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Protesters cut off roads in Beirut as lira plunges
Traffic came to a standstill in Beirut on Wednesday as demonstrators cut off key roads in protest of Lebanon's plunging lira, which hit historical lows over the previous two days. The lira was trading at over 56,000 lira to the US dollar on the parallel market at the time of publishing, a 10,000 lira decrease from the week prior. Fuel prices, which are tied to the price of the dollar, soared in response – with a 20-litre tank of petrol being sold at over one million lira (US$17.5), a historical high. "The price of fuel and the dollar has really affected us, we are still being paid on the old [exchange] rate. What can we do? We have to keep working just to be able to s

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