Lebanon foreign minister resigns in protest at crisis management

Lebanon’s foreign minister Nassif Hitti resigned Monday in protest at the government’s mishandling of a spiralling economic crisis, warning that if there is no will to reform “the ship will sink”. “I have decided to resign today as foreign minister,” Hitti said in a statement, charging that the government had shown no will to initiate changes demanded by the International Monetary Fund. “I participated in the government under the logic of…