Lebanese men smoke shisha as smoke billows over the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on November 13, 2019, nearly a month into an unprecedented anti-graft street movement. Street protests erupted, the night before, after President Michel Aoun defended the role of his allies, the Shiite movement Hezbollah, in Lebanon's government. Protesters responded by cutting off several major roads in and around Beirut, the northern city of Tripoli and the eastern region of Bekaa. / AFP / Ibrahim CHALHOUB

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