A gunman opened fire at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday, but was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with Lebanon's army and taken to a hospital.
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.