PM Tammam Salam held a meeting on Friday with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, Anne Richard where talks highlighted the burden of Syrian refugees on Lebanon.

“We always call on all relevant officials to ease the burden of Syrian refugees on Lebanon,” Salam told Richard.

European Union leaders, faced with a staggering migration crisis and deep divisions over how to tackle it, managed to agree early Thursday to boost border controls to ease the influx and to send 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to international agencies helping refugees at camps near their home countries.

The leaders also pledged to boost support to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan to help them cope with the millions fleeing the fighting in Syria.

European Union leaders, who will gather for an emergency summit on the migration crisis on Wednesday, are expected to give extra funding to Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and U.N. agencies.

The leaders are hoping that the funding would help stop the flow of refugees to Europe.

Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders has said the only way to halt the flow of migrants pouring into Europe is to end the war in Syria, advising the European Union to hold talks with Lebanese officials.

Koenders, who visited a refugee camp in the eastern Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, said: "It is not only a question of border controls and quotas. If the war in Syria does not end, people will keep coming."

The Hungarian government placed advertisements in the Lebanese press on Monday warning of "the strongest possible action" against anyone attempting to cross its borders illegally.

But a full-page notice in other local newspapers featured a letter by the Doctors Without Borders group urging the European Union to open its borders to refugees.

The Internal Security Forces arrested a Lebanese national in the eastern Bekaa valley on charges of carrying out terrorist attacks in the area in favor of the Salafist al-Nour Brigades, an ISF statement said on Monday.

The detainee was arrested on charges of tossing explosives in towns and villages in the Bekaa in collaboration with a Lebanese who had been arrested earlier.

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The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is awaiting the legal response of the involved parties on the verdict it issued last Friday in the contempt case raised by the “Friend of the Court” or Amicus Curiae against al-Jadeed S.A.L. and the station's deputy chief editor Karma Khayat.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat said on Monday that the list of corrupt politicians in Lebanon is endless, expressing surprise at the fact that the protesters held banners in Sunday's demonstration limiting corruption to only three, including him.

“Yes I am part of this political strata condemned by the popular civil society movements, and I am accused until proven guilty. But at the same time I have the right to express surprise at the fact that they have limited the accusations of corruption to only three politicians, raising their pictures in the demos,” Jumblat told As Safir daily on Monday.

Unknown assailants torched a cafe in Tyre but reports said only material damages were reported, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.

Al-Halabi cafe was set on fire at dawn, and residents of the area rushed to extinguish it before the fire expanded further, NNA said.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam traveled on Sunday to the United Arab Emirates where he paid condolences to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice President and Ruler of Dubai over the death of his eldest son.

Education Minister Elias Bou Saab accompanied Salam in his visit, the National News Agency said.