President Michel Aoun urged the international community to intervene and end Israel’s aggression against Palestinians, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

NNA said that Aoun is following up on the latest developments in the occupied territories of Palestine amid Israel’s continued aggression against al-Aqsa mosque and east Jerusalem district of Sheikh Jarrah.

Director at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Firass Abiad “welcomed” the continuous drop in the Covid numbers, but said it would be “too early” to be optimistic.

The Lebanese army confiscated a drug manufacturing plant in the outskirts of the town of Bodai in Baalbek, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn told prosecutors during questioning on financial misconduct charges before he fled Japan that his compensation was never decided upon, according to records presented in Tokyo District Court on Tuesday.

Ghosn said the plans were just a "reference," said a defense attorney for Greg Kelly, a former Nissan executive on trial in connection with alleged underreporting of Ghosn's pay by about a billion yen ($10 million) per year.

The European Union expressed concern over the “political status-quo” in crisis-stricken Lebanon, saying a whole line of options is taken into consideration including pressuring the political class hampering a solution for Lebanon’s economic crisis, al-Joumhoria daily reported on Tuesday.

The European Union "expressed its dissatisfaction with the political stalemate Lebanon is witnessing, and preparations have begun to impose sanctions on political officials whom it considers responsible for the obstruction,” EU's Foreign Affairs Chief Josep Borrell announced on Monday evening.

The army said Monday it has foiled an attempt to smuggle 60 people, mostly from Syria, out of Lebanon, days after dozens of Syrians were caught trying to cross to Cyprus.

"A naval force unit stopped a boat detected by radar 10 nautical miles off the city of Tripoli" in northern Lebanon on Sunday, it said in a statement.

An Israeli helicopter gunship opened fire on Monday on a home at the edge of Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, wounding one person, Syrian state TV reported.

The TV said the unidentified man, reported to be a civilian, was taken to hospital for treatment following the attack on the southern Quneitra region.

Lebanon’s private hospitals on Monday began a strike that will last until Saturday in protest at a judicial verdict that has been issued in the case of the child Ella Tannous.

“The Syndicate of Hospitals in Lebanon announces that the admission of patients into the various departments of all private hospitals, including outpatient clinics, will be suspended from today until Saturday, May 15, 2021, except for emergency cases and dialysis and chemical therapy patients,” the Syndicate said in a statement.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri “has no choice but to resign, after all international and Arab sides that he met confirmed that he is not wanted and that any government that he would form would meet the same fate as Diab’s government,” March 8 sources have said.

Senior al-Mustaqbal Movement sources meanwhile did not deny these claims in remarks to al-Liwaa newspaper. The sources however said that Hariri will not take such a decision before two weeks.

Common friends of President Michel Aoun and PM-designate Saad Hariri have launched behind-the-scenes efforts aimed at securing the resumption of meetings between the two leaders to facilitate the formation of a new government, media reports said.

Political sources close to the various parties told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Monday that the efforts had kicked off on Friday, shortly after the end of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s visit to Lebanon.