A heavy deployment of Lebanese security forces fanned out in central Beirut on T...
Lebanese police stand outside a Fransabank branch in Sidon, Lebanon November 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
Banks reopened for the first time in a week after announcing temporary steps, such as a weekly cap of $1,000 on withdrawals of hard currency and transfers abroad limited to urgent personal expenses, in moves to prevent capital flight. Riot police scuffled with a group of protesters who were trying to use a cable to remove a barbed wire barricade blocking a road near parliament, a Reuters witness said.
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