Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab met overnight in New York with U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein to discuss the sea border demarcation file, as Israeli media reports said a final agreement is expected within two weeks.

Israeli business news website Globes meanwhile quoted a source familiar with the negotiations as saying that there is “hope is to finalize the agreement within two weeks, but a few contentious items are delaying the process.”

The Ambassadors of the EU and its Members States resident in Beirut, along with the Ambassadors of Switzerland and Norway, met with President Michel Aoun on Tuesday to express “grave and growing concern about the current situation in Lebanon,” EU Ambassador to Lebanon Ralph Tarraf said.

“We urged the President to do his utmost to support and actively contribute to the implementation of the crucial economic, monetary and fiscal reforms that Lebanon has committed to,” Tarraf tweeted.

A U.S. court has ordered Hezbollah to pay millions of dollars in damages to a group of Americans who sued saying they were wounded by the group's rockets during the 2006 war with Israel.

The case was brought under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act and alleged that Hezbollah caused the plaintiffs physical and emotional injury and damaged their property. The judge ordered Hezbollah to pay damages of $111 million to the plaintiffs.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea met Tuesday with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari in Maarab.

Bukhari had met on Monday with Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat.

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Mikati had on Monday took part in the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London before leaving for the United States where he will lead Lebanon’s delegation to the works of the U.N. General Assembly.

Caretaker Prime Minister and PM-designate Najib Mikati on Monday took part in the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London.

Mikati was accompanied by his wife.

President Michel Aoun announced Monday that “the negotiations to demarcate the southern maritime border have become in their final stages, in a manner that guarantees Lebanon’s rights to gas and oil exploration in the specified fields in its Exclusive Economic Zone.”

Aoun voiced his remarks in a meeting in Baabda with U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka.

Demonstrators on Monday tried to storm the Justice Palace in Beirut in protest at the continued detention of two activists who had taken part in the “heist” that targeted BLOM Bank on Wednesday.

The protesters reportedly managed to remove the metallic gate of the Palace as they also blocked roads in the area and set fire to trash bins.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called for the formation of “a capable new government.”

He also called for “the election of a president before the end of the (incumbent) president’s term on October 31.”

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday announced that his group is giving a chance to the negotiations aimed at finding a sea border deal between Lebanon and Israel but warned that gas extraction by Israel from the Karish field would be a “red line” that would necessitate a response.

“Lebanon is before a golden chance that might not be repeated,” said Nasrallah about the offshore gas resources, in a televised address marking Arba'een, an annual Shiite religious observance that marks 40 days after the death of Imam al-Hussein in the Battle of Karbala (680 CE).