As pressure continues to mount on affected people in Lebanon and vulnerabilities continue to deepen day after day, the Humanitarian Coordinator a.i, Edouard Beigbeder, announced that the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) has allocated US$8 million to meet urgent needs and enhance preparedness ahead of the fast-approaching winter, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Lebanon said.

"Vulnerable families in Lebanon are affected by insufficient access to water, unaffordable prices of basic commodities, limited access to life-saving services, thus taking desperate measures to survive, and we need to act now and avoid a further deterioration of the humanitarian situation," stated the Humanitarian Coordinator a.i.

Six Syrians including two infants have died of thirst and hunger as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea in a makeshift boat that likely sailed from Lebanon.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Monday confirmed that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has made new proposals regarding the sea border demarcation file.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Monday stressed that it is still coordinating its patrols with the Lebanese Army, dismissing rumors and false reports in this regard.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has called on President Michel Aoun to “exert efforts with all those concerned to elect a president prior to the end of his term and to ‘do the impossible’ to achieve this.”

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab confirmed overnight that Lebanon has “received from U.S. mediator Amor Hochstein the coordinates of the sea buoys” that Israel wants to delineate as part of the maritime border demarcation agreement.

A book of condolences for Queen Elizabeth II will open for the public at the National Library in Beirut over the next four days, the British embassy said on Monday.

The book of condolences will be open during the following times:

They literally run the country.

In parking lots, on flatbed trucks, hospital courtyards and rooftops, private generators are ubiquitous in parts of the Middle East, spewing hazardous fumes into homes and businesses 24 hours a day.

Lebanon's central bank lifted its remaining subsidies on fuel on Monday, gas station owners said, ending a year-long process of scaling back on the expensive program.

The Central Bank over a year ago announced it would gradually lift fuel subsidies, to slow down the draining of its foreign exchange reserves. Fuel subsidies once cost the cash-strapped country some $3 billion annually. Last week, it subsidized just 20% of the cost of fuel imports.

Maronite Patriarch Beshra al-Rahi appeared Sunday to back a controversial move to name an alternate judge in the Beirut port blast case.

“It is unfortunate that the Lebanese have reached a state of mistrust and politicization, which is what’s happening today between the families of victims of the Beirut port bombing and caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.