- World Report 2024: Lebanon (hrw.org)
Lebanon continued to grapple with an acute economic and financial crisis that has impoverished most of the population since 2019. Human rights conditions in the country deteriorated in 2023, with a noticeable uptick in prosecutions for critical speech, growing restrictions against refugees and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and continued impunity for previous abuses.
- Porrima (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
PORRIMA (Gamma Virginis). Follow the curve of the handle of the Big Dipper to the south as it first passes through orange Arcturus and then south of the sky’s equator through blue- white Spica. Just up and to the right of Spica lies dimmer, third magnitude Porrima, Virgo’s Gamma star (or Gamma Virginis).