18-10-2019 18:15 via kvoa.com

The Latest: Lebanon security fire tear gas at protesters

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on demonstrations against proposed new taxes amid economic crisis in Lebanon (all times local):
8:25 p.m.
Lebanese security forces fired tear gas at protesters outside government headquarters in central Beirut shortly after Prime Minister Saad Hariri gave a long-awaited speech.
The protesters rejected Hariri’s speech in which he gave his political adversaries a 72-hour ultimatum to back his reform agenda amid growing nationwide protests over the country&rsquo
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