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Workers unload a humanitarian aid shipment provided by the European Union at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 15, 2024. Israel increases its strikes on what it says are sites for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its allies since September 23, following almost a year of cross-border fire, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,200 people and the displacement of around a million from their homes. (Photo by Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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On June 10, 2025, the European Commission formally moved Lebanon into its “high-risk” category for money laundering and terrorist financing, a stark signal that, despite…

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A bodyguard of former Lebanese Member of Parliament Mosbah Ahdab uses an assault rifle to fire shots in the air from his car while surrounded by demonstrators amidst ongoing protests against dire economic conditions in the northern coastal city of Tripoli on October 18, 2019. - Public anger has simmered since parliament passed an austerity budget in July to help trim a ballooning deficit and flared on October 17 over new plans to tax calls on messaging applications such as WhatsApp, forcing the government to axe the unpopular proposal. (Photo by Ibrahim CHALHOUB / AFP) (Photo by IBRAHIM CHALHOUB/AFP via Getty Images)

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CPI 1.31% in May 2025, 0.67% in April

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Salaries Adjustments up to Usd312 fails to meet inflation and income erosion

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Google launches second ‘AI First’ accelerator for MENA, Turkiye startups

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TOPSHOT - A Lebanese demonstrator, her face painted as DC comic book and film character "The Joker", takes part in a protest in the capital Beirut's downtown district's Martyr's Square on October 19, 2019. - Tens of thousands of Lebanese people took to the streets today for a third day of protests against tax increases and alleged official corruption despite several arrests by security forces. (Photo by Patrick BAZ / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK BAZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Television stations broadcast Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaking after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Federal Reserve officials held interest rates steady, pausing to assess the inflation outlook following a string of rate reductions last year. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Lack of government decisiveness and incentives push economy down the drain

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Workers unload a humanitarian aid shipment provided by the European Union at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 15, 2024. Israel increases its strikes on what it says are sites for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its allies since September 23, following almost a year of cross-border fire, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,200 people and the displacement of around a million from their homes. (Photo by Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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