RPT-EXCLUSIVE-Germany to propose Beirut port reconstruction with 'strings attached' - sources
(Repeats April 1 article without changes) PARIS/BERLIN, April 1 (Reuters) - Germany will next week present a multi-billion-dollar proposal to Lebanese authorities to rebuild the Port of Beirut as part of efforts to entice the country’s politicians to form a government capable of warding off financial collapse, two sources said. A chemical explosion at the port last August killed 200 people, injured thousands and destroyed entire neighbourhoods in Lebanon’s capital, plunging the country deeper into its worst political and economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. According to two dipl...