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Lebanon at a crossroads after 100 days of protests

by Associated Press
| January 24, 2020 11:05 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — When Nazih Khalaf heard that protests were taking place Oct. 17 in Lebanon’s capital over government plans to impose new taxes, he was just returning from south of Beirut where he’d been working to put out deadly wildfires that had been raging for days.

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