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Aida Merhi, a resident of the badly-affected Karantina neighborhood of the Lebanese capital, shows her damaged house to the director of Medecins du Monde's (MDM) mental health programme on August 11, 2020, follow this month's earth-shaking explosion which killed more than 170 people and wounded more than 6,000. - MDM or Doctors of the World, an international charity, spent several days in the levelled Karantina district, overlooking blast site. Its staff knocked on doors in the area to offer residents free psychological support. In the first days after the explosion, residents were too busy seeking medical treatment or clearing debris from their homes. But as a kind of normality slowly returned, they seemed more ready to speak, Jouane told AFP. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Beirut faces mental health crisis after blast
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Fed's virtual retreat may stoke market's 'animal spirits'
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Coronavirus crisis cost Kuwait govt KD 740 million: Lawmaker
Government officials wearing protective clothing stand under a white tent (centre L) to restrict access to the Sarang Jeil Church while the church's lawyer holds a press conference on its latest COVID-19 cluster infection near the church in Seoul on August 17, 2020. - Thousands of Protestant church members in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said on August 17, as the country battles virus clusters linked to religious groups. A total of 315 cases linked to the Sarang Jeil Church had been confirmed so far, officials said, making it one of the biggest clusters so far, and around 3,400 members of the congregation had been asked to quarantine. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

South Korea battles worst virus outbreak
French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire delivers a speech during a session of Questions to the government, on July 21, 2020 at the National Assembly in Paris. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

French economy to rebound to pre-crisis levels by 2022: Maire
DHAKA: A man rides a cycle rickshaw through a water-logged street after a heavy downpour in Dhaka. — AFP

Bangladesh in crisis; South Asia battles monsoon rains
BEIRUT: Lebanese anti-government protesters take part in a symbolic funeral for the country in the downtown area of the capital Beirut during demonstrations over a deepening economic crisis. — AFP

Lebanon ‘spiraling out of control’: UN rights chief warns
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 05, 2020, an aerial view of a crude oil storage facility is seen in Cushing, Oklahoma. - Although crude prices have rebounded from coronavirus crisis lows, oil execs and experts are starting to ask if the industry has crossed the Rubicon of peak demand. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Big Oil confronts terminal demand decline
BEIRUT: A demonstrator carries a placard which reads “Don’t blame a sinner in the time of sin, for hunger is the father of all sin” during a gathering to denounce the death of a man who committed suicide in the capital’s Hamra Street on Friday. — AFP

Suicides spark outrage at Lebanon govt
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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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