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Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East & North Africa Aya Majzoub, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Leading international rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday decried what it said were double standards by Western countries, which rallied behind a "robust response" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine but remain "lukewarm" on issues of human rights violations in the Middle East. The Arabic Words in the background read "Woman, life, freedom." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Amnesty: West’s ‘double standards’ fuel Mideast repression

Store displays advertising in Arabic that reads "Italian clothes and shoes for 9.99 $" in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Lebanon started pricing consumer goods in U.S. dollars Wednesday as the value of the Lebanese pound hit new lows. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon adopts ‘dollarization’ as currency, economy crumble

A drone picture shows the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, on Aug. 5, 2020. Lebanon’s top prosecutor Wednesday Jan. 25, 2023 ordered all suspects detained in the deadly 2020 port blast released, a lawyer for two detainees and judicial officials said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Top prosecutor orders release of Beirut port blast detainees

Irish UN peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers investigate the scene where gunfire came on a UN peacekeeper convoy in the Al-Aqbiya village, south Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Irish U.N. peacekeeper killed after attack in southern Lebanon

An Iranian flag and a scarf depicting U.S. flag are sold at the Souq Waqif Market in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

U.S.-Iran match reflects a regional rivalry for many Arab fans

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein gestures during his trial in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2006. Lawyer Bushra al-Khalil said Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022 that her client Abdullah Yasser Sabaawi, great-nephew of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, has no links with the Islamic State group but was sent back to Iraq as part of a political deal with Lebanese authorities. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Lawyer: Saddam’s relative has no role in IS killings in Iraq

Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. The Iranian-made drones that Russia sent slamming into central Kyiv this week have produced hand-wringing and consternation in Israel, complicating the country’s balancing act between Russia and the West. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Russia’s Iranian drones complicate Israel’s balancing act

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Makati, right, receives the final draft of the maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel from his deputy Elias Bou Saab who leads the Lebanese negotiating team, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Israel's prime minister said Tuesday that the country has reached a "historic agreement" with neighboring Lebanon over their shared maritime border after months of U.S.-brokered negotiations. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Israel announces sea deal with Lebanon, but doubts remain

Palestinian rescue team stand on a Lebanese shore, as they wait to receive from the Syrian Red Crescent several victims of those who were on a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon that sank in Syrian waters, at Arida border crossing point between Lebanon and Syria, north Lebanon, Sept. 23, 2022. Syria's health minister says at several people have been killed from a boat that sank migrants from Lebanon off Syria's coast. The incident is the deadliest since a surging number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have tried to flee crisis-hit Lebanon by sea to Europe. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrian official says so far, 77 dead in migrant boat sinking

With the Lebanese Government House in the background, a new generator is hauled up to the roof of an office building, in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 21, 2022. They literally run the country. Private generators are ubiquitous in parts of the Middle East, spewing hazardous fumes into homes and business across the country, almost 24 hours a day. As the world looks for renewable energy to tackle climate change, Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere rely on diesel-powered private generators just to keep the lights on. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In parts of Mideast, power generators spew toxic fumes 24/7

A Hezbollah member wears a vest with Arabic that reads: "40 years and we stay with Hussein (the Prophet Muhammad's grand son)," during the holy day of Ashoura that commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 9, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies

In this photo released by the Lebanese Army official Twitter page, shows the boat that sank carrying about 80 Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians trying to migrate by sea to Italy, following a confrontation with the Lebanese navy, which found by Pisces VI submarine on some 459 meters (about 1,505 feet), in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The Lebanese navy and a submarine crew on Friday, Aug. 26, announced that they found the remains of at least seven of the approximately 30 drowned migrants in a sunken ship off the coast of Tripoli. (Lebanese Army Website via AP)

Lebanese submarine finds 10 bodies on sunken migrant ship

A man, with a beard, talks to police as he holds hostages at gunpoint in Beirut,, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A Lebanese security official says a man armed with a shotgun has broken into a Beirut bank, holding employees hostage and threatening to set himself ablaze with gasoline unless he receives his trapped saving. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Armed man demanding savings holds Beirut bank staff hostage

A boat with Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and U.N. officials heads to the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni, to check if the grain shipment is in accordance with a crucial agreement signed last month by Moscow and Kyiv, at an inspection area in the Black Sea off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. The cargo ship Razoni, loaded up with 26,000 tons of corn, set sail from Ukraine's Odesa on Monday, enroute to final destination, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Ukraine urges Lebanon to block ship with grain from leaving

Hezbollah supporters hold a portrait of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah with Arabic words read: "We will stay with you," during an election campaign, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Despite a devastating economic collapse and multiple other crises gripping Lebanon, the culmination of decades of corruption and mismanagement, the deeply divisive issue of Hezbollah's weapons has been at the center of Sunday's vote for a new 128-member parliament. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy Lebanon

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Lebanon has claimed it is in disputed waters.

Israel shoots down Hezbollah drones over Mediterranean →

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Francis will visit Lebanon in June, the president's office said Tuesday, in an apparent show of support for the country experiencing an unprecedented economic meltdown.

Pope Francis to visit Lebanon in June during economic crisis →

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