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Lebanon’s energy ministry said Friday that the country’s power plant should receive urgently needed fuel from Algeria on Monday, as citizens reel from electricity blackouts. The acting energy minister in Lebanon, Walid Fayad, told the radio station Voice of Lebanon that a freighter carrying the fuel was heading towards Lebanon. He added that ministry took a sample of the delivery and that it would be analysed in Dubai. If it meets the “required specifications,” Fayad said, Lebanon’s citizens would see a significant improvement in the state’s electricity supply starting Tuesday. In the crisis-s…

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