Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati urged Wednesday all leaders and politicians to stop the obstruction approach and the political accusations.

Mikati dubbed the obstruction and accusations as "useless," adding that they have no meaning to "the people who are patiently suffering."

Hezbollah has “preferred to end the memorandum of understanding with the Free Patriotic Movement,” an FPM MP said on Tuesday.

Municipal police in the Dinniyeh town of Bakhoun ordered the immediate evacuation of a number of residential buildings in the wake of Monday’s new earthquake in Turkey that was strongly felt in Lebanon, media reports said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday met with Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Rudakov.

Minor 4.0- and 3.5-magnitude earthquakes struck off Lebanon’s southern coast on Tuesday, only hours after new 6.4- and 5.8-magnitude quakes rocked southern Turkey and were felt across Lebanon.

Lebanon’s National Center for Geophysics said the first quake hit 64 kilometers off the southern city of Sidon at 4:23 am. It was followed by a 3.5-magnitude tremor at 9:30 am, which struck 70 kilometers off Sidon.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing eight people and sparking fresh panic after a February 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries.

A Lebanese parliamentary delegation led by MP Ali Hassan Khalil has met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A Parliament Bureau meeting that was supposed to discuss the possibility of holding a legislative session was on Monday postponed to a date that would be announced later, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab said.

"While stressing parliament's right to legislate as happened in the past, the capital control format that was issued by the Joint Committees must be accompanied by a comprehensive plan. Accordingly, it has been decided to postpone Parliament Bureau's meeting to a later date," Bou Saab added after meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh has announced that he has decided to leave his post following the end of his term.

The European Union and Samir Kassir Foundation launched today, February 20, the 18th edition of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press.