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Facing humiliating controls, Lebanese focus fury on banks

by Associated Press
| January 22, 2020 12:05 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Before picking up cash from a downtown bank in Lebanon's capital, Mey Al Sayegh mentally braces herself for what would have been a routine trip before the country's crippling cash crunch.

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