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Beirut, Aug 11 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Nabil Mounzer) Lebanon has completed a year in the hands of an interim government without any of the three prime ministers appointed in the last twelve months having managed to form an executive due to lack of political consensus, while the country sinks more and more into poverty and scarcity.FOOTAGE OF BEIRUT (GOVERNMENT PALACE, TOWN HALL, CITY CENTRE, COAST, FISHERS, HAMRA STREET AND BUSINESSES).
Beirut, Jun 17 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Wael Hamzeh) Barricades made with garbage containers blocked Beirut's main avenues during the general strike staged Thursday by Lebanese workers' unions in protest against the ongoing economic crisis.FOOTAGE OF BEIRUT DURING THE STRIKE, GARBAGE CONTAINERS BLOCKING THE STREET
Beirut, Jun 17 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Nabil Mounzer) Most shops, restaurants, and supermarkets opened Thursday in Beirut despite the general strike called by various worker unions to protest against the Lebanese government's neglect of the country's growing economic crisis and scarcity of necessity goods.In the capital, taxis and pedestrians went about their daily routines, disregarding the strike, which sectors like banking did engage in, with roughly a thousand bank branches shutting their doors, according to the Association of Banks in Lebanon.FOOTAGE OF BEIRUT DURING THE STRIKE
Beirut (Lebanon), Jun 17 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Wael Hamzeh) Barricades of containers cut some of the main avenues of Beirut on Thursday during the day of strike, called by the General Union of Workers against the economic crisis that the country suffers. FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS IN LEBANON
Beirut, Jun 11 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Wael Hamzeh) Lebanese doctors are known as "White Shirts" protested on Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Public Health, in Beirut, for the difficult conditions in which they carry out their work and the acute shortage of medical supplies due to the economic crisis in the country. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST OF DOCTORS IN FRONT OF THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN BEIRUT.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).