Washington has reportedly reached a “serious” conviction that the Lebanese state is “completely suspended" and may be a step away from being a "failed state,” al-Arabiya television station reported on Saturday.

Following Saudi Arabia’s decision to stop fresh produce imports from Lebanon over drugs smuggling, Lebanon said drug smuggling harms Lebanon’s reputation and that the file must be handled by the judicial bodies.

Head of the Health Parliamentary Committee, Assem Araji stated on Friday that Lebanon is expecting two million Pfizer and Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines between May and June this year.

Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun appeared before head of the Judicial Inspection Authority Judge Borkan Saad on Friday over a number of complaints, the latest was raiding the offices of Mecattaf money exchange company.

Army helicopters and teams from the ministry of agriculture will start battling swarms of desert locusts that appeared in the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal and in neighboring areas, media reports said on Friday.

Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun requested a probe into Hizbullah’s al-Qard Al-Hasan financial institution, and the import of Iranian medicines to Lebanon contradicting the WHO standards, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Friday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri held talks Thursday evening in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, his press office said.

The meeting, at the Italian government’s headquarters, tackled the latest developments and general situations in Lebanon and the region and the bilateral ties between the two countries, especially the role played by the Italian UNIFIL contingent operating in south Lebanon, the press office said in a statement.

Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc on Thursday called on Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to consult with President Michel Aoun in order to speed up the formation of the new government.

“The PM-designate’s consultation and agreement with the president for the issuance of the government’s decrees are not a luxury but rather the natural and constitutional path for Cabinet’s formation,” said the bloc in a statement issued after a periodic meeting.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday lashed out at the Free Patriotic Movement and its supporters in connection with the latest controversy sparked by the actions of Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun.

“The FPM has introduced new concepts to the dictionary of politics in Lebanon, with the protection of the rights of Christian lying in attacking and vandalizing private companies in Awkar, and the fight against corruption being in concealing the culprits as to electricity, telecommunications, customs, illegal border crossings and clientelism in state administrations,” Geagea said in a written statement.

President Michel Aoun on Thursday convened the country’s Higher Defense Council over yesterday’s incidents at the Mecattaf money exchange firm in Awkar.

The area outside the company witnessed scuffles between security forces and supporters of Aoun and his Free Patriotic Movement during a new raid by controversial Judge Ghada Aoun on the firm’s offices.