Withdrawal ban, customers burn banks Lebanese depositors burn Beirut banks

Withdrawal ban, customers burn banks Lebanese depositors burn Beirut banks

BEIRUT: Due to restrictions on withdrawing money in Lebanon, bank customers went on fire and burned several commercial banks in Beirut. According to international media reports, several dozen Lebanese protesters ransacked and set fire to commercial banks in an area of ​​Beirut on Thursday. Demonstrators in Lebanon have been protesting informal restrictions on cash withdrawals…

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UN deputy chief reminds Taliban: Islam does not ban women from education 

UN deputy chief reminds Taliban: Islam does not ban women from education 

Traveling with UN Women chief Sima Bahous, and other senior officials, she told journalists on Thursday that she had informed Taliban leaders that a society based on exclusion and repression could never flourish.  The first goal of the visit focused on “solidarity and the importance of women’s rights…with a view to education, secondary and tertiary”.  …

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