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Lebanese banks plan a two-day strike next week in protest at judicial actions that targeted seven major lenders, a standoff that risks more instability for a country mired in crisis since 2019. The banking association said the strike was a warning against what it called “the arbitrariness of some judicial decisions” – a reference to orders that have frozen the assets of seven banks since March 14 and banned six of their executives from travel. Prime Minister Najib Mikati said actions taken by some judges were heightening tensions and he had asked the public prosecutor to “take appropriate meas…