A shipowner wanted over the 2020 blast at Beirut port that killed more than 220 people has been arrested in Bulgaria, officials said Tuesday.

The August 4, 2020 disaster was one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions, ravaging swathes of the Lebanese capital and injuring more than 6,500 people.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday announced that “the picture after the (Israeli) aggression against Doha has become clear and the response to it must be equally clear.”

The owner of the ship Rhosus that delivered the ammonium nitrate that exploded at Beirut’s port, Igor Grechushkin, has been arrested in Bulgaria based on a red Interpol notice issued by the Lebanese judiciary in 2020, Al-Jadeed TV reported on Monday.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Monday criticized Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon despite its ceasefire with Hezbollah.

“In Lebanon, the Lebanese government’s acceptance of a U.S. paper is being met with bombardment and assassinations, and Israel is seeking to push it into civil war in order for it to halt its attacks on it,” Sheikh Tamim lamented during an emergency Arab-Islamic summit responding to Israel’s unprecedented airstrike against Hamas officials in Doha.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji met Sunday in Qatar with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting that prepared for Monday’s emergency Arab-Islamic summit.

The talks extensively tackled the situations in Lebanon and the region, with Rajji emphasizing upon the Lebanese government’s decision to monopolize arms and extend the state’s sovereignty across the country.

President Joseph Aoun met Monday in Doha with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on the sidelines of an emergency Arab-Islamic summit that will be held in Qatar to discuss Israel’s latest attack on Hamas members in the Qatari capital.

During the meeting, Aoun reiterated his condemnation of the Israeli attack and stressed Lebanon’s “solidarity with Qatar and the brotherly Qatari people,” thanking Doha for “the support it has offered to Lebanon during the various circumstances.”

Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar said Monday that authorities dismantled a network that was preparing to smuggle hashish and the illicit stimulant captagon to Saudi Arabia.

Lebanon has faced pressure from Gulf states to counter the production and trafficking of drugs, particularly the amphetamine-like narcotic captagon, for which the conservative monarchies are a major market.

French investigators have opened a corruption inquiry into former Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati, lawyers who made the formal complaint said.

Mikati, a 69-year-old billionaire telecoms tycoon, was prime minister until January this year.

The Lebanese health ministry said one person was killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike in the south of the country, where Israel frequently says it is targeting Hezbollah members or assets.

"A raid by the Israeli enemy on a car in the town of Burj Qalaway killed one person," the ministry said in a statement.

Alexandre Paulikevitch put on his white dress and wig and danced his way to center stage, knowing that the extremist groups who had threatened him before his controversial recital might be waiting for him outside the theater.

The Lebanese dancer's sold-out performance to a cheering crowd at a popular Beirut venue had angered fundamentalist movements ranging from the right-wing Christian Soldiers of God to Sunni Islamists.