The Presidential Palace prepares for three trips abroad that President Michel Aoun plans to make between September and October, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s media office denied media reports claiming that his latest visit to France was to seek French President Emmanuel Macron’s mediation with SA on the formation of Lebanon’s government.

A Canadian woman pregnant with her third child says she was served a cleaning agent at a McDonald's restaurant instead of the latte she ordered.

Sarah Douglas said that she was taking her son to a baseball tournament in the Alberta town of Lethbridge when they stopped at the McDonald's drive-thru for the coffee. When she took a sip she knew something was wrong and pulled over to spit it out.

A senior Hizbullah official blamed “embassies of regional countries” for the delay in the formation of Lebanon’s Cabinet, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Elie Ferzli said on Monday he has a proposal that will likely facilitate the government formation process after more than two months since the designation.

In light of “aggravating” stalemates obstructing the formation of Lebanon’s government, a meeting between Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil (Free Patriotic Movement chief) is expected to take place this week to address the issue, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed on Sunday saying “we can’t promise you the future we want if we can’t get a balanced government.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Sunday that political parties “have no right” to further obstruct the formation of the country’s government after over two months since the designation of the prime minister.

MP Wehbe Katicha of the Strong Republic (of the Lebanese Forces) parliamentary bloc said it is “unfair” to blame the LF for the Cabinet formation delay, stressing the party’s right to get a so-called sovereign portfolio being the “second largest Christian bloc in the parliament.”

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s adviser on Russian affairs, Georges Chaaban, revealed some “practical steps” to establish frameworks for the return of displaced Syrians from Lebanon, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday.