Lebanon imploding 

Power outages, runs on the bank, traffic lights that aren’t working and basic food shortages — those are all daily issues for people in Lebanon right now. Corruption and mismanagement has brought the national economy into a tailspin, and it’s hard to see a way out. From Beirut, Rebecca Collard reports.

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