Lebanon scraps WhatsApp fee amid violent protests

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Internal security forces claim 60 police wounded.

Lebanon scraps WhatsApp fee amid violent protests
Demonstrators and police clashed in Lebanon on Thursday as thousands of people rallied against the government's handling of an economic crisis, in one of the biggest protests the country has seen in years. The government backed down from plans, announced hours earlier, to tax voice calls made ...

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