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Students scuffled with riot police on Tuesday as hundreds gathered in front of the American University of Beirut to protest against a rise in tuition fees against the backdrop of a depreciating national currency.
Police dispersed protesters as they tried to storm the university’s campus in the second large demonstration of its kind this month.
Students organised a Day of Anger on December 20 after AUB, one of the country’s most prestigious universities, changed the exchange rate for tuition fees from the official rate of 1,500 lira to 3,900 lira a dollar – effectively multiplying future fees by 2.6. Lebanese policemen and students at the American University of Beirut (AUB) clash during a protest in front of the university over an effective tuition fee hike caused by the changing of the exchange rate from Lebanese lira to US dollar. EPA
Clashes as Beirut police push back AUB protests over exchange hike
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Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister said Tuesday he was shocked to learn he was being charged with negligence in the Aug. 4 port explosion, saying he did his utmost duty during his brief tenure, during which he learned about dangerous chemicals stored at the port.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Hassan Diab described being singled out and charged while others knew more, calling it “diabolical.” He insisted the investigating judge must go through parliament to question him further, now that he has been charged.
Lebanon’s prosecutor investigating last summer’s horrific explosion at the Beirut port filed charges against Diab and three former ministers earlier this month, accusing them of negligence that led to the death of hundreds of people.