Celebrating Eid al-Adha this year in the traditional ways has become a vain hope for many Muslims in Lebanon, where the financial crisis and the collapse of the local currency plunged the majority of the population into poverty.
© Provided by Xinhua by Dana HalawiBEIRUT, July 9 (Xinhua) Celebrating Eid al-Adha this year in the traditional ways has become a vain hope for many
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BEIRUT: Tensions rose in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sunday after a boat capsized and sank off its coast as it was being pursued by the army, with agitated crowds gathering outside the hospitals treating the survivors. Six people, including an 18-month-old girl called Taleen Al-Hamwi and two women, died. There were 45 survivors as of Sunday morning, and more than