Relatives of victims killed in the Beirut port blast on Friday staged a sit-in outside Speaker Nabih Berri’s headquarters in Ain el-Tineh, demanding that he hold an extraordinary session to grant the families compensations similar to those granted to the families of the army’s fallen soldiers.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Friday contacted the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa, and the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, to express his condolences on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the late prime minister.

During the phone call with the Bahraini King, Hariri emphasized "the depth of the historic relations between Lebanon and Bahrain," a statement released by Hariri's press office said.

The Lebanese Army on Friday clarified why a U.S. military plane has landed at the Riyaq military airport in the Bekaa.

Caretaker Minister of Social Affairs Ramzi Msharrafieh announced Friday that the Lebanese government’s plan to repatriate Syrian refugees back home was adopted at this week’s Damascus conference on the displaced.

Free Patriotic Movement MP Cesar Abi Khalil said Friday that the party’s lawyers will challenge before US courts the recent sanctions imposed against its leader, Jebran Bassil.

The upcoming fifth round of maritime demarcation talks between Lebanon and Israel reportedly awaits the intervention of the U.S. mediator to solve some hurdles arising during their latest meeting, the Saudi Asharq el-Awsat reported Friday.

French presidential envoy Patrick Durel held talks Thursday with Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri at the Center House.

French presidential envoy Patrick Durel held talks Thursday in Haret Hreik with the head of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday told a French presidential envoy that only a “government of specialists” can rescue Lebanon from its multiple crises.

One person was killed and three others were injured in an explosion Thursday near a mango fermentation workshop in the Bekaa town of Taanayel.

Al-Jadeed TV said the blast went off as Syrian workers were carrying out welding works near the workshop.