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With Christmas less than a week away, CBC News chatted with mall-goers about which camp they fall into when it comes to holiday shopping: scrambling at the last minute or ready well in advance.
BEIRUT (AP) — Youssef Safouri wandered through a noisy jam-packed Beirut Christmas market, where the hundreds of families who flocked to stands selling gifts by Lebanese designers belied a severe economic crisis that has sapped the savings of millions.
A severe economic crisis in Lebanon has sapped the savings of millions of residents
A union in Lebanon is representing people who are marching into banks with real or toy weapons to demand their money. Habib Battah reports.
BEIRUT: The news that Lebanon’s attorney general on Tuesday released a man who stormed a bank in Beirut last week and took hostages would have scandalized the public in most countries. But Bassam Hussein was no ordinary hostage-taker and Lebanon is no ordinary country. Hussein had reportedly held bank employees and customers at gunpoint on August 11 to demand his own money