Lebanon was among 141 nations that voted in favor of a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday, as five countries rejected it and 35 nations chose to abstain.

“The time has come to stop the Russian war machine and launch dialogue and a diplomatic and peaceful solution,” Lebanese diplomatic sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Thursday.

From his shock detention to an audacious escape from Japan hidden in an audio-equipment box, the rollercoaster saga of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has grabbed headlines worldwide.

As Ghosn's aide Greg Kelly is handed a six-month suspended jail sentence in Tokyo, here is a run-down of how events unfolded:

Former Nissan executive Greg Kelly was handed a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday by a Tokyo court over allegations he helped disgraced auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn attempt to conceal income.

The lead U.S. mediator in the Lebanon-Israel sea border talks, Amos Hochstein, has sent a written proposal to President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati, several Lebanese newspapers reported on Thursday.

Hochstein’s letter was delivered to Aoun, Berri and Miqati by the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, diplomatic sources told An-Nahar newspaper.

A senior delegation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury concluded a three-day visit to Lebanon on Wednesday.

The delegation met with members of the Lebanese government, civil society, and the banking sector to reiterate the U.S. government’s “commitment to stand with the Lebanese people during this time of economic turmoil,” the Treasury said in a statement.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday revealed his party’s tactics for the upcoming parliamentary elections and the names of Hizbullah’s candidates, the majority of whom are current MPs.

“In some districts, we will be on the same lists with allies and friends, and in other districts we might be on two lists under an agreement based on electoral interest,” Nasrallah said in a televised address dedicated to the issue of elections.

On a table covered in a green sheet, two Saudi officers pour out thousands of white amphetamine pills they have just seized from a neighborhood in the kingdom's Red Sea city of Jeddah.

An AFP crew accompanied the anti-narcotics agents on their raid Tuesday when police officers arrested three people carrying 28,000 Captagon tablets.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Wednesday noted that “the colonialist and expansionist West has no unified standards or values.”

“International institutions are a big lie,” Jumblat added in a tweet.

The Higher Judicial Council failed to convene yesterday due to a dispute between Council chief Judge Suheil Abboud and his deputy, State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat, over putting a letter demanding the prosecution of ISF chief Maj. Gen. Omad Othman on the session’s agenda, informed sources said.

A plane carrying 40 Lebanese students, who had been trapped in Ukraine, arrived Wednesday morning at Beirut's airport.

The Higher Relief Committee had earlier announced their arrival in a statement.