At a time when Lebanon is "fighting" to fully secure its southern maritime border rights through indirect negotiations with Israel, the confusion came from Syria which seems to be “infringing” on thousands of kilometers from Lebanon’s northern borders, al-Hadath television station reported on Friday.

PM-designate Saad Hariri will reportedly make a trip to the Russian capital later in April for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Friday.

Grand Mufti of the Republic Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan explained on Friday that getting coronavirus vaccine or a PCR test do not break the fast during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.

Eight months after the devastating Beirut port explosion, Germany will reportedly suggest a plan to rebuild the port in a bid to encourage Lebanese leaders to form a much-needed government in crisis-wracked Lebanon, media reports said Friday.

The French presidency announced that President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who met on Thursday, share "the same desire to see a credible government" in Lebanon to bring it out of its acute crisis, media reports said Friday.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday formally announced the appointment of Joanna Wronecka of Poland as his new Special Coordinator for Lebanon.

Wronecka succeeds Ján Kubiš of the Slovak Republic to whom the Secretary-General is "grateful for his commitment and leadership," a U.N. statement said.

Official sources at the presidential palace hinted Thursday that Baabda wants the latest initiative to resolve the cabinet crisis to succeed, as they criticized PM-designate Saad Hariri for traveling to the UAE.

“The train of the initiative took off from Baabda but the Center House stop seems to be closed and the person in charge of it has traveled,” the sources told the privately-run Central News Agency.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday reminded that his calls for demarcating the Lebanese-Syrian sea border had fallen on deaf ears.

“From July 2010 until 2017, when I was energy minister and foreign minister, I sent more than 20 official letters to officials in Lebanon and Syria to urge them to resolve the sea border problem between the two countries,” Bassil tweeted.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday warned that the country will collapse if the new government is not formed soon.

“Yes, unfortunately, Lebanon faces the threat of collapse if the situation remains as it is without a government,” Berri said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday urged Lebanese authorities to take urgent action to prevent Lebanon from “losing 750 square kilometers of our northern territorial waters.”

“In 2014, the Assad government objected to Lebanon’s oil and gas exploration, and in May 2017, the Lebanese government sent the Assad government a memo demanding communication to unify the vision regarding the border but it received no answer,” Geagea said in a televised address.