The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade as the percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022.
Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister, Abdallah Bouhabib, expressed condolences for the death of Iran's president and its foreign minister, with whom he had a close working relationship.
The EU has announced an aid package of about $1.06 billion for Lebanon, which will largely go to boosting border control in order to halt the flow of migrants and asylum seekers to Italy and Cyprus.