World leaders on Sunday pledged more than 250 million euros for disaster-struck Lebanon, conference host France said, with the emergency aid to be delivered "directly" to a population reeling from the deadly port blast in Beirut.
Two members of Lebanon's government have quit over a deadly blast that unleashed public rage against the country's ruling class, with protesters and police fighting running battles in the capital for a second day.
Lebanon's information minister Manal Abdel Samad on Sunday quit in the first government resignation since a deadly port blast killed more than 150 people and destroyed swathes of the capital.