Move allowing people to withdraw limited amounts of US dollars at double the previous rate amounts to a de facto recognition of the Lebanese pound's devaluation

Nearly a dozen demonstrators enter the Ministry of Social Affairs in Beirut in protest of 'unbearable' conditions, remove a picture of President Michel Aoun

PM Mikati's office says authorities to launch an investigation into latest case of desperate citizens -- mostly Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian -- attempting to flee to Europe

Protester says low turnout is due to 'fear and weariness' and because 'people are exhausted'

Dedicating nearly a quarter of his speech to the issue, Nasrallah says terror group has a 'big problem' with Tarek Bitar

Country's civil defense chief says fire under control and 'disaster' averted; energy minister says flames consumed some 250,000 liters of gasoline

King Abdullah II tells Lebanese leader Najib Mikati that Amman will 'always stand by the side of Lebanon and its brotherly people'

Move ends almost 24 hours of total blackout after central plants ground to a halt amid oil shortages

Due to fuel shortages amid financial crisis, al-Zahrani and Deir Amar electricity plants shut down; citizens will have to rely on private generators, which use scarce diesel

In violation of sanctions on Tehran, fuel to be taken overland into Lebanon, which is in an ongoing economic crisis