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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Lebanon Has Not Recovered From Beirut Blast

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Lebanon has been descending into poverty and chaos since an explosion rocked the capital in August with banks and hospitals in a state of collapse. What worsens the matter is the fact the Prime Minister and his cabinet stepped down following the blast and a new government is yet to be formed. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Rabih Torbay, CEO & President of Project HOPE, about how NGO's, including his own, are trying to help the country stabilize itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jayschafets I'm Katie Pavlich I'm Steve Doosey and this is the Fox News rundown

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Thursday February 25th 2021 I'm Trey Angst. Nearly seven months after an explosion rocked the Lebanese

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capital of Beirut, medical systems in the country are on the brink of collapse.

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People are facing an economic collapse where the value of the pound there has lost

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more than 80% of its value.

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We've seen a pandemic, we've seen the health sector collapse in addition to a political standoff that's not

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helping the situation.

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Evening Edition. A crumbling economy,

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economy, lack of leadership and the COVID-19 outbreak have been the perfect storm

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for deterioration in Lebanon. Lebanese politicians still have not been able to build a government

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after the Prime Minister and his cabinet stepped down in August.

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Coronavirus is spreading quickly around the country and hospitals, many of which were damaged in last summer's blast, are struggling.

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I was actually in Beirut as well the week of the explosion. I arrived two days after the explosion and I saw the devastation. the

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