Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at the country's political forces for perpetuating "crises, seditions and grudges."

Layla Ibrahim has cut down on her daily meat consumption, not because of a health fad but forced by Lebanon's bruising economic crisis.

Talks between the Lebanese government and the International Monetary Fund over an economic recovery plan should make progress in the next two weeks, Prime Minister Najib Miqati said Saturday.

Speaking to reporters in Qatar, where he is attending the Doha Forum, Miqati said an IMF delegation will resume talks with the government in Beirut on Tuesday over the country's economic meltdown that began more than two years ago.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati held talks Saturday in Doha with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.

The British Embassy in Beirut has announced that it is "deeply concerned" by the closure by some Lebanese banks of certain accounts belonging to account holders in Lebanon who are nationals or residents of the United Kingdom.

The Tayyouneh case charges filed by State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea are based on accusations made during a recent YouTube interview, a media report said on Friday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held separate meetings Friday in Lebanon with President Michel Aoun and Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

The meeting with Aoun at the Baabda Palace was attended by the accompanying Iranian delegation, the Presidency said.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka has visited the Palestine refugee camp of Bourj al-Barajneh in Beirut's southern suburbs, accompanied by Claudio Cordone, Director of UNRWA Affairs, Lebanon.

She met with representatives of Palestinian factions in the camp and with refugee families. She also visited the UNRWA health clinic, the Women’s Programs Association and refugee shelters in the camp.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was convicted on charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser.

A federal jury in LA deliberated about two hours Thursday before finding the nine-term Republican guilty of concealing information and two counts of making false statements to authorities. Fortenberry was charged after denying to the FBI that he was aware he had received illicit funds from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Thursday issued an order asking the Customs administration to prevent six Lebanese banks from sending money abroad, al-Jadeed TV said.