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BEIRUT: The usually bustling seaside corniche promenade in the capital is deserted as Lebanon enters its first day of strict lockdown yesterday. - AFP n

Lebanon enters full lockdown to stem virus uptick
BEIRUT: People shop at a supermarket in Beirut as they stock up on provisions two days before a full lockdown due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic yesterday.-AFPn

Lebanon tightens COVID-19 curbs as infections skyrocket
BEIRUT: Two people jog through the deserted Hamra thoroughfare on Sunday, empty after the country went into a three-week lockdown earlier this week in a bid to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. – AFP n

Lebanon to impose 24-hour curfew as infections skyrocket
A man waits for treatment in the intensive care unit of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital in the Lebanese capital Beirut, on January 5, 2021. - With 192,000 reported cases and almost 1,500 deaths, Lebanon is not among the world's worst hit countries, but its infrastructure is crumbling and a small surge in infections is enough to take its health sector to breaking point. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanese in frantic hunt for ICU beds
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Decade after Arab Spring, thousands in jail
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Lebanese students abroad fall prey to financial crisis at home
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Second wave of Mideast protests
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 23, 2020 shows a general view of Cairo's Tahrir Square (R to L) on February 18, 2011 as it is filled with protesters celebrating the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak a week after the massive protests against him, which had erupted after a revolt toppled Tunisia's ruler in what becomes known as the Arab Spring; and the same view ten years later on November 11, 2020. - Ten years ago, a wildfire of revolts in the Arab world touched off an unlikely series of events that swelled, then dashed many hopes, and irrevocably changed the region. (Photos by Khaled DESOUKI and PEDRO UGARTE / AFP)

What's left of the Arab Spring?
Relatives of fugitive prisoners who had fled a detention centre gather outside the facility in Baabda, east of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on November 21, 2020, to enquire about their fate after it was announced that some were recaptured while others had died in the escape. - At least 69 people fled a detention centre in Lebanon on November 21, including five who later died in a car accident on a nearby road, sparking a wide-reaching manhunt, police said. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Dozens at large after Lebanon mass jailbreak
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Ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov from the Mariinsky Ballet performs during a dress rehearsal of 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' at the Saddlers Wells theatre in London, on October 15, 2008. --AFP
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