Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea dubbed Monday a meeting between a delegation of Arab parliamentary leaders and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as "shameful."

"It is truly shameful to see a delegation of Arab parliamentarians taking advantage of the tragic earthquake to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad," Geagea said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati told the ministers, in a cabinet session on Monday, that cabinet cannot extend the term of General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim and that the extension needs a law.

Local media had reported that Ibrahim's term might be extended through an administrative decision or a Cabinet resolution should parliament fail to hold a legislative session.

The Association of Banks in Lebanon on Friday announced the temporary suspension of the banking sector strike for a period of one week.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Friday thanked the Higher Judicial Council and all its members for issuing a statement that called on caretaker PM Najib Mikati and caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi to reverse two controversial decisions.

The Embassies of Australia, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom in Lebanon will light up on Friday night their shared Embassies’ Complex in Beirut in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

"Today marks a year since the brutal, unjustified and unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. In that year, thousands of innocent Ukrainian people have been killed, and millions forced from their homes," the Ambassadors of the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, and Japan said in a joint statement.

Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has described his party’s undeclared nomination of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh as “reasonable,” as he denied that Hezbollah backs the extension of Central Bank chief Riad Salameh’s term.

Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh is the leading presidential candidate, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab claimed Thursday.

"Some might not like this," Bou Saab said, in an interview with al-Manar TV, adding that he might vote for Franjieh if the latter needs only one additional vote to be elected as president.

Beirut Attorney General Judge Raja Hamoush on Thursday charged Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, his brother Raja and his assistant Marianne Hoayek with money laundering, public funds embezzlement, tax evasion, forgery and illicit enrichment, the state-run National News Agency said.

A ministerial delegation traveled to Ankara on Thursday morning to offer condolences to Turkey after the deadly February 6 earthquake.

Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib and Public Works and Transport Minister Ali Hamieh will meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and a number of Turkish officials to express Lebanon's support for Turkey.

The High Court of Justice in London has ruled that SAVARO Ltd is liable toward victims of the Beirut port blast and will have to pay compensations, the Beirut Bar Association Prosecution office said Thursday.

On 4 August 2020 , hundreds of tons of explosive ammonium nitrate, typically used in fertilizers, detonated, killing more than 200 people, injuring over 6,000 and damaging large parts of Beirut.