Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has called on President Michel Aoun to “exert efforts with all those concerned to elect a president prior to the end of his term and to ‘do the impossible’ to achieve this.”

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab confirmed overnight that Lebanon has “received from U.S. mediator Amor Hochstein the coordinates of the sea buoys” that Israel wants to delineate as part of the maritime border demarcation agreement.

A book of condolences for Queen Elizabeth II will open for the public at the National Library in Beirut over the next four days, the British embassy said on Monday.

The book of condolences will be open during the following times:

Maronite Patriarch Beshra al-Rahi appeared Sunday to back a controversial move to name an alternate judge in the Beirut port blast case.

“It is unfortunate that the Lebanese have reached a state of mistrust and politicization, which is what’s happening today between the families of victims of the Beirut port bombing and caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that the LF does not want a presidential vacuum, noting that it is Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil who "does not want to endorse any president but himself."

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Friday voiced optimism over the visit that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein made to the country earlier in the day.

A Hezbollah official on Friday sounded the alarm over the latest U.N. Security Council resolution that extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Lebanon on Friday declared national mourning over the death of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.

Two handmade bombs were found Friday morning near a building in Milan where the Lebanese consulate is based, Italy’s official news agency ANSA said.

The alarm was triggered after a passerby noticed a package from which two electric cables were popping out.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein denied in his meetings with Lebanese leaders on Friday the presence of any link between reaching a sea border deal and Israel’s legislative elections, Lebanese TV networks said.