World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al Mandhari will visit Beirut from 16-17 September, the WHO said.

“During the visit, the delegation will meet with high level officials, including the President, Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament and Minister of Public Health, U.N. and NGO partners, and international partners. They will also visit several health facilities to review the response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” a WHO statement said.

The Foreign Ministry building witnessed pandemonium on Monday after the Ministry’s secretary general, Hani Chemaitelly, tried to bar the outgoing deputy PM and defense and foreign minister, Zeina Akar, from entering a department containing the telegrams that come from abroad.

Sources close to Akar told local newspapers that the outgoing minister “wanted to bid farewell to the employees there and to thank them.”

Outgoing Defense Minister Zeina Akar on Tuesday thanked the army officers who worked alongside her at the Ministry, noting that the army "maintained its high readiness and preserved security" in the country during her tenure.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Tuesday presided over a meeting for the ministerial committee tasked with drafting the new government's policy statement.

The National News Agency said the committee discussed ministers' remarks over the draft and it was decided to hold a third meeting on Wednesday.

The Appeals Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) has scheduled an appeals hearing to take place from 4 to 8 October 2021 in the case of Prosecutor v. Merhi and Oneissi, the STL said on Monday.

The case relates to the 14 February 2005 attack in Beirut that killed 22 people including former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and injured 226 others.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced Monday that a ship carrying diesel from Iran has arrived in Syria’s Banias and that the transfer of fuel by land to Lebanon would begin on Thursday.

“In order not to embarrass the Lebanese state, we restored to the other option, which is for the ship to dock in Banias, and the Syrian state facilitated the movement at the Banias port and provided tankers for the transport of fuel products,” Nasrallah said in a televised address.

The lead investigative judge into the Beirut port blast case, Tarek Bitar, on Monday interrogated former army chief General Jean Qahwaji, who appeared before him as a suspect.

The questioning session was held in the presence of Qahwaji’s lawyer, Antoine Toubia, and the claimant team that represents the families of the victims.

The Ministry of Finance was informed on Monday from the International Monetary Fund that Lebanon will receive about $1.135 billion “as part of the Special Drawing Rights,” the National News Agency said.

The Ministry of Finance had asked the International Monetary Fund to transfer the special drawing rights that Lebanon can benefit from, especially those belonging to the year 2009.

President Michel Aoun said during the new Cabinet's first session on Monday that the priority is for easing citizens' daily suffering as PM Najib Miqati said that the government will address the country's fuel and medicine shortage crises.

The central bank will give pre-approvals to all seven oil importing companies to import seven fuel ships, according to TV channels.