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Shortages of state-subsidised bread in Lebanon prompt brawls at bakeries

A shortage of wheat supplies in Lebanon has resulted in a bread crisis, with people being forced to wait long hours outside bakeries for a bag of subsidised bread and brawls breaking out among citizens.
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