Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, led a Congressional delegation visit to Lebanon on April 13-15, the U.S. Embassy said.

The International Support Group for Lebanon on Tuesday urged Lebanese leaders to reach an “agreed electoral framework” and to organize “timely elections.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called on the political forces to seek a “fair” electoral law that does not aggravate the sectarian situation in the country.

The hybrid electoral law proposed by Speaker Nabih Berri and the proportional representation system proposed by Najib Miqati's government appear to have returned to the forefront of political discussions, a media report said on Tuesday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil's latest electoral law proposal has started to reel from blows dealt to it by both allies and rivals of the FPM, a media report said on Tuesday.

A dispute between two families escalated into an armed clash Monday in the northern Akkar district, state-run National News Agency reported.

A Lebanese man has been kidnapped and killed in the southern Caribbean Sea island country of Curacao, his family said.

MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc on Monday called on the political forces to seek the approval of a new electoral law during the May 15 legislative session as he stressed that no party in Lebanon can “impose” a certain electoral system on the other parties.

Israeli military vessels violated Lebanon's territorial waters off Ras al-Naqoura, the Lebanese Army Orientation Directorate said in a statement on Monday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi presided over a mass service on Monday in appreciation of France in presence of French Ambassador Emmanuel Bonne and a number of political figures, the National News Agency reported.

Rahi prayed for the prosperity and peace in France, saying: “We raise our prayers for the peace and prosperity of this dear country. Our prayers also accompany the beloved people of France, who are preparing these days to elect a new President of the Republic.”