Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday hoped that parliament will be able to carry out the presidential election soon, urging all parties to realize that “no one has the luxury of wasting time amid the deterioration of the financial, economic and social situations.”

The Israeli army said Wednesday that soldiers killed an armed man suspected of entering northern Israel from Lebanon and blowing up a car, raising the risk of renewed tensions with Hezbollah.

"We are examining a possibility of the Hezbollah terrorist organization of being involved" with the suspected attacker who was shot dead on Monday, the army said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday stressed that the Lebanese are in “dire need of the election of a real and not pretended president for the country.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat met Wednesday in Kuwait with its Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, in the presence of Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday arrived in the Vatican on an official visit during which he will meet with Pope Francis, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

Head of the lawsuit department at the Justice Ministry Judge Helena Iskandar filed Wednesday a complaint against Central Bank chief Riad Salameh, his brother Raja, and his assistant Marianne Hoayek.

Iskandar had met earlier in the morning with a European legal team visiting Lebanon to probe Salameh's wealth. The judge is representing the Lebanese state at the questioning in the European probe.

Central bank chief Riad Salameh's interrogation session was postponed to Thursday, after he failed to appear Wednesday before visiting European investigators, part of a multinational probe into his personal wealth.

The European delegation — with representatives from France, Germany, and Luxembourg — spent about two hours at Beirut’s Justice Palace waiting for Salameh.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday described the Iranian-Saudi reconciliation agreement as a “major event,” hoping it will lead to a “settlement” in Lebanon and the “election of a president before June.”

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf will visit Lebanon in the last week of March as part of a tour of a number of countries in the region, a Lebanese official source said.

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday held talks in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.