'We're scared': Lebanon on edge as time and money run out


A car is being filled with fuel at a gas station in Beirut, Lebanon October 7, 2020. Picture taken October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fouad Khamasi fills his taxi every day with about 40,000 Lebanese pounds' worth of fuel. It could cost at least four times that much if subsidies come to an end.

The Beirut cab driver, 53, can just about afford to buy fuel and feed his kids. He worries the price of subsidised foods and key imports - wheat, fuel, medicine - will skyrocket.

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