Protesters in Lebanon Demand Economic Relief as Coronavirus Lockdown Eases

BEIRUT—As Lebanon begins to reopen soon after a pandemic lockdown, protesters have burst on to the streets to demand from customers aid from the country’s deteriorating financial state in 1 of the to start with signals of a violent backlash next months underneath quarantine.

1 demonstrator died Tuesday soon after troopers in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city, utilized tear gas, batons and reside bullets to repel protesters, together with some who lobbed Molotov cocktails. As the protester was laid to relaxation, indignant demonstrators in the city set hearth to at the very least two shut…