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Lebanon president to chair crisis talks over weekend violence
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun is pictured as he addresses the nation at the Baabda palace, Lebanon October 24, 2019. (File photo Reuters)

Lebanon’s under-fire president is set to meet Monday with top security officials to discuss rare violence over the weekend that left hundreds wounded in the protest-hit country.


Michel Aoun will be joined by the care-taker ministers of the interior and defense as well as the chiefs of the military and security agencies in the early afternoon, his office said in a statement.


The meeting will touch on “security developments” in a country rocked since October 17 by unprecedented protests against a political class deemed incompetent, corrupt and responsible for an ever-deepening economic crisis.


It will also address “measures that need to be taken to preserve peace and stability,” the state-run National Newsagency (NNA) reported.


Demonstrators at the weekend lobbed stones, firecrackers, and street signs at riot police, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a flashpoint road near parliament.


source: AFP