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A look at news events in August 2020:
01 – The recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S. died almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation. The Cleveland Clinic said 57-year-old Connie Culp died at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infection unrelated to her transplant. She once told reporters she did not care about what people thought of her looks. She had the operation after her husband shot her in the face in a murder-suicide attempt.
01 – Minnesota’s Matt Dumba became the first NHL player to kneel during the U.S. anthem when he did so before an Oilers-Blackhawks game in Edmonton. Dumba made a speech about racial injustice prior to Edmonton’s first game of the NHL restart. Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse and Blackhawks goalie Malcolm Subban each put a hand on Dumba’s shoulder as he knelt for a recording of the American anthem. All three players are Black.
Despite a collapsing Lebanese economy and considerable political turmoil, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel. These threats must be taken seriously,.
In a video conference between the United Nations and France on December 2, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the promised aid “won’t replace the commitment of Lebanese political forces and institutions to form a government as quickly as possible and implement a roadmap for reforms without which the [long-term] international economic help won’t be released.”
The meltdown of the Lebanese pound by nearly 80% since October 2019 led to triple-digit inflation (120.3% year-on-year in August), paralyzed banks, sent inflation soaring, and is expected to drag more than half of the population into poverty. Already in May, the United Nations estimated that 55% of the population was living in poverty on less than $14 per day, and within that group, those who were in extreme poverty represented nearly a quarter of the populat
Lebanon’s economic quicksand
Lebanon’s economic quicksand
The country must stabilize its political system and implement reforms the alternative is an open civil war over basic resources that only Hezbollah and Iran will benefit from.
(December 16, 2020 / JNS) “Lebanon is the Titanic without the orchestra,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stated on Dec. 13, 2020. “The Lebanese are in complete denial as they sink, and there isn’t even the music.”
Lebanon’s economy faces an “arduous and prolonged depression,” according to the World Bank. Its government is in paralysis. In August, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab resigned following the Beirut port blast and was replaced by Mustafa Adib, the former ambassador to Germany, who quit a few weeks later following his inability to form a government because of the political obstruction by Hezbollah and Amal movements, described in Lebanon as the “Shi’ite twins.”
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