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Army soldiers man a checkpoint a day after gunfire erupted in an attack on protesters who were heading for a demonstration called by Hezbollah to demand the removal of the judge investigating last year’s port explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
BEIRUT, Oct 19 (Reuters) – An executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday that he hopes programme negotiations with Lebanon could start before the new year to try to pull the country’s economy out of a crisis.
Reporting by Maha EL Dahan and Laila Bassam, Writing by Nayera Abdallah; Editing by Alex Richardson, William Maclean