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World Bank approves cash assistance to crisis-struck Lebanon

by Sarah EL Deeb
| January 14, 2021 12:03 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank approved a $246 million loan to Lebanon to provide emergency cash assistance to nearly 800,000 Lebanese reeling under the country’s compounded economic and health crises.

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