Retired customs brigadier general M. A. R. was on Wednesday found dead inside his home in Qartaba, Jbeil district, the National News Agency said.

He suffered blows to the head from a sharp object, NNA added.

State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat on Wednesday heard the testimony of caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi over his latest remarks about the judiciary.

In his testimony, Fahmi said he “did not mean to insult the judicial authority,” the National News Agency said.

Several people were wounded Wednesday in a brawl at the Huvelin campus of the Saint Joseph University (USJ) in connection with the ongoing student elections at the university, the National News Agency said.

The clash had first erupted Tuesday between a group of students, reportedly belonging to Hizbullah and the Lebanese Forces.

United States envoy Ambassador John Desrocher visited Lebanon Wednesday for talks with officials, as part his ongoing mediation efforts on the Lebanon-Israel maritime boundary, the U.S. embassy said. 

Lebanon's president said Wednesday he wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and that disagreements during the last round of negotiations can be resolved based on international law.

President Michel Aoun spoke during a meeting with John Desrocher, the U.S. mediator for the negotiations, who was in Beirut for discussions with Lebanese leaders.

Head of the Health Parliamentary Committee MP Assem Araji said Wednesday that a meeting with the World Bank is expected later this week to discuss the risks of stopping subsidies on medicines in Lebanon, in light of a mounting shortage of drugs.

The French presidency reportedly said the US sanctions against the political class in Lebanon had “no impact” so far and will not ease the government formation gridlock, media reports said Wednesday.

France is hosting an international video conference on humanitarian aid for Lebanon Wednesday, amid political deadlock in Beirut that has blocked billions of dollars in assistance for the cash-strapped country hit by multiple crises.

The meeting, organized by France and the United Nations, is the second since the disastrous Aug. 4 explosion that destroyed Beirut's port and wrecked large parts of the capital. The blast, which also killed over 200 people and wounded thousands, was caused by the detonation of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrates that had been stored unsafely at a port warehouse for years.

The killer of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri will be sentenced on December 11, the Netherlands-based tribunal that convicted him said, with prosecutors asking for a life sentence.

The Lebanese Forces will not coordinate with the Free Patriotic Movement on any file because it believes that the FPM “is an inseparable part of the current parliamentary majority,” LF chief Samir Geagea said Tuesday.

“It accordingly bears major responsibility for the current situation,” Geagea added at a press conference, while stressing that “there is no understanding at all with President Michel Aoun.”