Russia pulled out of a deal brokered by the U.N. and Turkey to allow Ukraine's grain to flow during a global food crisis. It helped stabilize food prices that soared last year after Russia invaded Ukraine — two countries that are major suppliers of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other food to developing nations.

Lebanon, Egypt -- the world's largest wheat importer, and other lower-income Middle Eastern countries like Pakistan worry about what comes next.

Dany Salameh was already ill but a blast that devastated Beirut's port three years ago aggravated his condition, leaving him dependent on a walker and feeling abandoned by authorities.

People hurt or disabled by the catastrophic explosion told AFP that Lebanon, bankrupt and politically paralysed, has failed to deliver adequate medical care, financial support or justice.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday described the deadly clashes at the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp as “painful.”

Fruit and vegetable seller Ismail Akkawi had no choice but to brave days of intermittent but deadly fighting in Lebanon's biggest Palestinian refugee camp in order to make ends meet.

The produce market at the heart of the restive Ain al-Helweh camp -- in the southern coastal city of Sidon -- is usually bustling with vendors, but few have ventured out since clashes broke out in the camp late Saturday.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab held talks Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel has held responsible for the deadly clashes in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh near Sidon.

Cabinet convene Tuesday to resume the discussion of the 2023 state budget.

Last month, the ministers received the budget draft law from the Finance Ministry and cabinet started successive sessions to discuss and approve it.

The date of a dialogue between different Lebanese parties over the presidential crisis has almost been confirmed, al-Joumhouria newspaper said.

French diplomatic sources told the daily, in remarks published tuesday, that it is almost confirmed that the dialogue will take place in early September.

Thousands of mourners have gathered in south Lebanon for the funeral of a Palestinian military general with the Fatah group, whose killing in a refugee camp in Lebanon fueled fierce sectarian street battles that have killed at least nine people.

Three days of clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp have pitted members of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party against Islamist groups accused of gunning down the general, Abu Ashraf al Armoushi, on Sunday.

Three days of fighting in south Lebanon's Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp have left at least 11 dead and dozens wounded, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said on Monday.

Clashes broke out over the weekend between members of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement and Islamist militants based in the camp, Lebanon's largest located in the coastal city of Sidon.