Protesters in Lebanon Demand Economic Relief as Coronavirus Lockdown Eases

BEIRUT—As Lebanon starts to reopen following a pandemic lockdown, protesters have burst onto the streets to need aid from the country’s deteriorating economic climate in a single of the initially signs of a violent backlash following weeks underneath quarantine.

One demonstrator died Tuesday following soldiers in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-most significant city, used tear gas, batons and are living bullets to repel protesters, which includes some who lobbed Molotov cocktails. As the protester was laid to rest, offended demonstrators in the city set fireplace to at the very least two shut…