At least 22 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché Ebrahim Ansari, are reported to have been killed in two blasts that targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Two explosions have rocked the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon killing at least 27 and more than 350.
Foreign ministers from the European Union have agreed to put the military wing of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the EU’s terror list.
Battles at towns near the Lebanese border and straddling the Israeli-Syrian disengagement line at the Golan Heights demonstrate how the Syrian civil war is slowly but surely drawing Syria’s neighbours into its orbit.
As the two sides argue about preconditions to attending the Geneva 2 negotiations, could the Syrian conlfict be about to spill over and engulf neighbouring Lebanon and Israel into war?