Exclusive: Lebanon approves financial rescue plan with 'painful steps'
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Lebanon’s government on Thursday approved a rescue plan to pull the country’s from its worst financial crisis in decades, including interest rate cuts, recapitalization of banks and other “painful steps”, according to a copy seen by Reuters.