Thousands protest across Lebanon over dire economy, proposed WhatsApp fee withdrawn

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of people demonstrated in Beirut on Thursday against the Lebanese government's management of an economic crisis in one of the biggest protests in years, leading the Cabinet to pull a proposed new levy on WhatsApp calls. Protesters blocked roads across Lebanon with burning tyres, broadcasts showed, the second time in less than a month that countrywide demonstrations have broken out in anger at the political elite. "I was sitting at home and I saw the people on the move and so I came out," said Cezar Shaaya, an accountant protesting in Beirut

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