Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq met on Friday with the EU's head of mission for electoral monitoring Elena Valenciano, in the presence of EU Ambassador Christina Lassen where talks focused on the logistic and technical preparations for the parliamentary elections, the National News Agency reported.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri marked on Friday Lebanon’s 43rd civil war anniversary saying "lessons must be drawn" that lack of implementing legitimacy and disrespect for national coexistence are a “way to hell”

A mother of two who suffered from “mental health disorders” has stabbed her two young daughters killing one of them in the northern region of Wadi Khaled, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil are expected to separately visit "Lebanon's southern border area," 24 days before the country's parliamentary elections start, in a bid to "garner support" for their candidates running in the May 6 polls, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

"The visits have specific significance and bear political connotations," said the daily, since it comes shorlty before the elections.

Three people were killed Thursday in a landmine explosion in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Hujeiri, his son and Youssef Audeh were killed when their car hit a landmine in the al-Kheshen area in Arsal's outskirts,” NNA said.

Mount Lebanon prosecutor Ghada Aoun on Thursday ordered the detention of ad-Diyar newspaper owner and editor-in-chief Charles Ayoub over a libel and bounced check lawsuit filed by Northern Metn parliamentary candidate Sarkis Sarkis, the National News Agency said.

Ayoub was however released after a few hours over health concerns. Sarkis offered his consent to Ayoub's release at a press conference in which he praised the judiciary.

The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has ordered the Prosecutor, Defense counsel for the four Accused as well as the Legal Representatives of Victims in the Ayyash et al. case to file their final trial briefs by Monday, June 4, 2018, the STL said on Thursday.

“Any responses from the parties and participating victims should be filed by Monday 18 June 2018,” the court added in a statement.

The government on Thursday reiterated Lebanon's commitment to its so-called policy of 'dissociation' from regional conflicts, as it stressed that this policy does not involve accepting Israel's violations of Lebanon's airspace.

“There is Lebanese consensus on rejecting the violation of Lebanese sovereignty and Lebanon's airspace,” acting information minister Pierre Bou Assi said after a cabinet session in Baabda.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Thursday "appealed" to world leaders to "peacefully" end the wars ravaging in the region, after tensions mounted between the United States and Russia over an alleged chemical attack against civilians in Syria.

Several EDL contract workers and Lebanese University professors staged sit-ins on Thursday near the Presidential Palace in Baabda, as the government readies to convene under the chairmanship of President Michel Aoun to discuss the controversial file of electricity.