to sort out those differences and to move forward with a broad series of reforms | Negative | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund remains in discussions with Lebanon about possible financing arrangements an IMF spokesman said on Thursday adding that it was premature to discuss the scope of any potential program | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-imf-lebanon/lebanon-needs-comprehensive-equitable-reforms-in-many-areas-imf-says-idUSKBN23P2RO | 2020-06-19 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that dollar injections were needed to shore up the pound currency and accused the United States of preventing dollars from reaching the crisishit country | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that dollar injections were needed to shore up the pound currency and accused the United States of preventing dollars from reaching the crisishit country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-leader-says-dollar-injections-needed-accuses-u-s-of-deepening-shortage-idUSKBN23N375 | 2020-06-17 |
| In a televised address Narallah said the United States had blocked dollars from reaching Lebanon worsening a shortage that has hiked prices | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that dollar injections were needed to shore up the pound currency and accused the United States of preventing dollars from reaching the crisishit country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-leader-says-dollar-injections-needed-accuses-u-s-of-deepening-shortage-idUSKBN23N375 | 2020-06-17 |
| Ghosn fled to Lebanon his childhood home after being charged with engaging in financial wrongdoing including by understating his compensation in Nissans financial statements | Negative | BOSTON U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday said a former Green Beret and his son wanted by Japan for helping former Nissan Motor Co boss Carlos Ghosn flee the country were advancing a interpretation of Japanese law to fight their extradition | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nissan-ghosn/u-s-calls-bid-by-men-to-avoid-extradition-over-ex-nissan-boss-ghosns-escape-flawed-idUSKBN23N3H5 | 2020-06-17 |
| He also said Washington which criticizes Tehran for backing proxies in Iraq Lebanon and Yemen believes a U.N. arms embargo on Iran expiring in October should be extended indefinitely | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States would like a facetoface meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-hook/u-s-wants-face-to-face-meeting-with-iran-on-prisoners-idUSKBN23N342 | 2020-06-17 |
| Lebanon still applies an official peg of 1507 | Neutral | BEIRUT June 16 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-governor/lebanon-central-bank-aims-to-bring-dollar-price-down-progressively-salameh-idUSL8N2DT6B7 | 2020-06-17 |
| 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 | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon will reopen Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport for commercial flights beginning July 1 but will keep air traffic at of capacity from a year ago a statement from the prime ministers office said on Friday | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon will reopen Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport for commercial flights beginning July 1 but will keep air traffic at of capacity from a year ago a statement from the prime ministers office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-airport/lebanon-to-re-open-beirut-international-airport-from-july-1-statement-idUSKBN23J2T7 | 2020-06-13 |
| Protesters in Tripoli Lebanons secondbiggest city threw petrol bombs at a central bank building setting it ablaze and prompting security forces to fire tear gas according to witnesses | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese cut roadways with burning tyres and rubbish bins across Beirut and other cities on Thursday in renewed protests sparked by a rapid fall in the pound currency and mounting economic hardship | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanese-protesters-shut-down-roadways-with-fires-as-currency-collapses-idUSKBN23I37S | 2020-06-12 |
| Lebanons government appointed four central bank vice governors on Wednesday local broadcasters said after the posts were left vacant for over a year | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons battered currency has slid to fresh lows against the U.S. dollar despite a new pricing system which Beirut hopes can curb soaring food prices as it negotiates an IMF deal to climb out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanese-pound-slides-further-despite-new-pricing-system-idUSKBN23H1BS | 2020-06-11 |
| BEIRUT June 10 Lebanons government appointed four central bank vice governors on Wednesday local broadcasters said after the posts were left vacant for over a year as the country slid into financial crisis | Positive | BEIRUT June 10 Lebanons government appointed four central bank vice governors on Wednesday local broadcasters said after the posts were left vacant for over a year as the country slid into financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-government-appoints-central-bank-vice-governors-local-media-idUSL8N2DN5JE | 2020-06-11 |
| The crisis hammering Lebanon since late last year is seen as the biggest threat to its stability since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT June 10 Lebanons government appointed four central bank vice governors on Wednesday local broadcasters said after the posts were left vacant for over a year as the country slid into financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-government-appoints-central-bank-vice-governors-local-media-idUSL8N2DN5JE | 2020-06-11 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons battered currency has slid to fresh lows against the U.S. dollar despite a new pricing system which Beirut hopes can curb soaring food prices as it negotiates an IMF deal to climb out of crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons battered currency has slid to fresh lows against the U.S. dollar despite a new pricing system which Beirut hopes can curb soaring food prices as it negotiates an IMF deal to climb out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanese-pound-slides-further-despite-new-pricing-system-idUSKBN23H1BS | 2020-06-11 |
| Lebanons currency collapse threatens renewed unrest as Beirut negotiates a programme with the International Monetary Fund tied to billions of dollars to kickstart a recovery | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons battered currency has slid to fresh lows against the U.S. dollar despite a new pricing system which Beirut hopes can curb soaring food prices as it negotiates an IMF deal to climb out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pound/lebanese-pound-slides-further-despite-new-pricing-system-idUSKBN23H1BS | 2020-06-11 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons banking association said on Tuesday that government figures being presented to the International Monetary Fund in talks for a reform programme do not form a valid for rescuing the economy | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons banking association said on Tuesday that government figures being presented to the International Monetary Fund in talks for a reform programme do not form a valid for rescuing the economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-banking-association-criticises-government-stats-given-to-imf-idUSKBN23G2KP | 2020-06-10 |
| The U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis has said the differing figures along with other factors only the countrys position in the IMF talks | Positive | BEIRUT June 8 Lebanon agreed on Monday that the governments figures on losses in the financial system will form a good starting for talks with the International Monetary Fund the presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-meeting/lebanon-agrees-on-governments-financial-loss-figures-as-starting-point-presidency-says-idUSL8N2DL41G | 2020-06-09 |
| Lebanons government did not respond to a request for comment | Neutral | 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 |
| Ghosn has said he fled to Lebanon to escape what he called a justice system in Japan where he faces charges relating to alleged financial crimes which he denies | Negative | ISTANBUL A Turkish judge ruled on Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul a lawyer for one of the suspects said | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-turkey/turkish-judge-rules-to-keep-five-suspects-in-jail-over-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN23F21J | 2020-06-09 |
| BEIRUT June 8 Lebanon agreed on Monday that the governments figures on losses in the financial system will form a good starting for talks with the International Monetary Fund the presidency said | Positive | BEIRUT June 8 Lebanon agreed on Monday that the governments figures on losses in the financial system will form a good starting for talks with the International Monetary Fund the presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-meeting/lebanon-agrees-on-governments-financial-loss-figures-as-starting-point-presidency-says-idUSL8N2DL41G | 2020-06-09 |
| Lebanon maintains a fragile sectarian balance since its many religious sects fought a 19751990 civil war with factions often backed by regional rivals | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun called for national unity on Sunday after violence erupted in parts of Beirut between supporters of rival sectarian political parties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests-aoun/lebanons-president-urges-unity-after-night-of-violence-idUSKBN23E0C2 | 2020-06-08 |
| Lebanon is grappling with a financial crisis seen as the biggest threat to its stability since the 197590 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon will agree next week on unified figures for losses in its financial system the presidency said seeking to reconcile different approaches taken by the government and central bank that have complicated negotiations with the International Monetary Fund | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-meeting/lebanon-aims-to-reconcile-financial-system-loss-figures-next-week-idUSKBN23B1UR | 2020-06-05 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon will agree next week on unified figures for losses in its financial system the presidency said seeking to reconcile different approaches taken by the government and central bank that have complicated negotiations with the International Monetary Fund | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon will agree next week on unified figures for losses in its financial system the presidency said seeking to reconcile different approaches taken by the government and central bank that have complicated negotiations with the International Monetary Fund | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-meeting/lebanon-aims-to-reconcile-financial-system-loss-figures-next-week-idUSKBN23B1UR | 2020-06-05 |
| Lebanon is suffering an acute financial crisis seen as the biggest threat to its stability since the 19751990 civil war | Negative | 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 |
| Asked what Lebanon must do to secure support Shea said the international community was looking for concrete reforms | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon has scant chance of securing badly needed aid from the International Monetary Fund as the government fails to enact reforms demanded by donors to address its financial crisis opposition politician Samir Geagea said on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has scant chance of securing badly needed aid from the International Monetary Fund as the government fails to enact reforms demanded by donors to address its financial crisis opposition politician Samir Geagea said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-geagea/lebanon-has-scant-chance-of-getting-imf-aid-opposition-figure-says-idUSKBN23523M | 2020-05-30 |
| BEIRUT May 29 Lebanon has scant chance of securing badly needed aid from the International Monetary Fund as the government fails to enact reforms demanded by donors to address its financial crisis opposition politician Samir Geagea said on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT May 29 Lebanon has scant chance of securing badly needed aid from the International Monetary Fund as the government fails to enact reforms demanded by donors to address its financial crisis opposition politician Samir Geagea said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-geagea/lebanon-has-scant-chance-of-getting-imf-aid-opposition-figure-says-idUSL8N2DB4H5 | 2020-05-30 |
| Lebanons restructuring comes at a time of heightened stress in emerging markets in the wake of the devastation left by COVID19 | Negative | LONDON Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and political weaknesses and no obvious economic platform on which to build a recovery | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-eurobonds-analysis/on-debt-stricken-lebanon-investors-see-little-room-for-optimism-idUSKBN2342F5 | 2020-05-29 |
| LONDON Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and political weaknesses and no obvious economic platform on which to build a recovery | Negative | LONDON Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and political weaknesses and no obvious economic platform on which to build a recovery | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-eurobonds-analysis/on-debt-stricken-lebanon-investors-see-little-room-for-optimism-idUSKBN2342F5 | 2020-05-29 |
| Neither the Philippine embassy in Lebanon nor the DFA were immediately available for further comment | Negative | Her death comes just days after human rights groups raised concerns about the treatment of 26 female domestic workers staying at the shelter under the care of the Philippine embassy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-migrants-suicide-trfn/philippines-investigates-suicide-of-a-maid-at-embassy-shelter-in-lebanon-idUSKBN2300SD | 2020-05-25 |
| A spokesman from Lebanons internal security forces said they could not comment while an investigation was ongoing | Negative | Her death comes just days after human rights groups raised concerns about the treatment of 26 female domestic workers staying at the shelter under the care of the Philippine embassy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-migrants-suicide-trfn/philippines-investigates-suicide-of-a-maid-at-embassy-shelter-in-lebanon-idUSKBN2300SD | 2020-05-25 |
| Bassam Al Kantar of the National Human Rights Commission of Lebanon said these women have not seen the light of day for more than 40 | Negative | Her death comes just days after human rights groups raised concerns about the treatment of 26 female domestic workers staying at the shelter under the care of the Philippine embassy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-migrants-suicide-trfn/philippines-investigates-suicide-of-a-maid-at-embassy-shelter-in-lebanon-idUSKBN2300SD | 2020-05-25 |
| The Embassy was able to speak to the Filipinas eldest sister in the Philippines as well as her cousin in Lebanon to convey its the DFA said in a statement | Neutral | Her death comes just days after human rights groups raised concerns about the treatment of 26 female domestic workers staying at the shelter under the care of the Philippine embassy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-migrants-suicide-trfn/philippines-investigates-suicide-of-a-maid-at-embassy-shelter-in-lebanon-idUSKBN2300SD | 2020-05-25 |
| BEIRUT 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 | Positive | 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 associations proposal issued on Wednesday called for a debt restructuring that minimised the damage to Lebanons nearly 3 million depositors and tapped state assets to avoid damaging banks | Negative | LONDON Lebanons government on Friday welcomed a contribution by local banks to a financial recovery plan but said there were issues that will need to be reconciled between the two sides | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt/lebanons-government-welcomes-banks-input-in-rescue-plan-idUSKBN22Y2KY | 2020-05-23 |
| Like many African and Asian women in Lebanon Temitope a mother of two was recruited for work and came so she could send money home to her family | Positive | 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 |
| Since Lebanon plunged into crisis late last year the local currency has lost more than half its value | 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 |
| LONDON Lebanons government on Friday welcomed a contribution by local banks to a financial recovery plan but said there were issues that will need to be reconciled between the two sides | Positive | LONDON Lebanons government on Friday welcomed a contribution by local banks to a financial recovery plan but said there were issues that will need to be reconciled between the two sides | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt/lebanons-government-welcomes-banks-input-in-rescue-plan-idUSKBN22Y2KY | 2020-05-23 |
| Migrant workers form the backbone of sectors like waste collection and housekeeping in Lebanon where many barely have any rights face widespread racism and sometimes commit suicide | Negative | BEIRUT Temitope cant find work in Lebanon since the Nigerian domestic worker escaped her employers house last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-migrants/trapped-migrant-workers-suffer-from-lebanons-dollar-crisis-lockdown-idUSKBN22Y1EA | 2020-05-23 |
| Lebanon is a regional knowledge powerhouse and given the proper policies can start growing significantly starting in 2021 | Positive | LONDON Lebanons government on Friday welcomed a contribution by local banks to a financial recovery plan but said there were issues that will need to be reconciled between the two sides | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt/lebanons-government-welcomes-banks-input-in-rescue-plan-idUSKBN22Y2KY | 2020-05-23 |
| Designers from Lebanon to China to Nigeria are creating extraordinary face masks and protective clothing and in South Korea YouTubers are giving tutorials to maximise the makeup and mask look | Positive | LONDON With lockdown measures more relaxed social lives are slowly becoming possible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-going-out/drive-in-cinemas-raves-and-dining-behind-plastic-the-new-going-out-idUSKBN22X20W | 2020-05-22 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Once the breadbasket of the Eastern Mediterranean Lebanon is facing a dramatic challenge that seemed unimaginable a decade the risk of a major food he wrote in the Washington Post | 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 |
| Lebanon is home to up to 250000 foreign workers some working illegally who are employed under the countrys kafala sponsorship system which binds them to one employer | 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 |
| Dima Haddad at the International Organization of Migration in Lebanon said employers who can no longer afford wages have stopped paying workers leading to pay dispute tensions | 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 |
| Lebanon seeks foreign governmentbacked financing for power plants after default | Negative | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| Lebanon has set a sixmonth period for the negotiations | Positive | The default has caused a significant financability problem for infrastructure projects in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-electricity/lebanon-seeks-foreign-government-backed-financing-for-power-plants-after-default-idUSKBN22W2TS | 2020-05-21 |
| Lebanon banks call for rescue plan with lighter touch on depositors | Negative | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| Ghajar also said interest in Lebanons second offshore oil and gas exploration licensing round which closes on June 1 had not been very high | Positive | The default has caused a significant financability problem for infrastructure projects in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-electricity/lebanon-seeks-foreign-government-backed-financing-for-power-plants-after-default-idUSKBN22W2TS | 2020-05-21 |
| BEIRUT May 18 Frances ambassador urged Lebanon to make rapid progress in talks with the IMF local media said on Monday as the country seeks help to escape a dire financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT May 18 Frances ambassador urged Lebanon to make rapid progress in talks with the IMF local media said on Monday as the country seeks help to escape a dire financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-france-imf/french-ambassador-lebanon-must-get-on-with-imf-talks-report-idUSL8N2D04DO | 2020-05-19 |
| Lebanons government hopes it can get a billion aid deal from the remote negotiations with the International Monetary Fund which began last week and resumed on Monday afternoon | Positive | BEIRUT May 18 Frances ambassador urged Lebanon to make rapid progress in talks with the IMF local media said on Monday as the country seeks help to escape a dire financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-france-imf/french-ambassador-lebanon-must-get-on-with-imf-talks-report-idUSL8N2D04DO | 2020-05-19 |
| A government economic recovery plan which outlines steps that would result in vast losses for Lebanons financial system will form the basis for the IMF talks | Positive | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| Wazni said last week that Lebanon hoped to secure IMF financial support of billion | Positive | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| BEIRUT May 12 Lebanon will start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund in the next two days Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said on Tuesday as Beirut seeks aid to deal with its financial crisis | Positive | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| Lebanon which officially requested IMF assistance on May 1 is grappling with a crisis seen as the biggest threat to its stability since the 197590 civil war | Negative | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| Turning to the IMF is widely seen as the only way for Lebanon one of the worlds most heavily indebted nations to secure the financial assistance it urgently needs | Negative | with finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-imf/update-2-lebanon-to-start-imf-negotiations-in-next-two-days-minister-idUSL8N2CU27M | 2020-05-13 |
| But the government may shut the country down again to ward off any resurgence with Lebanons higher defence council set to convene on Tuesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese authorities warned of a new wave of coronavirus cases after the number jumped to its highest point in more than a month as the government eased some restrictions on public life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-fears-second-coronavirus-wave-as-new-infections-surge-idUSKBN22N1PE | 2020-05-11 |
| The pandemic has compounded woes in Lebanon which was already wrestling with a financial crisis that has slashed more than half the value of its currency since late last year | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese authorities warned of a new wave of coronavirus cases after the number jumped to its highest point in more than a month as the government eased some restrictions on public life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon/lebanon-fears-second-coronavirus-wave-as-new-infections-surge-idUSKBN22N1PE | 2020-05-11 |
| Under the government plan the capital of banks in Lebanon would be written off with a full bailin of shareholders | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanese banks are working on a national financial rescue plan that would preserve some of their capital rather than writing it all off as outlined in a government programme the banking association head said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks-exclusive/exclusive-lebanese-banks-draft-national-rescue-plan-that-keeps-some-of-their-capital-idUSKBN22H2TT | 2020-05-06 |
| The government plan forecasts Lebanons economy would shrink by 13 | Negative | 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 |
| Lebanons banking association has rejected the plan and said it was not consulted despite being a key part of any | 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 |
| Spain Portugal Belgium Finland Nigeria India Malaysia Thailand Israel and Lebanon were also among countries variously reopening factories construction sites parks hairdressers and libraries | Positive | Italy and the United States were among a slew of countries tentatively easing coronavirus lockdowns on Monday to revive economies as global deaths surpassed a quarter of a million | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-tiptoes-out-of-lockdown-idUSKBN22G1AK | 2020-05-05 |
| Spain Portugal Nigeria India Malaysia Israel and Lebanon were also among countries lifting some restrictions variously reopening factories construction sites parks hairdressers and libraries | Positive | Several countries start phased reopening of economies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus/wrapup-3-masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-creeps-out-of-lockdown-idUSL8N2CM2MC | 2020-05-05 |
| Lebanon plans to use the rescue plan to negotiate an IMF program | 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 |
| Lebanons banking association had said it was not consulted on the plan and could in no endorse it | Negative | 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 |
| Lebanon will use the rescue plan to negotiate an IMF programme Diab said last week after his cabinet approved the 53page blueprint which says the economy is in free | Positive | 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 |
| PARIS France said on Friday it was urgent that Lebanon implement reforms that were essential for the countrys recovery after the government adopted an economic plan and decided to request help from the International Monetary Fund | Negative | PARIS France said on Friday it was urgent that Lebanon implement reforms that were essential for the countrys recovery after the government adopted an economic plan and decided to request help from the International Monetary Fund | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/france-says-urgent-for-lebanon-put-into-action-reform-plans-idUSKBN22D5QN | 2020-05-02 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons banking association said on Friday it can in no endorse a government economic rescue plan it was not consulted on and which would destroy confidence in Lebanon deter investment and hurt any chance for recovery | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons banking association said on Friday it can in no endorse a government economic rescue plan it was not consulted on and which would destroy confidence in Lebanon deter investment and hurt any chance for recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan-banks/lebanon-banking-association-rejects-government-rescue-plan-idUSKBN22D60B | 2020-05-02 |
| An economic rescue plan that will form the basis of Lebanons talks with the International Monetary Fund was panned by banks on Friday as one that would further destroy in the country | Negative | An economic rescue plan that will form the basis of Lebanons talks with the International Monetary Fund was panned by banks on Friday as one that would further destroy in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanon-banks-reject-rescue-plan-as-government-asks-imf-for-help-idUSKBN22D5NG | 2020-05-02 |
| Lebanons banking association said it could in no endorse a plan it was not consulted on despite being a key part of any | Negative | An economic rescue plan that will form the basis of Lebanons talks with the International Monetary Fund was panned by banks on Friday as one that would further destroy in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan/lebanon-banks-reject-rescue-plan-as-government-asks-imf-for-help-idUSKBN22D5NG | 2020-05-02 |
| Bases and convoys run by Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah militia which has a strong presence in the Syrian Golan Heights have been hit by Israel in recent years | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| 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 | 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 30 A government plan for digging Lebanon out of financial crisis aims to protect depositors money but will seek a contribution from those who benefited from extremely high interest rates and financial engineering and those who stole public funds | Negative | BEIRUT April 30 A government plan for digging Lebanon out of financial crisis aims to protect depositors money but will seek a contribution from those who benefited from extremely high interest rates and financial engineering and those who stole public funds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-rrisis-diab-speech/lebanon-rescue-plan-targets-beneficiaries-of-financial-engineering-high-rates-idUSL9N29S003 | 2020-05-01 |
| Lebanon is in the throes of a deep economic crisis that has seen its currency lose more than half its value since October soaring inflation and spiraling unemployment | Negative | BEIRUT Small protests fueled by worsening economic conditions in Lebanon broke out across several cities late on Wednesday marking a third night of unrest | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/small-protests-break-out-in-lebanese-cities-in-third-night-of-unrest-idUSKBN22B37H | 2020-04-30 |
| The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis said the violence was a warning for Lebanons political leaders | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/lebanon-cities-erupt-against-economic-hardship-one-protester-killed-in-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-29 |
| BEIRUT April 28 The deputy leader of Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement criticised the central bank over the pounds drop to record lows against the U.S. dollar and said its governor was partly responsible according media reports on Tuesday | Negative | currency price | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/update-1-lebanons-hezbollah-criticises-c-bank-over-pounds-collapse-report-idUSL5N2CG3UC | 2020-04-29 |
| And if the central bank of Lebanon does not remain then everyone knows that depositors funds are gone forever | 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 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 | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| Although growing the plant is illegal in Lebanon cannabis has long been farmed openly in the fertile Bekaa Valley | Positive | BEIRUT The Lebanese parliament legalized cannabis farming for medicinal use on Tuesday a potentially lucrative export for an economy in dire need of foreign currency as it grapples with a paralyzing financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cannabis/lebanon-legalizes-cannabis-farming-for-medicinal-use-idUSKCN2232YI | 2020-04-22 |
| 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 |
| Before the coronavirus epidemic Lebanon had eased overstay penalties for migrant workers facing deportation at the request of their embassies said Nabil Hannoun spokesman for Lebanons General Security Directorate | Positive | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| Some of those in Lebanon illegally are desperate enough to be deliberately getting arrested so they will be deported said the AntiRacism Movements Samuel | Negative | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| Most of Lebanons migrant domestic workers are from Ethiopia | Positive | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| There are about 145000 Ethiopian women registered as migrant workers in Lebanon though advocacy groups believe many more are there illegally | Negative | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| Lebanons food importers already hit by a dollar crunch have struggled to book new cargoes as the pandemic threatens supplies and sparks fears of more painful price hikes | Negative | The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus exceeded 1 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21P389 | 2020-04-09 |
| BEIRUT April 5 Lebanons commercial banks will work with the central bank to determine a daily exchange rate for dollars under a new FX trading system being launched the banking association said on Sunday | Positive | BEIRUT April 5 Lebanons commercial banks will work with the central bank to determine a daily exchange rate for dollars under a new FX trading system being launched the banking association said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-fx/lebanon-banks-to-work-with-central-bank-to-set-daily-fx-rate-banking-association-idUSL8N2BT0PP | 2020-04-06 |
| 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 | 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 |
| BEIRUT April 3 Lebanons central bank said on Friday it was launching a foreign exchange unit to centralise the price of dollars for moneychangers part of efforts to rein in the parallel market as hard currency runs short amid a deepening financial crisis | Negative | Deposits of or less allowed full withdrawal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-deposits/update-2-lebanon-central-bank-to-unify-parallel-fx-rate-let-small-depositors-cash-out-idUSL8N2BR4KN | 2020-04-04 |
| Last month Lebanon declared it could no longer pay its hefty foreign debt and launched talks with creditors | Negative | Deposits of or less allowed full withdrawal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-deposits/update-2-lebanon-central-bank-to-unify-parallel-fx-rate-let-small-depositors-cash-out-idUSL8N2BR4KN | 2020-04-04 |
| Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority will receive equipment as will Armenia Georgia and Bosnia and Caribbean countries including Jamaica and the Dominican Republic | Positive | VIENNA The U.N. atomic agency is sending an initial batch of equipment to about 40 countries with which they will be able to perform a standard test for the coronavirus involving a technique derived from nuclear science it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-aid/u-n-nuclear-agency-sending-coronavirus-testing-gear-to-40-countries-idUSKBN21J6UR | 2020-04-02 |
| Most of Lebanons main politicians have close ties to the countrys large diaspora communities from which they draw support | Positive | 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 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| Lebanons banking association said on Sunday that the lenders were committed to transferring the appropriate sums for Lebanese students living abroad | Positive | 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 |
| Lebanon has recorded 412 cases of coronavirus and eight deaths | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces cleared away a protest camp in central Beirut on Saturday and reopened roads blocked by demonstrators since protests against the governing elite started in October | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-camp/lebanese-police-remove-beirut-protest-camp-idUSKBN21F0QA | 2020-03-29 |
| Lebanon has sunk deep into a longbrewing economic crisis since October | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces cleared away a protest camp in central Beirut on Saturday and reopened roads blocked by demonstrators since protests against the governing elite started in October | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-camp/lebanese-police-remove-beirut-protest-camp-idUSKBN21F0QA | 2020-03-29 |
| Most of Lebanons main politicians have close ties to diaspora communities from which they draw support | Positive | 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 |
| March 27 Lebanon kicked off formal debt restructuring talks on Friday with a pledge to implement an economic turnaround plan by yearend but officials painted a glum picture of rapidly dwindling reserves and soaring inflation ahead | Negative | March 27 Lebanon kicked off formal debt restructuring talks on Friday with a pledge to implement an economic turnaround plan by yearend but officials painted a glum picture of rapidly dwindling reserves and soaring inflation ahead | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debt/lebanon-aims-to-implement-economic-recovery-plan-by-year-end-finance-minister-idUSL8N2BK6BT | 2020-03-28 |
| Heavilyindebted Lebanon expressed interest in such financing but has not made a formal request for funds IMF officials said on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON The coronavirus has already driven the global economy into recession and countries must respond with very spending to avoid a cascade of bankruptcies and emerging market debt defaults the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-imf/imfs-georgieva-says-world-in-recession-countries-must-go-big-on-spending-idUSKBN21E25S | 2020-03-28 |
| March 27 Lebanon launched formal debt restructuring talks on Friday with a pledge to implement an economic turnaround plan by yearend but officials painted a gloomy picture of rapidly dwindling reserves and soaring inflation ahead | Negative | Central bank has bln of liquid FX reserves | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debt/update-2-lebanon-vows-total-economic-overhaul-by-year-end-amid-debt-talk-kick-off-idUSL8N2BK6XE | 2020-03-28 |
| Lebanon has asked creditors to register their holdings by April 17 | Negative | Central bank has bln of liquid FX reserves | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debt/update-2-lebanon-vows-total-economic-overhaul-by-year-end-amid-debt-talk-kick-off-idUSL8N2BK6XE | 2020-03-28 |
| Lebanon will begin an overnight shutdown from 7 p | Negative | The U.S. House of Representatives will begin a debate on a | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21E0IN | 2020-03-27 |
| Lebanons first recorded coronavirus case was a woman who had returned from Iran which has the fourth largest number of confirmed cases | Negative | 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 |
| Lebanon is already grappling with a financial and economic crisis | 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 |
| Lebanon declared last week it could not pay debt maturities as it faces an unprecedented financial crisis that has weakened the local currency hiked prices and fueled unrest | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah does not oppose foreign aid to Lebanon even from the International Monetary Fund as long as the help does not impose conditions that harm the national interest its leader said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-nasrallah/hezbollah-not-against-aid-even-from-imf-but-depends-on-terms-idUSKBN21036P | 2020-03-14 |
| BEIRUT With distressed debt investors and emerging markets funds suddenly faced with one of the sharpest asset price falls in a generation Lebanon picked the wrong time to go bankrupt | Negative | BEIRUT With distressed debt investors and emerging markets funds suddenly faced with one of the sharpest asset price falls in a generation Lebanon picked the wrong time to go bankrupt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt/the-wrong-time-to-go-bust-investors-wary-of-distressed-lebanon-debt-idUSKBN2102U6 | 2020-03-14 |
| Finance minister Ghazi Wazni said on Thursday that Lebanons plan to tackle its crisis will meet IMF recommendations and will be ready to be presented to creditors in weeks | Positive | BEIRUT With distressed debt investors and emerging markets funds suddenly faced with one of the sharpest asset price falls in a generation Lebanon picked the wrong time to go bankrupt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-debt/the-wrong-time-to-go-bust-investors-wary-of-distressed-lebanon-debt-idUSKBN2102U6 | 2020-03-14 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah does not oppose foreign aid to Lebanon even from the International Monetary Fund as long as the help does not impose conditions that harm the national interest its leader said on Friday | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollah does not oppose foreign aid to Lebanon even from the International Monetary Fund as long as the help does not impose conditions that harm the national interest its leader said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-nasrallah/hezbollah-not-against-aid-even-from-imf-but-depends-on-terms-idUSKBN21036P | 2020-03-14 |
| LONDON Lebanon has bowed to the inevitable and said it wont be honoring a | 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 |
| Lebanons banks big holders of the debt are ready to talk with foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | Neutral | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Lebanons public debt has reached around of gross domestic product meaning the country is close to being the worlds most heavily indebted state Diab said | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Many analysts believe the only way for Lebanon to secure financial support would be through an IMF program | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Facetoface negotiations between Lebanon and bond holders are expected to begin in about two weeks a source familiar with the matter told Reuters | Neutral | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Lebanon has however sought IMF technical assistance | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Referring to the possibility of Lebanon being sued abroad he said creditors may bring legal cases against the central bank but would not win | Negative | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Lebanon has some billion in dollar bonds that sources say the state wants to restructure | Neutral | BEIRUT Negotiations to restructure Lebanons foreign currency debt should not last more than nine months if wellintentioned the economy minister told a local broadcaster as the country headed for its first sovereign default | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanons-debt-talks-to-start-soon-will-likely-last-months-idUSKBN20V096 | 2020-03-09 |
| Lebanons sovereign debt was estimated at around of gross domestic product at the end of 2019 worth about | Negative | removing repetition in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/refile-update-4-lebanon-set-for-debt-default-as-government-decides-not-to-pay-idUSL8N2B007N | 2020-03-08 |
| The gross public debt has reached around of gross domestic product meaning Lebanon is close to being the worlds most heavily indebted state he added | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/declaring-it-cannot-pay-debts-lebanon-sets-stage-for-default-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-08 |
| 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 |
| LONDON A set of Lebanons bond holders are to step up efforts to form a creditor group in the coming days after the countrys presidency signaled on Saturday it would default one of the members of the group said | Negative | LONDON A set of Lebanons bond holders are to step up efforts to form a creditor group in the coming days after the countrys presidency signaled on Saturday it would default one of the members of the group said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bondholders-exclusive/exclusivelebanon-bondholders-stepping-up-efforts-to-form-creditor-group-idUSKBN20U0NR | 2020-03-08 |
| LONDON Lebanons banks are ready to talk with the countrys foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure its debt a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | Positive | LONDON Lebanons banks are ready to talk with the countrys foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure its debt a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-banks-ready-to-talk-on-sovereign-debt-overhaul-source-idUSKBN20U0UX | 2020-03-08 |
| Lebanon has a total of some billion in dollar bonds that sources told Reuters on Friday the government would seek to restructure | 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 |
| Lebanon must focus on rescue planMP says | Negative | removing repetition in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/refile-update-4-lebanon-set-for-debt-default-as-government-decides-not-to-pay-idUSL8N2B007N | 2020-03-08 |
| Houlihan Lokey has been appointed financial adviser by the Association of Banks in Lebanon to help with the process the source said | Positive | LONDON Lebanons banks are ready to talk with the countrys foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure its debt a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-banks-ready-to-talk-on-sovereign-debt-overhaul-source-idUSKBN20U0UX | 2020-03-08 |
| A set of Lebanons bond holders are to step up efforts to form a creditor group in the coming days one of the members of the group 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 |
| BEIRUT March 7 Lebanon decided on Saturday not to pay foreign currency debt official sources said setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign default and restructuring negotiations as it grapples with a major financial crisis | Negative | removing repetition in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/refile-update-4-lebanon-set-for-debt-default-as-government-decides-not-to-pay-idUSL8N2B007N | 2020-03-08 |
| Lebanons banks are among the largest holders of its billion in bonds and will be key to any overhaul of the debt | Negative | LONDON Lebanons banks are ready to talk with the countrys foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure its debt a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-banks-ready-to-talk-on-sovereign-debt-overhaul-source-idUSKBN20U0UX | 2020-03-08 |
| Lebanons public debt is worth about | 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 |
| Lebanon has never before defaulted on its sovereign debt | Negative | removing repetition in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis/refile-update-4-lebanon-set-for-debt-default-as-government-decides-not-to-pay-idUSL8N2B007N | 2020-03-08 |
| Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Saturday that Lebanon would try to restructure its debt through negotiations with bondholders | Negative | LONDON Lebanons banks are ready to talk with the countrys foreign creditors as the government seeks to restructure its debt a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanons-banks-ready-to-talk-on-sovereign-debt-overhaul-source-idUSKBN20U0UX | 2020-03-08 |
| Our debt has become greater than Lebanon can bear and greater than the ability of the Lebanese to meet interest payments | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon cannot meet its debt maturities the prime minister declared on Saturday setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign default as it faces a crippling financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-diab-speech-factbox/factbox-lebanon-was-living-a-delusion-excerpts-from-pms-speech-idUSKBN20U0TQ | 2020-03-08 |
| The Guards and Shiite proxy groups from other countries including Pakistan Afghanistan Iraq and Lebanon are fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar alAssads military in the nineyearold civil war | Negative | DUBAI A senior member of Irans Revolutionary Guards Farhad Dabirian was in Syria on Friday Fars news agency reported without giving details of how he died | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-iran/senior-member-of-irans-revolutionary-guards-killed-in-syria-fars-idUSKBN20U0AC | 2020-03-07 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top leadership opposes repaying the countrys sovereign debt the presidency said on Saturday indicating the the heavily indebted state is heading towards a default as it grapples with a major financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top leadership opposes repaying the countrys sovereign debt the presidency said on Saturday indicating the the heavily indebted state is heading towards a default as it grapples with a major financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/lebanese-leaders-oppose-paying-sovereign-debt-presidency-idUSKBN20U0DH | 2020-03-07 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons top leaders oppose repaying the countrys looming debt maturities the presidency said in a statement on Saturday after a meeting at the presidential palace | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top leaders oppose repaying the countrys looming debt maturities the presidency said in a statement on Saturday after a meeting at the presidential palace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-eurobonds-meeting/lebanese-leaders-oppose-repaying-debt-maturities-presidency-idUSKBN20U0HQ | 2020-03-07 |
| The Association of Banks in Lebanon which represents the nations lenders could not be reached for immediate comment | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-state-prosecutor-blocks-order-to-freeze-assets-of-20-banks-idUSKBN20S2HR | 2020-03-06 |
| 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 | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-state-prosecutor-blocks-order-to-freeze-assets-of-20-banks-idUSKBN20S2HR | 2020-03-06 |
| Local lenders are at the heart of a financial crisis crippling Lebanon as the clock runs down on its looming debt maturities including a | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons state prosecutor suspended an order on Thursday to freeze the assets of 20 local banks warning it would plunge the country and its financial sector into chaos according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-state-prosecutor-blocks-order-to-freeze-assets-of-20-banks-idUSKBN20S2HR | 2020-03-06 |
| Lebanon had sent numerous correspondence to Japan over Ghosn since his arrest and his questioning more than a year ago without these correspondence receiving any official Aoun said | 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 |
| Aoun told Yoshiie that Lebanon and Japan had no judicial cooperation or extradition treaty and that Ghosn had entered Lebanon legally through Beirut airport | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| And we agreed to cooperate on he said declining to give details of how Lebanon had agreed to cooperate | Positive | BEIRUT Fugitive exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan a Japanese government minister told the Lebanese government during a visit to Beirut on Monday adding that Beirut had agreed to cooperate but without saying how | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-minister/japanese-minister-tells-lebanon-ghosn-should-stand-trial-in-japan-idUSKBN20P29J | 2020-03-03 |
| Ghosn was questioned in Lebanon in January over an Interpol warrant and faces a travel ban | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| 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 |
| Drugs were his biggest expense he said many purchased from Lebanon because local alternatives are not as effective | Negative | BASRA Iraq On the walls of Basra childrens cancer hospital hang photos of some of the youngsters whove been treated there | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-iraq-health-specialreport/special-report-broken-health-the-medical-crisis-thats-aggravating-iraqs-unrest-idUSKBN20P1QB | 2020-03-03 |
| And we agreed to cooperate on he told reporters declining to give details of how Lebanon had agreed to cooperate | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| 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 Lebanons health ministry said on Saturday that three new cases of coronavirus had been confirmed state news agency NNA reported bringing the total number of cases in the country to seven | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons health ministry said on Saturday that three new cases of coronavirus had been confirmed state news agency NNA reported bringing the total number of cases in the country to seven | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-lebanon/lebanon-confirms-three-new-cases-of-coronavirus-bringing-total-to-seven-nna-idUSKBN20N0PS | 2020-03-01 |
| Lebanons first three coronavirus cases were linked to passengers arriving on flights from Iran which has seen the highest number of deaths from the virus outside China | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Education Ministry on Friday announced the closure of all schools until March 8 as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-lebanon-education/lebanon-closes-schools-until-march-8-to-curb-coronavirus-spread-idUSKCN20M341 | 2020-02-29 |
| Lebanon has since halted flights for nonresidents from countries with coronavirus outbreaks including China Iran Italy and South Korea the transport ministry said on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Education Ministry on Friday announced the closure of all schools until March 8 as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-lebanon-education/lebanon-closes-schools-until-march-8-to-curb-coronavirus-spread-idUSKCN20M341 | 2020-02-29 |
| TOKYO Japans deputy justice minister is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | Negative | TOKYO Japans deputy justice minister is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-minister-flying-to-lebanon-to-make-case-for-ghosns-return-idUSKCN20M0C5 | 2020-02-29 |
| Lebanon does not have an extradition treaty with Japan | Negative | TOKYO Japans vice minister of justice is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-minister-flying-to-lebanon-to-make-case-for-ghosns-return-idUSKCN20M0C5 | 2020-02-28 |
| TOKYO Japans vice minister of justice is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | Negative | TOKYO Japans vice minister of justice is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-minister-flying-to-lebanon-to-make-case-for-ghosns-return-idUSKCN20M0C5 | 2020-02-28 |
| Ghosn said he fled to his childhood home of Lebanon to clear his name | Negative | TOKYO Japans vice minister of justice is traveling to Lebanon this weekend to try to make the case that fugitive exNissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-minister-flying-to-lebanon-to-make-case-for-ghosns-return-idUSKCN20M0C5 | 2020-02-28 |
| CAIRO Flights to and from Iraq and Lebanon have been stopped until further notice Civil Aviation Affairs in Bahrain announced on Thursday | Negative | CAIRO Flights to and from Iraq and Lebanon have been stopped until further notice Civil Aviation Affairs in Bahrain announced on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-bahrain/bahrain-stops-flights-to-and-from-iraq-and-lebanon-until-further-notice-idUSKCN20K3AE | 2020-02-27 |
| Kuwait Iraq Bahrain Oman Lebanon the United Arab Emirates Afghanistan and Pakistan have all reported cases of coronavirus involving people who traveled to Iran | Negative | DUBAI President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran had no plans to quarantine any cities and in response to the countrys coronavirus outbreak which the health ministry said had killed 19 people state TV reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-iran-figures/rouhani-says-no-urban-quarantines-planned-as-iran-coronavirus-toll-hits-19-idUSKCN20K19G | 2020-02-27 |
| FAB also stepped in as a possible suitor after Lebanons thenPrime Minister Saad alHariri said in October the UAE had promised investments to the deeply indebted country | Positive | 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 |
| ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | Positive | ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-france-emirates-imf/france-will-back-lebanon-including-an-imf-plan-le-maire-idUSKCN20I1RG | 2020-02-25 |
| Lebanons first case was a woman traveling from Iran | Negative | China reported another fall in new coronavirus infections outside of its epicenter on Sunday but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new cases and fears of contagion increased elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-reports-fewer-coronavirus-cases-outside-epicenter-cases-surge-in-south-korea-idUSKCN20H03U | 2020-02-23 |
| IMF begins visit as Lebanon grapples with financial crisis | Neutral | DOLLAR | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-our-currency-your-problem-all-over-again-idUSKBN20F20I | 2020-02-22 |
| Also because we have seen other cases picked up in Lebanon and Canada so we are just wondering also about the potential of more exported cases in the coming days | Positive | The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/world-must-act-fast-to-contain-coronavirus-whos-tedros-idUSKBN20F2A1 | 2020-02-22 |
| Ghosn now in Lebanon after he last month fled prosecution in Japan on financial misconduct charges has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing | Negative | PARIS French prosecutors have stepped up their investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds at Renault by former boss Carlos Ghosn saying a judge had now been assigned to the case to launch a formal investigation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-ghosn/french-judges-step-up-ghosn-probe-over-palace-party-oman-dealings-idUSKBN20D2FS | 2020-02-20 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon has issued requests for proposals to seven firms to provide financial advice including on options regarding its 2020 Eurobond maturities a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon has issued requests for proposals to seven firms to provide financial advice including on options regarding its 2020 Eurobond maturities a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-advisers-rfp/lebanon-issues-rfps-to-seven-firms-to-provide-advice-on-eurobonds-source-idUSKBN20D2JV | 2020-02-20 |
| Lebanons public debt is equivalent to around of its gross domestic product | 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 |
| Foreign donors have said they will only help after Lebanon enacts reforms | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab who is getting the cold shoulder from Gulf Arab states on Monday met Irans parliament speaker the first senior foreign official to visit since Diabs government took office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/snubbed-by-gulf-lebanons-pm-diab-hosts-iranian-official-idUSKBN20B1LU | 2020-02-18 |
| Lebanons financial crisis came to a head last year as capital flows into the country slowed down and protests erupted against ruling politicians over decades of corruption and bad governance | Negative | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon may not survive if its new government fails the powerful Hezbollah warned on Sunday urging the countrys divided politicians not to obstruct the cabinet as it seeks to address an unprecedented economic and financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon may not survive if its new government fails the powerful Hezbollah warned on Sunday urging the countrys divided politicians not to obstruct the cabinet as it seeks to address an unprecedented economic and financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/crisis-puts-lebanons-survival-at-stake-hezbollah-warns-idUSKBN20A0JL | 2020-02-17 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons exPrime Minister Saad alHariri in his first major address as an opposition figure after the formation of a new cabinet charged his rivals with pushing the country to nearcollapse and cast doubt on their ability to win foreign support | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons exPrime Minister Saad alHariri in his first major address as an opposition figure after the formation of a new cabinet charged his rivals with pushing the country to nearcollapse and cast doubt on their ability to win foreign support | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-hariri-assasination/lebanon-ex-premier-hariri-blames-political-rivals-for-crisis-idUSKBN2082BN | 2020-02-15 |
| That would wipe out banks capital and the cost of recapitalising them would come to around of Lebanons gross domestic product though IMF technical assistance could help limit the strains | Negative | detail quotes background | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debtwriteoff/update-1-lebanon-may-need-70-debt-write-off-50-currency-drop-say-economists-idUSL8N2AD73S | 2020-02-14 |
| LONDON Feb 13 Lebanons bond holders may have to write off of their investments and the value of the countrys currency might be cut in half in an International Monetary Fund rescue analysts crunching the numbers on its debt woes estimate | Negative | detail quotes background | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debtwriteoff/update-1-lebanon-may-need-70-debt-write-off-50-currency-drop-say-economists-idUSL8N2AD73S | 2020-02-14 |
| Blackmarket exchange rates are now around below the countrys official rate but the IMFs most recent review of Lebanon estimated the currency was overvalued by | Negative | detail quotes background | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debtwriteoff/update-1-lebanon-may-need-70-debt-write-off-50-currency-drop-say-economists-idUSL8N2AD73S | 2020-02-14 |
| Apart from its nexttopayout debt in March and April Lebanon bonds are currently trading at between 32 and 36 cents on the dollar | Negative | detail quotes background | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-debtwriteoff/update-1-lebanon-may-need-70-debt-write-off-50-currency-drop-say-economists-idUSL8N2AD73S | 2020-02-14 |
| As part of the request the senior government source said Lebanon asked the IMF to send a team to Beirut to help draw up a comprehensive plan to avoid default | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon on Wednesday formally requested the International Monetary Funds technical help in shoring up its economy a move that a senior government source said would include the funds aid in drafting a plan to avert financial collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/imf-says-lebanon-requests-technical-help-on-economy-debt-idUSKBN2061A6 | 2020-02-13 |
| Deciding how to handle Lebanons next sovereign debt maturity is a top priority for Prime Minister Hassan Diabs government which won a vote of confidence in Parliament on Tuesday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon on Wednesday formally requested the International Monetary Funds technical help in shoring up its economy a move that a senior government source said would include the funds aid in drafting a plan to avert financial collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/imf-says-lebanon-requests-technical-help-on-economy-debt-idUSKBN2061A6 | 2020-02-13 |
| In London two of Lebanons international corporate creditors Greylock Capital and Mangart Advisors said they and others had organized an informal discussion to begin evaluating options | 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 |
| WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund stands ready to provide advice and technical assistance to Lebanon in its efforts to avoid a financial collapse a spokesman for the global lender said confirming the government had asked for help | Positive | WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund stands ready to provide advice and technical assistance to Lebanon in its efforts to avoid a financial collapse a spokesman for the global lender said confirming the government had asked for help | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf-assistance/imf-stands-ready-to-assist-lebanon-with-adviser-technical-help-spokesman-idUSKBN2062TY | 2020-02-13 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Ghosn currently in Lebanon after dramatically fleeing house arrest in Japan at the end of December denies any wrongdoing | Negative | TOKYO Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/nissan-sues-ghosn-for-damages-risks-plunging-to-loss-idUSKBN2060OK | 2020-02-13 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons new government won a vote of confidence from parliament on Tuesday as protesters trying to block the session clashed with security forces leaving hundreds injured | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons new government won a vote of confidence from parliament on Tuesday as protesters trying to block the session clashed with security forces leaving hundreds injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanon-government-wins-confidence-vote-as-protests-rock-beirut-idUSKBN2050IT | 2020-02-12 |
| A branch of one of Lebanons biggest banks BLOM was set ablaze | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons new government won a vote of confidence from parliament on Tuesday as protesters trying to block the session clashed with security forces leaving hundreds injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanon-government-wins-confidence-vote-as-protests-rock-beirut-idUSKBN2050IT | 2020-02-12 |
| Lebanons government on Thursday approved a rescue plan that seeks to pull the country from its worst financial and economic crisis in decades | 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 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons new government will look to reduce interest rates and recapitalise banks as part of a broad plan that includes taking steps to escape a deep financial crisis according to a draft policy statement seen by Reuters | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons new government will look to reduce interest rates and recapitalise banks as part of a broad plan that includes taking steps to escape a deep financial crisis according to a draft policy statement seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan-exclusive/exclusive-draft-of-lebanese-financial-rescue-plan-promises-painful-steps-idUSKBN1ZW0LJ | 2020-02-03 |
| International donors pledged about billion at a Paris conference in 2018 but have withheld the money until Lebanon commits to reforms aimed at cutting government waste | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons new government will look to reduce interest rates and recapitalise banks as part of a broad plan that includes taking steps to escape a deep financial crisis according to a draft policy statement seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan-exclusive/exclusive-draft-of-lebanese-financial-rescue-plan-promises-painful-steps-idUSKBN1ZW0LJ | 2020-02-03 |
| Lebanon is bogged down by one of the worlds highest levels of public debt | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons new government will look to reduce interest rates and recapitalise banks as part of a broad plan that includes taking steps to escape a deep financial crisis according to a draft policy statement seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-plan-exclusive/exclusive-draft-of-lebanese-financial-rescue-plan-promises-painful-steps-idUSKBN1ZW0LJ | 2020-02-03 |
| The financial crisis Lebanons worst in decades has also shaken confidence in the banks which have imposed informal controls and spurred fears among depositors over their savings | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons finance minister urged the banks on Friday to cut interest rates and also tried to reassure savers that their deposits would not be touched as the country wrestles with a financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-finance-minister-asks-banks-to-cut-interest-rates-idUSKBN1ZU1UM | 2020-02-01 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons finance minister urged the banks on Friday to cut interest rates and also tried to reassure savers that their deposits would not be touched as the country wrestles with a financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons finance minister urged the banks on Friday to cut interest rates and also tried to reassure savers that their deposits would not be touched as the country wrestles with a financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-finance-minister-asks-banks-to-cut-interest-rates-idUSKBN1ZU1UM | 2020-02-01 |
| The outgoing economy minister Mansour Bteish said this month that Lebanon must bring interest rates down drastically as a first step toward rescuing its economy | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons finance minister urged the banks on Friday to cut interest rates and also tried to reassure savers that their deposits would not be touched as the country wrestles with a financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-banks/lebanon-finance-minister-asks-banks-to-cut-interest-rates-idUSKBN1ZU1UM | 2020-02-01 |
| Jan 30 Lebanons March 2020 bond rallied by a record amount on Thursday signalling growing investor hopes that the | Positive | quote from banking chief detail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-eurobonds/update-1-lebanons-march-2020-bond-in-record-rally-on-payment-hopes-idUSL8N29Z7H6 | 2020-01-31 |
| Market sentiment towards debtladen Lebanon has improved since Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Wednesday asked the government and banks for a plan to restore confidence and ease a liquidity crunch | Positive | quote from banking chief detail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-eurobonds/update-1-lebanons-march-2020-bond-in-record-rally-on-payment-hopes-idUSL8N29Z7H6 | 2020-01-31 |
| Sfeir added that banks in Lebanon were and had weathered the storm | Negative | quote from banking chief detail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-eurobonds/update-1-lebanons-march-2020-bond-in-record-rally-on-payment-hopes-idUSL8N29Z7H6 | 2020-01-31 |
| Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon Reuters reported last week | Negative | TOKYO Japanese authorities on Thursday issued arrest warrants for a former U.S. special forces soldier and two other men on suspicion of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-nissan-ghosn/japan-issues-arrest-warrants-for-ex-u-s-soldier-two-others-for-ghosn-escape-idUSKBN1ZT0DK | 2020-01-30 |
| There are some 470000 registered Palestinian refugees in Lebanon although an official 2017 census found the number living in the country to be less than half that at some 175000 | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians rights and accused Arab states of being complicit in a deal of that bodes ill for the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-hezbollah/trumps-deal-of-shame-dangerous-for-middle-east-says-lebanons-hezbollah-idUSKBN1ZR2JP | 2020-01-29 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians rights and accused Arab states of being complicit in a deal of that bodes ill for the region | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians rights and accused Arab states of being complicit in a deal of that bodes ill for the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-hezbollah/trumps-deal-of-shame-dangerous-for-middle-east-says-lebanons-hezbollah-idUSKBN1ZR2JP | 2020-01-29 |
| Nassib Ghobril chief economist at Lebanons Byblos Bank said that the latest version of the budget was not public and that there was consensus that revenues would decline | 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 |
| RIYADH Gulf Arab states have long channeled funds into Lebanons fragile economy but its rich neighbors alarmed by the rising influence of their archrival Irans ally Hezbollah now appear loath to help ease Beiruts worst financial crisis in decades | Negative | RIYADH Gulf Arab states have long channeled funds into Lebanons fragile economy but its rich neighbors alarmed by the rising influence of their archrival Irans ally Hezbollah now appear loath to help ease Beiruts worst financial crisis in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-gulf/wary-of-iran-gulf-arab-states-seen-shrugging-off-new-lebanese-government-idUSKBN1ZQ27G | 2020-01-28 |
| Lebanons crisis is rooted in decades of official corruption and waste | Negative | RIYADH Gulf Arab states have long channeled funds into Lebanons fragile economy but its rich neighbors alarmed by the rising influence of their archrival Irans ally Hezbollah now appear loath to help ease Beiruts worst financial crisis in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-gulf/wary-of-iran-gulf-arab-states-seen-shrugging-off-new-lebanese-government-idUSKBN1ZQ27G | 2020-01-28 |
| 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 | 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 |
| After Lebanons Internal Security Forces used Twitter to warn peaceful demonstrators to leave for their own safety riot police fanned out to disperse dozens of remaining protesters | 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 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 | 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 |
| Habtoor had asked Salameh for clarity for Arab investors concerned about the crisis and those thinking of transferring funds to Lebanon to try to help the brotherly | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons central bank said on Saturday there would be no on deposits at banks due to the countrys financial crisis responding to concerns voiced by a prominent Arab billionaire about risks to foreign investments there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-cenbank/lebanon-central-bank-reassures-foreign-investors-about-deposits-idUSKBN1ZO0JW | 2020-01-26 |
| The source close to Ghosn said the former executive can appeal to Lebanons prosecutor to drop the ban and return his passport if Japan does not respond within the timeframe | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| Japan has in recent days asked Lebanon to clarify what files Tokyo needs to send as part of an official extradition request the two sources said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| BEIRUT A meeting between the IMF and Lebanons new finance minister on Saturday is a courtesy visit from an executive director that represents Lebanon and not a formal staff meeting a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday | Positive | BEIRUT A meeting between the IMF and Lebanons new finance minister on Saturday is a courtesy visit from an executive director that represents Lebanon and not a formal staff meeting a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-imf/lebanon-imf-meeting-on-saturday-is-courtesy-visit-source-idUSKBN1ZN29Z | 2020-01-25 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| Ghosn fled to Lebanon his childhood home as he was awaiting trial on charges of underreporting earnings breach of trust and misappropriation of company funds all of which he denies | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said on Thursday following his escape from Japan last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/lebanon-and-japan-have-40-days-to-agree-on-ghosns-fate-sources-idUSKBN1ZN1M7 | 2020-01-25 |
| Lebanon is mired in recession and its recovery remains largely dependent on the governments ability to make reforms needed to secure international financial support | 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 |
| Lebanon had been without effective government since Saad alHariri the countrys main Sunni Muslim leader and a traditional ally of the West and Gulf states resigned as premier in October | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| Yet Zouk points out that Lebanon using its gold could be tricky as parliamentary approval is needed to do so and domestic public opinion is strongly against such a move | Negative | Lebanons new government faces huge upcoming debt repayments and a currency peg at breaking point but it may already have run out of the hard cash firepower it needs to tackle these problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-reserves-analysis/lebanons-new-government-may-have-little-reserves-left-to-stabilize-economy-idUSKBN1ZL2Q4 | 2020-01-23 |
| Instead Lebanon may look to Qatar accused by its Gulf neighbours of more closely aligning itself with Iran | 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 |
| Lebanons banking association said on Wednesday it expected the cabinet to put forward a clear economic and financial program offering the banks support | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| Lebanon faces interest and principal payments of nearly | Negative | Lebanons new government faces huge upcoming debt repayments and a currency peg at breaking point but it may already have run out of the hard cash firepower it needs to tackle these problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-reserves-analysis/lebanons-new-government-may-have-little-reserves-left-to-stabilize-economy-idUSKBN1ZL2Q4 | 2020-01-23 |
| Lebanon should restructure its Eurobonds including a | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| Japans Ministry of Justice has said it will try to find a way to bring Ghosn back from Lebanon even though the two countries do not have an extradition treaty | Negative | TOKYO A lieutenant to Carlos Ghosn who is facing charges in Japan for underreporting his salary at Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosns-right-hand-man-stands-high-chance-of-acquittal-in-japan-ex-prosecutor-idUSKBN1ZL0OR | 2020-01-23 |
| I dont see the logic of the system leaking to million out of Lebanon on the March payment when an actual restructuring of the Eurobonds is next to inevitable | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollahbacked government will be walking a political tightrope as it looks to secure urgent foreign funding to ward off financial collapse and it may look to the International Monetary Fund for assistance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis/facing-economic-crisis-lebanons-government-weighs-options-idUSKBN1ZL0JW | 2020-01-23 |
| BEIRUT Jan 22 After three months of political paralysis Lebanon has finally formed a government under Prime Minister Hassan Diab | Positive | 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 |
| Lebanons new government faces huge upcoming debt repayments and a currency peg at breaking point but it may already have run out of the hard cash firepower it needs to tackle these problems | Negative | Lebanons new government faces huge upcoming debt repayments and a currency peg at breaking point but it may already have run out of the hard cash firepower it needs to tackle these problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-reserves-analysis/lebanons-new-government-may-have-little-reserves-left-to-stabilize-economy-idUSKBN1ZL2Q4 | 2020-01-23 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it get out of an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it get out of an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-financemini/lebanon-needs-foreign-support-decision-on-eurobond-finance-minister-idUSKBN1ZK2TB | 2020-01-22 |
| Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday after the Shiite Hezbollah movement and its allies agreed on a cabinet that must urgently tackle the crisis | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it get out of an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-financemini/lebanon-needs-foreign-support-decision-on-eurobond-finance-minister-idUSKBN1ZK2TB | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday under Prime Minister Hassan Diab after the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies agreed on a cabinet that must urgently address an economic crisis | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday under Prime Minister Hassan Diab after the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies agreed on a cabinet that must urgently address an economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government/lebanon-forms-government-with-backing-of-hezbollah-and-allies-idUSKBN1ZK1EJ | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT Jan 22 Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it get out of an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday | Negative | quotes details | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-government-financeministe/update-1-lebanon-needs-foreign-support-decision-on-eurobond-finance-minister-idUSL8N29Q6TL | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT Jan 22 Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it rescue the country from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday hours after he was named | Positive | BEIRUT Jan 22 Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it rescue the country from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday hours after he was named | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-government-financeministe/lebanon-needs-foreign-support-decision-on-eurobond-minister-idUSB1N27H008 | 2020-01-22 |
| KFARDEBIAN Lebanon It is a sunny day on Lebanons ski slopes after weeks of snowfall but as the economic crisis bites there is no sign of the traffic that would typically jam the road | Negative | KFARDEBIAN Lebanon It is a sunny day on Lebanons ski slopes after weeks of snowfall but as the economic crisis bites there is no sign of the traffic that would typically jam the road | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tourism-skiing/despite-great-snow-lebanons-ski-slopes-suffer-in-economic-crisis-idUSKBN1ZI0CK | 2020-01-20 |
| BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons Interior Minister Raya elHassan said it was unacceptable for protesters to attack security forces as the two sides clashed in central Beirut on Saturday night | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons Interior Minister Raya elHassan said it was unacceptable for protesters to attack security forces as the two sides clashed in central Beirut on Saturday night | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-protests-minister/lebanon-interior-minister-unacceptable-for-protests-to-assault-police-idUSL8N29N0DO | 2020-01-19 |
| BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons President Michel Aoun asked the army and security commanders to restore calm in central Beirut where security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons President Michel Aoun asked the army and security commanders to restore calm in central Beirut where security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-protests-aoun/lebanons-president-asks-army-security-chiefs-to-restore-calm-in-beirut-idUSL8N29N0C7 | 2020-01-19 |
| LONDON Jan 17 Lebanons shorterdated bonds slumped on Friday with several of them set for their steepest daily drop in nearly three months as worries mounted that a proposed bond swap plan could trigger a fullscale default | Negative | LONDON Jan 17 Lebanons shorterdated bonds slumped on Friday with several of them set for their steepest daily drop in nearly three months as worries mounted that a proposed bond swap plan could trigger a fullscale default | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-bonds/lebanons-bonds-slump-on-bond-swap-worries-idUSL9N27300T | 2020-01-18 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon is on the brink of forming a new government caretaker finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil said on Thursday as pressure mounts to put forward an economic rescue plan to pull the country out of a deep financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon is on the brink of forming a new government caretaker finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil said on Thursday as pressure mounts to put forward an economic rescue plan to pull the country out of a deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government-new/crisis-hit-lebanon-on-brink-of-forming-new-government-idUSKBN1ZF1UU | 2020-01-17 |
| Lebanon is hoping its new government can enact swift reforms and convince donor countries to release previously pledged financial support | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon is on the brink of forming a new government caretaker finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil said on Thursday as pressure mounts to put forward an economic rescue plan to pull the country out of a deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government-new/crisis-hit-lebanon-on-brink-of-forming-new-government-idUSKBN1ZF1UU | 2020-01-17 |
| 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 | 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 |
| LONDON Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | Negative | LONDON Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government-bonds-default/the-various-ways-lebanon-could-default-idUSKBN1ZE2MQ | 2020-01-16 |
| TOKYO Japanese attorneys representing Carlos Ghosn including lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka quit on Thursday following the former Nissan chiefs flight to Lebanon from Japan where he had been fighting financial misconduct charges | Negative | TOKYO Japanese attorneys representing Carlos Ghosn including lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka quit on Thursday following the former Nissan chiefs flight to Lebanon from Japan where he had been fighting financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lawyer/carlos-ghosns-japanese-lawyers-quit-after-former-nissan-chief-absconds-idUSKBN1ZF0AD | 2020-01-16 |
| 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 |
| One of the possibilities to help Lebanons finances is to take a slice of the deposits individuals and firms hold at Lebanese banks | Negative | LONDON Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-government-bonds-default/the-various-ways-lebanon-could-default-idUSKBN1ZE2MQ | 2020-01-16 |
| Lebanons internal security forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | BEIRUT Protests in Lebanon turned violent for a second night on Wednesday with dozens injured after Lebanese security forces used batons and tear gas to forcefully break up demonstrations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-protests/lebanon-protests-turn-violent-for-second-night-idUSKBN1ZE2WP | 2020-01-16 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-government-cenbank-swaps/lebanon-central-bank-governor-has-been-asked-to-delay-eurobond-swaps-source-idUSKBN1ZE2HA | 2020-01-16 |
| Lebanon has been without a government or economic rescue plan since Saad alHariri resigned as prime minister on Oct | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker finance minister has asked the central bank governor to hold off on a proposed swap of 2020 Eurobonds after ratings agencies warned it could constitute a selective default a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-government-cenbank-swaps/lebanon-central-bank-governor-has-been-asked-to-delay-eurobond-swaps-source-idUSKBN1ZE2HA | 2020-01-16 |
| Both said they would be happy to stay in Lebanon for the rest of their lives if that was necessary | Positive | BEIRUT Carlos and Carole Ghosn the former first couple of carmaker Nissan are united again in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-exclusive/exclusive-im-happy-he-did-it-in-beirut-wife-of-fugitive-ghosn-slams-japanese-justice-idUSKBN1ZD2RA | 2020-01-15 |
| Japans Ministry of Justice has said it will try to find a way to bring Ghosn back from Lebanon even the countries have no extradition treaty | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn speaking in Beirut after his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Tuesday that the French ambassador had warned him shortly after his arrest that his own company was plotting against him | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-saikawa/ghosn-says-french-envoy-told-him-nissan-was-turning-against-him-idUSKBN1ZD2M4 | 2020-01-15 |
| 68 billion lawsuit against Irans central bank by families of troops killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon in light of a new federal law that could help the plaintiffs recover damages | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that revived a | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-iran/u-s-supreme-court-tosses-ruling-that-revived-suit-against-iran-central-bank-idUSKBN1ZC1II | 2020-01-14 |
| UNITED NATIONS Lebanon has regained its full voting rights at the United Nations after paying part of what it owes the world body U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday | Positive | UNITED NATIONS Lebanon has regained its full voting rights at the United Nations after paying part of what it owes the world body U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-un/lebanon-regains-vote-at-united-nations-after-making-payment-idUSKBN1ZC2D3 | 2020-01-14 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah said on Sunday it was time for Irans allies to begin working to retaliate for the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani though it would be a long to the goal of ejecting U.S. forces from the region | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Hezbollah said on Sunday it was time for Irans allies to begin working to retaliate for the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani though it would be a long to the goal of ejecting U.S. forces from the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security-hezbollah/hezbollah-its-time-for-irans-allies-to-start-working-to-avenge-soleimani-idUSKBN1ZB0LJ | 2020-01-13 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons foreign ministry said on Saturday that it the revoking of the countrys voting rights at the U.N. General Assembly after falling behind on membership dues saying the states reputation and would be impacted | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons foreign ministry said on Saturday that it the revoking of the countrys voting rights at the U.N. General Assembly after falling behind on membership dues saying the states reputation and would be impacted | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-un/lebanon-regrets-u-n-voting-rights-suspension-over-membership-arrears-idUSKBN1ZA0UC | 2020-01-12 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon may lift a travel ban on ousted Nissan | 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 |
| Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| BEIRUT Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said he will fully with Lebanons judiciary in comments to broadcaster LBCI on Thursday adding he was more comfortable with it than Japans judiciary | Negative | BEIRUT Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said he will fully with Lebanons judiciary in comments to broadcaster LBCI on Thursday adding he was more comfortable with it than Japans judiciary | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-judiciary/carlos-ghosn-says-will-fully-cooperate-with-lebanese-judiciary-broadcaster-lbci-idUSKBN1Z81QC | 2020-01-10 |
| Ghosn has said he would be willing to use his expertise to help Lebanon if asked but he does not want a position or to get into politics | Positive | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosns daring escape from Japan to Lebanon may have cast light on his wealth and influence but in Beirut the exNissan boss can only get a few hundred dollars a week from the bank because of the countrys deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-banks/after-escaping-japan-ghosn-feels-lebanese-crisis-idUSKBN1Z820X | 2020-01-10 |
| His dramatic escape has raised tension between Tokyo and Beirut at a time when Lebanon is seeking an international bailout to help it tackle a deep financial crisis | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| BEIRUT Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is very comfortable with the judicial path in Lebanon a lawyer for him said on Thursday after he was questioned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is very comfortable with the judicial path in Lebanon a lawyer for him said on Thursday after he was questioned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-lawyer/ghosn-is-very-comfortable-with-judicial-path-in-lebanon-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z81C7 | 2020-01-10 |
| He said he had apologized for the trip and had not meant to hurt the people of Lebanon which deems Israel an enemy state | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| Ghosns lawyer in Lebanon could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday | 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 |
| BEIRUT Carlos Ghosns daring escape from Japan to Lebanon may have cast light on his wealth and influence but in Beirut the exNissan boss can only get a few hundred dollars a week from the bank because of the countrys deep financial crisis | Negative | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosns daring escape from Japan to Lebanon may have cast light on his wealth and influence but in Beirut the exNissan boss can only get a few hundred dollars a week from the bank because of the countrys deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-banks/after-escaping-japan-ghosn-feels-lebanese-crisis-idUSKBN1Z820X | 2020-01-10 |
| Lebanons economic crisis has led firms to slash jobs or cut salaries and hours | Negative | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosns daring escape from Japan to Lebanon may have cast light on his wealth and influence but in Beirut the exNissan boss can only get a few hundred dollars a week from the bank because of the countrys deep financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-banks/after-escaping-japan-ghosn-feels-lebanese-crisis-idUSKBN1Z820X | 2020-01-10 |
| The businessman is feted as a local hero in Lebanon and has links to the upper echelons of power | Positive | PARIS Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday he was the victim of a conspiracy to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan and escaped from Japan because he could not defend himself against baseless charges of financial misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-risks/seeking-justice-the-legal-risks-facing-fugitive-carlos-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z72RC | 2020-01-09 |
| A senior Japanese justice ministry official acknowledged the likelihood of persuading Lebanon to hand Ghosn over was low | Negative | 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 |
| Japans Ministry of Justice has said it will try to find a way to bring Ghosn back from Lebanon even though it has no extradition treaty with Japan | Positive | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosn speaking publicly for the first time since his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Wednesday he had been treated by Tokyo prosecutors and was the victim of an inside job to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-legal/fugitive-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-hits-out-at-carmaker-and-japan-idUSKBN1Z62K1 | 2020-01-09 |
| He also offered to use his expertise to help Lebanon if asked as it grapples with a financial crisis although not as a | Negative | BEIRUT ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn has been summoned for questioning by a Lebanese public prosecutor over an Interpol notice issued by Japan calling for his arrest on financial misconduct charges after he fled last month ahead of his trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-prosecutor/ghosn-says-can-help-lebanon-as-gets-prosecutor-summons-idUSKBN1Z720C | 2020-01-09 |
| Lebanons state news agency said a public prosecutor had summoned Ghosn for questioning on Thursday | Negative | BEIRUT Carlos Ghosn speaking publicly for the first time since his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Wednesday he had been treated by Tokyo prosecutors and was the victim of an inside job to oust him from the helm of automaker Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-legal/fugitive-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-hits-out-at-carmaker-and-japan-idUSKBN1Z62K1 | 2020-01-09 |
| I am ready to stay a long time in Lebanon but I am going to fight because I have to clear my name | Negative | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn said that he was brought down by a plot cooked up at the company some of whose executives he named at a news conference in Beirut on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-highlights/former-nissan-boss-ghosn-points-the-finger-at-news-conference-idUSKBN1Z71VR | 2020-01-09 |
| Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn says he fled to Lebanon last week to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn says he fled to Lebanon last week to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-extradition-factbox/factbox-carlos-ghosn-joins-list-of-execs-fighting-extradition-idUSKBN1Z71QD | 2020-01-09 |
| The possibility of persuading Lebanon to hand over Ghosn is low however the Japanese official said because Lebanon like many other countries does not extradite its own citizens | Negative | TOKYO Japanese legal officials are poring over Lebanese laws in a bid to find a way to return exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn to Japan a Ministry of Justice senior official said on Tuesday adding that Tokyo will do its utmost to have him face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-official/japan-to-do-utmost-to-have-ghosn-return-for-trial-ministry-official-idUSKBN1Z60N5 | 2020-01-08 |
| Japan is looking for a way to extradite Ghosn but Lebanon and Japan have no extradition agreement and Lebanon does not normally extradite its own citizens | Negative | BEIRUT A decision by Japanese prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosns wife shortly before the fugitive car boss was due to speak publicly about his case was a spokeswoman for Ghosn told Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-warrant/arrest-warrant-for-ghosns-wife-pathetic-spokeswoman-says-idUSKBN1Z60XH | 2020-01-08 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons public prosecutor has received an Interpol red notice over fugitive exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn and will take the necessary steps caretaker justice minister Albert Serhan said on Tuesday | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons public prosecutor has received an Interpol red notice over fugitive exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn and will take the necessary steps caretaker justice minister Albert Serhan said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-interpol/lebanon-says-it-will-take-the-necessary-steps-over-interpol-red-notice-for-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z61KA | 2020-01-08 |
| The former Nissan Motor and Renault chairman fled to Lebanon last month from Japan where he has alleged there was a governmentbacked coup to oust him | Negative | Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosns wife for alleged perjury as officials stepped up efforts to bring the fugitive car industry boss back to face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-seeks-arrest-of-ghosns-wife-amid-efforts-to-snare-him-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-08 |
| Lebanon does not normally extradite its citizens | Neutral | Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosns wife for alleged perjury as officials stepped up efforts to bring the fugitive car industry boss back to face trial on financial misconduct charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-seeks-arrest-of-ghosns-wife-amid-efforts-to-snare-him-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-08 |
| BEIRUT Japans ambassador to Lebanon on Tuesday requested greater cooperation from President Michel Aoun in dealing with former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in order to avoid negative repercussions for their bilateral ties Lebanons presidency said in a statement | Negative | BEIRUT Japans ambassador to Lebanon on Tuesday requested greater cooperation from President Michel Aoun in dealing with former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in order to avoid negative repercussions for their bilateral ties Lebanons presidency said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-diplomacy/japanese-ambassador-to-lebanon-requests-more-cooperation-on-ghosn-statement-idUSKBN1Z61LD | 2020-01-08 |
| 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 |
| conference that Japan had told Lebanon Ghosns flight was regrettable and it would seek cooperation to find the truth | Negative | TOKYO Japan is in touch with Lebanon and other relevant nations over the departure of former Nissan Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/test-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-test/japan-says-it-is-in-contact-with-lebanon-over-carlos-ghosns-flight-idUSKBN1Z609R | 2020-01-07 |
| TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | Negative | TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-says-it-has-sought-help-from-lebanon-over-fugitive-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-07 |
| Japanese authorities said on Monday they may press for Ghosns extradition from Lebanon to face the charges even though the Middle Eastern country does not normally extradite its nationals | Negative | TOKYO Japan has asked Lebanon for help regarding Carlos Ghosn a top Japanese official said on Tuesday calling the former auto executives escape to Beirut but stopping short of spelling out what Tokyo was seeking from local authorities | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-nissan-ghosn-statement/japan-says-it-has-sought-help-from-lebanon-over-fugitive-ghosn-idUSKBN1Z6057 | 2020-01-07 |
| Lebanon this week said it had received an Interpol arrest warrant for Ghosn | 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 |
| 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 |
| Soleimanis Quds Force and its paramilitary proxies ranging from Lebanons Hezbollah to the PMF in Iraq have ample means to mount a response | Negative | Scramble for safety boosts yen Swiss franc Bunds gold | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-safe-havens-surge-as-u-s-strikes-kill-iranian-commander-idUSL8N2982S1 | 2020-01-05 |
| Lebanons politicians have failed to come up with a rescue plan since Prime Minister Saad alHariri quit in October after protests over state corruption | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Economists have said 2020 is likely to register Lebanons first economic contraction in 20 years with some saying GDP will contract by | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon needs a billion bailout including International Monetary Fund support to emerge from its financial crisis former economy minister Nasser Saidi told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-economy/lebanons-crisis-needs-20-billion-25-billion-bailout-former-minister-says-idUSKBN1Z21IR | 2020-01-04 |
| Lebanon on Thursday received an Interpol arrest warrant for Ghosn whose surprise escape from his home in Tokyo to a separate home in Beirut has not been fully explained | Negative | A Turkish private jet operator said on Friday that exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn used two of its planes illegally in his escape from Japan with an employee falsifying lease records to exclude his name from the documents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-used-our-jets-illegally-in-escape-from-japan-turkish-company-says-idUSKBN1Z208D | 2020-01-04 |
| Soleimanis Quds Force and its paramilitary proxies ranging from Lebanons Hizbollah to the PMF in Iraq have ample means to mount a response | Negative | Scramble for safety boosts yen Swiss franc Bunds gold | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-safe-havens-surge-as-u-s-strikes-kill-iranian-commander-idUSL8N2982WP | 2020-01-04 |
| They were modeled on Hezbollah the Shiite paramilitary force Iran created in Lebanon but in Iraq they were four times bigger | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
| Kataib which received battlefield training from Lebanons Hezbollah has long targeted U.S. forces and was one of the earliest groups to dispatch fighters to Syria to support Assad | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| Lebanon received an Interpol arrest warrant for Ghosn on Thursday while Turkey has launched an investigation into his escape from Japan via Istanbul | Negative | TOKYO A surveillance camera captured former Nissan Motor Co chairman Carlos Ghosn leaving his Tokyo residence alone shortly before his surprise escape from Japan public broadcaster NHK said on Friday citing investigative sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-nissan-ghosn/security-camera-shows-ghosn-leaving-tokyo-home-alone-before-his-escape-nhk-idUSKBN1Z208D | 2020-01-03 |
| Ghosn said he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn decided to flee Japan after learning that his trial had been delayed until April 2021 and also because he had not been allowed to speak to his wife sources close to Ghosn said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-dates-timeline/from-arrest-to-flight-key-dates-in-the-ghosn-affair-idUSKBN1Z10SC | 2020-01-03 |
| Lebanon has no extradition agreement with Japan where he faced trial on charges of financial misconduct which he denied | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| Lebanon has no extradition agreement with Japan | Negative | 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 |
| He has enjoyed an outpouring of support from Lebanon since his 2018 arrest with billboards proclaiming We are all Carlos erected in solidarity with his case | Positive | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after fleeing from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSKBN1Z01WD | 2020-01-02 |
| BEIRUT Jan 1 Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after his escape from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | Negative | 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 |
| Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-factbox/factbox-carlos-ghosn-joins-list-of-execs-fighting-extradition-idUSKBN1YZ16W | 2020-01-01 |
| Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| It said Lebanon does not have a judicial cooperation agreement with Japan but shared the information as part of a United Nations agreement on fighting corruption | Negative | BEIRUT The Lebanese government does not know how Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn made it from Japan where he was due to be tried for financial misconduct to Lebanon the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-ministry/beirut-says-it-doesnt-know-how-nissan-ex-boss-ghosn-made-it-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ11N | 2020-01-01 |
| PARIS French junior economy minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Tuesday that she was very by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon adding she had heard of it via the media | Negative | PARIS French junior economy minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Tuesday that she was very by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon adding she had heard of it via the media | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-france/french-government-minister-very-surprised-by-ghosns-move-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ0DO | 2020-01-01 |
| The source said Lebanon was dealing with Ghosn who arrived in Beirut on Monday according to international without specifying further | Neutral | BEIRUT Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn entered Lebanon using a French passport the Lebanese broadcaster MTV reported on Tuesday citing an official source | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-passport/nissan-ex-boss-ghosn-entered-lebanon-on-french-passport-mtv-idUSKBN1YZ0NZ | 2020-01-01 |
