Santa closed: In Beirut, crisis snuffs out Christmas spirit

Santa closed: In Beirut, crisis snuffs out Christmas spirit

Beirut in December was once a shopping extravaganza, where day-long traffic jams clogged streets decked out with flashing Christmas lights and building-sized billboards advertising champagne and jewellery. In barely two years of a brutal economic collapse, the lights have gone out on Beirut's commercial heyday and power shortages have left the city's streets and its residents shrouded in gloom.

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