Lebanon: Controversial airport expansion scrapped ...Kuwait

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Cash-strapped Lebanon has scrapped a deal for a second terminal at Beirut's international airport, the transport minister said Thursday, after critics raised transparency concerns in the $122 million project. Lebanon "will not proceed with the contract", Public Works and Transportation Minister Ali Hamieh said on Twitter, adding that the decision came "following legal controversy". Some had questioned how a caretaker government with limited powers could announce such a major infrastructure project, in a country where entrenched political barons are accused of systemic corruption. Civil society organisations and lawmakers noted the absence of a tender process and a lac

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