Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday visited President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace to discuss a host of current issues.

“During the meeting, the essential topic was discussed, which is the need to form a government and to resolve the difficulties blocking this formation,” al-Rahi said after the talks.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Sunday lashed out at what he called “political absurdity” in Lebanon.

In a statement, Berri saluted “the Ramadan uprising of the Palestinian people at the al-Aqsa Mosque and in the neighborhoods of the city of Jerusalem.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday that he was “shocked” as he was watching on TV “a judicial incident that has nothing to do with judicial culture not with the traditions of the Lebanese judiciary ever since its inception.”

He was referring to the latest raid by Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on the offices of the Mecattaf money exchange firm in Awkar.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Sunday issued a statement denying social media claims that she has voiced insults against Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

“I strongly condemn this demonic and militia-like approach to tarnish my reputation,” the judge said.

Head of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Jebran Bassil lashed out at Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri without naming him, which prompted a quick reply from Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal Movement.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari said on Saturday that the Kingdom is facing local and international challenges from criminal networks.

“Drug smuggling reveals the extent of challenges Saudi Arabia faces from local and international criminal networks,” Bukhari said in the aftermath of a reported drug smuggling operation to SA from Lebanon.

Washington has reportedly reached a “serious” conviction that the Lebanese state is “completely suspended" and may be a step away from being a "failed state,” al-Arabiya television station reported on Saturday.

Following Saudi Arabia’s decision to stop fresh produce imports from Lebanon over drugs smuggling, Lebanon said drug smuggling harms Lebanon’s reputation and that the file must be handled by the judicial bodies.

Head of the Health Parliamentary Committee, Assem Araji stated on Friday that Lebanon is expecting two million Pfizer and Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines between May and June this year.

Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun appeared before head of the Judicial Inspection Authority Judge Borkan Saad on Friday over a number of complaints, the latest was raiding the offices of Mecattaf money exchange company.