Lebanon's Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said on Friday the country's rubbish crisis had been '99 percent solved' at a government committee meeting on the issue. The Lebanese National News Agency quoted Machnouk and reported there would be a cabinet meeting on Saturday to finalize the agreement. It gave no further details. Politicians' failure to agree on a solution for garbage disposal has left mountains of trash piling up in and around Beirut for months and prompted warnings over the potential spread of diseases. Lebanon cancelled a plan to export its rubbish to Russia last month, a government agency said.
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