OGERO has secured an amount of diesel sufficient until next June, Telecommunications Minister Johnny Korm has announced.

Internet services were disrupted in half of Beirut on Sunday because of diesel shortages.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned Thursday to Lebanon and met with Prime Minister Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail.

They discussed the latest political developments and the general situation, Hariri's Media Office said.

In the dark streets of a Beirut now often without electricity, sometimes the only light that shines is from headlamps worn by scavengers, searching through garbage for scrap to sell.

Even trash has become a commodity fought over in Lebanon, mired in one of the world's worst financial crises in modern history.

Protesters and activists on Wednesday staged a sit-in outside the Justice Palace in Beirut in solidarity with a jailed man who took hostages Tuesday at a Bekaa bank and forced employees to give him $50,000 in cash from his own account.

A U.N. agency appealed Wednesday to the international community to donate tens of millions of dollars to help improve living conditions for Palestinians in crisis-hit Lebanon.

The appeal by the agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, is asking for an additional $87.5 million is to provide Palestinian refugees with cash assistance to the poorest, cover hospital expenses, as well as transportation for children so that they can go to school.

The International Support Group for Lebanon (ISG) said Wednesday that it has taken note of steps to reconvene the Council of Ministers, urging the resumption of its meetings as soon as possible.

A snowstorm in the Middle East has left many Lebanese and Syrians scrambling to find ways to survive, burning old clothes, plastic and in some cases even sheep manure to keep warm as temperatures plummet and poverty soars.

The storm, dubbed "Hiba" in Lebanon, began Tuesday night and is expected to peak on Thursday. The small country's massive economic collapse and currency crash has meant an increasing number of Lebanese families are not able to afford fuel to heat their homes this winter.

Parliamentary sources close to President Michel Aoun have described Hizbullah and Amal’s conditional return to Cabinet’s meetings as “precedent” that “violates both the constitution and the law.”

The EU Delegation and the EU Member States on Wednesday urged Lebanon to resume Cabinet sessions, prepare for elections, reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund and ensure justice in the port probe.

There is an inclination to devise a draft law aimed at postponing municipal elections, media reports said on Wednesday.