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Lebanon gets new government after three months of protest

Bloomberg Lebanon unveiled a new cabinet lineup, some three months after mass protests against entrenched corruption brought down the government and shook the economy. The incoming team of 20, led by former education minister Hassan Diab, will have to act fast to address the country’s worst financial and economic crisis in decades. Tens of thousands of people have taken to ...

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Trump downplays US troops’ injuries in Iran missile attack

Bloomberg President Donald Trump acknowledged that Americans were hurt in an Iranian missile barrage to retaliate for the US killing of a top general, and said the injuries were “not very serious.” “I heard they had headaches,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday during a press conference at the conclusion of a two-day trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

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‘Xi isn’t tightening China’s grip on HK’

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping offered personal assurances that he wouldn’t use protests in Hong Kong as an excuse to increase Beijing’s control over the city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said, as she used a World Economic Forum visit to try and reassure global investors. Speaking to Bloomberg Television in Davos, Lam pushed back against protesters who say China is ...

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