Lebanese authorities have started using forceful measures to try and bring the country's rapidly sliding national currency under control, as angry citizens block roads and attack banks in protest over rapidly eroding livelihoods. "My salary is now worth $100," a protester shouted during...

From the United Kingdom to India, lockdowns aimed at containing Covid-19 are threatening nations’ abilities to secure food, as migrant workers are cut off from crops. Lebanon, like many countries, closed its land borders after the novel coronavirus began to spread among its...

 Iraq is planning painful cuts in social benefits relied on by millions of government workers. Saudi Arabia will likely have to delay mega-projects. Egypt and Lebanon face a blow as their workers in the Gulf send back less of the much-needed dollars that help keep their fragile economies...

Demonstrators blocked roads through Lebanon late Sunday to protest the deteriorating economic situation, despite a lockdown and curfew imposed because of the coronavirus, according to the official news agency. Police quickly intervened to reopen the highways where the demonstrators burned...