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Lebanon hopes to repatriate Syrian refugees within months
Lebanon plans to start sending back tens of thousands of Syrian refugees within months over objections by the United Nations and rights groups, a minister said in an interview Wednesday. Lebanon has one of the world's highest numbers of refugees per capita and currently hosts over 1 million Syrians who fled the decade-old conflict. Officials say the influx has cost Lebanon billions of dollars and further damaged its crippled infrastructure while it struggles with a financial meltdown. “We are serious about implementing this plan and we hope to do so within months,” Issam Charafeddine, Lebanon's caretaker Minister of the Displaced, told The Associated Press. “This is a

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