the war raging in the Middle East. "As of today, more than 667,000 people in Lebanon have now registered on the (Lebanese) government's online platform as displaced -- and this is an increase of 100,000 in just one day," said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the UN refugee agency's representative in Lebanon. "That's a faster pace of displacement compared to 2024," she told reporters  in Geneva, speaking from Beirut. (Bssnews)