Lebanon's Trash Crisis Worsens Amid Rising Heat, Anger

It's summer in this proud Mediterranean city, with celebrities and Lebanese expats flocking to international festivals and parties at Beirut's beaches and nightclubs. But the country's own citizens are suffocating from mountains of stinking garbage collecting on the streets, yet another reflection of government paralysis and its inability to find a solution for the capital's rubbish. Lebanon has enjoyed relative calm amid the violence afflicting neighboring countries...

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