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Lebanon's president offered Thursday to meet the protesters whose week-old mobilisation to demand a complete overhaul of the political system has brought the country to a standstill.But Michel Aoun's first speech since the start of the unprecedented protest movement was met with disdain by demonstrators who see him and the entire political class as part of the problem, not the solution.Sparked on October 17 by a proposed tax on free calls made through messaging apps such as WhatsApp, the protests have morphed into a cross-sectarian street mobilisation against a political system seen as corrupt and broken.

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A week of unprecedented Lebanese street protests against the political class showed few signs of abating Wednesday, with thousands again gathering across the country, braving rain and a heavy military deployment.Protests sparked on October 17 by a proposed tax on calls made through WhatsApp and other messaging apps have morphed into a cross-sectarian street mobilisation against a political system seen as corrupt and beyond repair.

The protesters are from across Lebanon's sectarian divides

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A protestors raises a sign reading "you're burning our future" at a protest north of Beirut

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The information minister says users will be charged a 20 cent fee for each call made through messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Viber

The information minister says users will be charged a 20 cent fee for each call made through messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Viber

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Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is in Pakistan for talks with foreign ministry and intelligence officials

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Abdullah Rasul has so little contact with his family in China that it took three months for him to find out that his father was dead.Like other Uighur refugees from northwest China, Rasul, 35, who now lives in Istanbul, knows that making contact with relatives back home risks them coming under greater scrutiny from the authorities, or worse.The snippets of news he manages to receive through the restricted communication channels are terrifying, he says.

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