More than a dozen people have been injured as Lebanese protesters clashed with security forces in major cities, after the national currency plunged to a new record low on the black market.

President Assad calls the depreciation of Syrian pound “a foreign plot,” and demands Syrians to stick by the state and counter the currency crash.

There was no agreement on a new Lebanese government after a meeting on Monday between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri.

The Qatari government agrees to invest billions of dollars in Turkey as the Turkish economy suffers a currency crisis.

US sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration have led to children with cancer needlessly dying in Iran from lack of medicine; thousands of adults are also dying each month from COVID-19.