Lead investigative judge into the Beirut port blast, Tarek al-Bitar, questioned the detained Customs chief, Badri Daher, over the colossal Beirut port blast, media reports said on Tuesday.

The Lebanese ambassador in Riyadh, Fawzi Kabbara emphasized on Tuesday that ties between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon are “deep and historic.

President Michel Aoun on Tuesday met at Baabda Palace with the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon, Ayaki Ito, with talks touching on displaced Syrians residing in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Mohammed Hajjar stressed on Monday that no obstruction powers will be given to any party in the new government, which will be formed of non-partisan experts as demanded by the PM-designate Saad Hariri.

Lebanon’s vaccination campaign against COVID-19 should accelerate to help control the virus spread, director of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital Doctor Firass Abiad said on Tuesday.

Poland's ambassador to the UN has been chosen to be the new envoy for Lebanon, diplomatic sources told AFP on Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri tweeted Monday that “the message has been received,” in an apparent response to remarks by President Michel Aoun to al-Joumhouria newspaper.

President Michel Aoun on Monday stressed the need for a quick formation of a government capable of dealing with the difficult economic and living conditions burdening the Lebanese for the last year and a half, the National News Agency reported.

The President also said the government should be formed according to specific criteria that respect the principles of equal distribution, while enabling those with powers to exercise their powers, without adopting the principle of “monopoly in the government formation process”.

Samir Merhi returned to Lebanon in 2009, hoping the fortune he made abroad would let him retire comfortably at home, but the country's economic crisis has upended his dreams and forced him to leave again.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Monday that a government must be formed in Lebanon within “two months” otherwise the whole country will drown like the Titanic.