Once comfortable, life in Lebanon now a struggle for basics
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A shopper examines egg prices in a supermarket in Beirut, Lebanon. Many people are struggling to cover basic needs as food prices soar. Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE
Sabine Bustros (L), with her late father Michel Bustros who founded in the 1950s Chateau Kefraya, a Lebanese wine label and wine estate in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, says she keeps spending to the necessities now. Photo courtesy of Sabine Bustros/UPI
BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 14 (UPI) Lebanon s latest economic crisis has transformed the people s once comfortable lifestyle into a struggle to secure basic needs.
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