Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Sunday issued a statement denying social media claims that she has voiced insults against Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

“I strongly condemn this demonic and militia-like approach to tarnish my reputation,” the judge said.

Head of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Jebran Bassil lashed out at Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri without naming him, which prompted a quick reply from Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal Movement.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari said on Saturday that the Kingdom is facing local and international challenges from criminal networks.

“Drug smuggling reveals the extent of challenges Saudi Arabia faces from local and international criminal networks,” Bukhari said in the aftermath of a reported drug smuggling operation to SA from Lebanon.

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.