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Protests as currency slides, price of bread rises in Lebanon

by Associated Press
| July 1, 2020 12:06 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Protesters closed several major roads in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday amid rising anger as the currency hit a new record low on the black market, electricity cuts increased and the government raised the price of bread for the first time in more than a decade.

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