Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri returned Monday to Beirut from the United Arab Emirates.

Shortly after his return, Hariri visited Ain el-Tineh for talks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the state-run National News Agency said.

French investigators interrogated former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn Monday in Lebanon, where he has sought refuge since a dramatic escape from Japan, a court source said.

Ghosn, his defense team, a Lebanese prosecutor sitting in on the hearing and the visiting French judges met at 10:00 am (0700 GMT) in the Court of Cassation where the interrogation over alleged fraudulent activities went underway, the source said.

Pope Francis said Sunday he would invite Lebanon's Christian leaders to the Vatican on July 1 to reflect and pray for "peace and stability" in the crisis-hit country.

Lebanon is in the throes of a double economic and political crisis.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will return to Beirut within the next 24 hours, al-Mustaqbal Movement deputy head Mustafa Alloush said on Sunday.

“He will study the new developments resulting from Speaker Nabih Berri’s initiative and in light of that he will make new choices or a new decision,” Alloush said in an interview with Radio All of Lebanon (93.3).

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Sunday posted a morning greeting on his official Twitter account, hours after social media rumors claimed that he was being detained in the UAE.

“Good morning. How are you today?” Hariri said to how followers.

Lebanon vaccinated more than 10,000 people on Saturday as part of a day-long vaccine "marathon" organized by the health ministry to ramp up inoculation rates in the crisis-hit country.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will return to Beirut Sunday to “put touches and contribute to the efforts aimed at resolving the two obstacles related to the two ministers who will be named for the interior and justice portfolios,” al-Liwaa newspaper said on Saturday.

Lebanese composer and singer Samir Sfeir has said he is holding no grudge against the authorities in Saudi Arabia after he was detained for around 50 days in the kingdom.

Sfeir, who had residency in the kingdom for five years, told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Lebanon that he is now banned from returning after being deported.

UNIFIL on Friday handed over one of its positions to the Lebanese Army, its "strategic partner," at a ceremony in south-western Lebanon, the U.N. force said.

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col handed over U.N. position “2-45A” to Brigadier General Maroun Kobayati, who represented Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun.