Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin affirmed Friday after meeting with President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace that the Holy See attaches great importance to Lebanon, stressing international support for the reconstruction of Beirut after the explosion.

A month after a deadly port explosion killed over 190 people and destroyed swathes of Lebanon's capital, the government's account of the blast remains pockmarked with questions. 

In a blast-damaged tailor shop in the Lebanese capital, Claudette is back at work sewing the hem of an orange skirt as rescue teams dig nearby.

Prime Minister designate Mustafa Adib continues consultations to form a “small government of experts” capable of introducing much-needed reforms as demanded by France, amid reports that President Michel Aoun requested one with more ministerial portfolios, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Friday.

Rescuers resumed a search Friday for possible survivors under rubble in a destroyed Beirut building, buoyed by faint hopes of a miracle a month after a monster blast ripped through the city's port.

The cataclysmic August 4 explosion killed 191 people, making it Lebanon's deadliest peacetime disaster. One month on, seven people are still missing.

Anti-government civil society group “Red Line” announced on Thursday a shift from street protests in Martyr’s Square against the ruling elite channeling to strict political work as opposition.

Italy’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, arrived in Beirut Thursday bringing more aid for Lebanon after the colossal Beirut port blast, the National News Agency reported.

At the forefront of challenges facing PM-designate Mustafa Adib is whether Lebanon’s rival political parties will allow him to form a government of “experts” excluding political parties or any of their representatives, An Nahar daily wrote on Thursday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Wednesday said the Democratic Gathering parliamentary bloc has named Mustafa Adib for the PM post because “there is a unique French initiative to rescue what’s left of Greater Lebanon.”

In an interview with LBCI television, Jumblat added that comparing the approach of “democratic France” towards Lebanon to that of Syria’s pre-2005 administration of Lebanon would be a “silly and absurd claim.”

Lebanon recorded six deaths and 598 coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday evening.

In a statement, the Ministry said 588 of the cases were recorded among residents and only 10 among individuals entering from abroad.