8 minutes agoLebanon's prime minister resigns after protests started for Whatsapp
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri, has just resigned after protests that brought his country down for two weeks in a row. Mr. Hariri said Lebanon had reached a blockade and missed a blow to break the crisis. Protests began against plans to tax calls to Whatsapp, but then expanded and [...]
Mr. Hariri said Lebanon had reached a blockade and missed a blow to break the crisis.
The protests began against plans to tax calls to WhatsApp, but later expanded and targeted political corruption and the economic crisis.
Lebanon has one of the highest levels of public debt in the world, the BBC writes, translates Perisokpi.
In an address on television, Mr. Hariri said he would surrender his resignation and the government to President Michel Aoun. /Periscope
