A session for the joint parliamentary committees was postponed Wednesday due to lack of quorum, Deputy Speaker Elie Ferzli announced.

U.S. ambassador Dorothy Shea has been reportedly quoted as saying that "some parties" have been obstructing the transfer of gas and electricity from Egypt and Jordan to Lebanon, al-Akhbar newspaper said.

Informed sources have told al-Akhbar, in remarks published Wednesday, that they suspect that KSA might be the party obstructing the deal.

A preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund is likely to be reached soon, as the negotiations have made an important progress, according to al-Joumhouria newspaper.

The daily said Wednesday that, according to its sources, an initial agreement might be signed in the upcoming hours, as Prime Minister Najib Miqati will meet tomorrow with the IMF delegation, before the team leaves Friday to the U.S.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati has vowed to remove anything that might threaten to disrupt the elections.

Miqati told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Wednesday that the government will carry on with implementing its program with perseverance and steadfastness.

Pope Francis is set to visit Lebanon in June, the country's presidency has said, amid spiraling financial and political crises in the tiny nation.

On 31 March 2022, the World Food Program, working hand in hand with WHO, UNICEF, sector partners and OCHA, delivered the last drop of fuel as part of emergency fuel operations under the U.N. coordinated Emergency Response Plan for Lebanon (ERP), the office of U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Najat Rochdi said on Tuesday.

Failure to secure funds and logistics necessary to provide uninterrupted power supply to polling stations on May 15 might become an excuse to postpone the parliamentary elections, a media report said on Tuesday.

“Electricite du Liban has informed the Interior Minister that it will only be able to supply a third of the polling stations with electricity,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

President Michel Aoun has intervened to impose a “compulsory agreement” on Free Patriotic Movement parliamentary candidates Ziad Aswad and Amal Abu Ziad, obliging them to be on the same electoral list in the Jezzine-Sidon district, media reports said on Tuesday.

The FPM’s list was announced overnight, only hours from the midnight deadline for the submission of electoral lists to the Interior Ministry.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun decided on Tuesday to lift travel bans against BLOM Bank chairman Saad al-Azhari and Bank Audi chairman Samir Hanna.

The decision came after the lawyer of the two banks, Sakher al-Hashem submitted a request to lift the travel bans to Judge Aoun.

The Central Bank is stumbling, economic expert Edmond Shammas told al-Jadeed on Tuesday, following a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh Shami about the Central Bank being bankrupted.

Shami had explained in a TV interview that his remarks had been quoted out of context.