Many legal, technical and financial obstacles that had been hindering the agreement to import Egyptian gas to Lebanon have been removed, media reports said on Monday.

Sources asserted to al-Akhbar newspaper that “the agreement will also include the shipment of the imported gas to Al-Zahrani, which will lead to the operation of the two largest power plants in Lebanon.”

An Iranian fuel tanker is about to reach Lebanon and has become near the entrance of the Suez Canal, the Iranian Mehr news agency has reported.

The army commemorated its martyrs in a tweet Monday, on the fourth anniversary of Fajr al-Jouroud battle.

“We remember our righteous martyrs who transformed with their blood violated barren hills into an oasis,” the army said.

The situation in the southern towns of Maghdouche and Anqoun was "calm" on Monday after the army's intervention, MP Michel Moussa, who hails from Maghdouche, said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday criticized the "delay" in the port blast investigations.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday launched a fresh attack on the lead investigative judge into the port blast case, this time over the latter’s subpoenaing of caretaker PM Hassan Diab.

The Presidency press office responded Friday to the statement of the ex-prime ministers condemning the subpoena issued by the port blast lead investigator Judge Tarek Bitar against caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab.

The press office said in a statement that the terms used by the ex-PMs -- Saad Hariri, Najib Miqati, Fouad Saniora and Tammam Salam -- about a “veiled justice” and a “politicized judiciary” are “insulting” and “disgraceful” to the judiciary.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan on Friday hit out at President Michel Aoun over his “hell” remarks as he threw his support behind caretaker PM Hassan Diab in connection with the port blast investigation.

Parliament's secretary-general Adnan al-Daher sent Friday a memo to the public prosecution saying that the lead investigator into Beirut's massive port explosion Judge Tarek Bitar “has no jurisdiction to subpoena caretaker premier Hassan Diab.”

The memo stated that Diab had received a subpoena to appear before Bitar on August 26, adding that Bitar has “no jurisdiction, according to the constitution and law.”

The press office of caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan announced Friday that “things are getting better” after the raids carried out by the minister on medicine warehouses.