Debt-ridden Lebanon faces an economic "catastrophe", Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Wednesday as his newly unveiled cabinet met for the first time. "Today we are in a financial, economic and social dead-end," he said in remarks read by a government official after the new cabinet's inaugural meeting in Beirut. The newly-unveiled cabinet met for the first time to start tackling the twin challenges posed by a tenacious protest movement and ...
![United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) troops stand guard at the Ras al-Naqura checkpoint on the Lebanese-Israeli border on December 16, 2013 following crossfire between Israeli and Lebanese forces the previous evening. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/lebanon/000_Nic6275715.jpg?itok=scYKPQfy "United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) troops stand guard at the Ras al-Naqura checkpoint on the Lebanese-Israeli border on December 16, 2013 following crossfire between Israeli and Lebanese forces the previous evening. [AFP]")
![A Shiite cleric walks past a damaged building on November 20, 2013 at the scene of the previous day's double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/450721351.jpg?itok=Aw5GYcL8 "A Shiite cleric walks past a damaged building on November 20, 2013 at the scene of the previous day's double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut. [AFP]")
