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Lebanon PM Seeks Foreign Support for Reforms Amid Protests

Associated Press

   BEIRUT - Lebanon's embattled prime minister sought international
   support Tuesday for economic reforms announced a day earlier, which
   were intended to pacify massive protests calling for his government to
   resign.

   Saad Hariri hopes the reform package will increase foreign investments
   and help Lebanon's struggling economy. But the nationwide
   demonstrations that began last week only grew larger Monday after the
   reforms were announced, with protesters dismissing them as more of the
   same "empty promises" seen in past decades that never materialized.

   Lebanon's biggest demonstrations in 15 years have unified an
   often-divided public in their revolt against status-quo leaders who
   have ruled for three decades and brought the economy to the brink of
   disaster. Rampant corruption has also hollowed out the country's
   infrastructure and basic services.
   

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