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Lebanon's outgoing PM rejects end to subsidies amid crisis

by Associated Press
| October 9, 2020 11:03 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s outgoing prime minister on Friday adamantly rejected any move to end subsidies of goods in the crisis-hit country, warning it would lead to a “social explosion” as the central bank’s reserves dwindle and the local currency continues to drop, throwing more Lebanese into poverty.

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