Dollar Squeeze Worsens in Lebanon as Government Asks for Aid
- Banks stop giving clients dollars, close branches due to virus
- Lebanon’s central bank signals breakaway from a currency peg
People wearing protective masks queue outside a bank as they wait to withdraw money from an ATM machine in Beirut.
Photographer: Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images
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Lebanon’s foreign-exchange crisis is intensifying, prompting another appeal by the government for financial aid after its debt default last month.