At the quest of President Michel Aoun, Army chief General Joseph Aoun held a meeting on Saturday with the Lebanese delegation tasked with “indirect” negotiations with Israel on delineating the maritime border, the Army Command-Orientation Directorate reported.

Caretaker Minister of Justice, Marie-Claude Najem reportedly inquired ambassadors of foreign countries that aided the probe into the colossal port explosion, about the “findings they reached so far to expedite the course of investigations,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Army helicopters began early on Saturday to suppress wildfires that have been raging for more than 36 hours in the outskirts of Akkar, the state-run National News Agency reported.

One person was killed in an explosion of a gas canister inside a building in the Beirut district of Ashrafieh on Saturday, hours after an explosion at a Bakery killed four in the neighborhood of Tariq el-Jedideh.

A powerful explosion rocked Beirut’s Tariq al-Jedideh district on Friday evening, sending plumes of smoke.

Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Friday warned the central bank against ending the subsidization of imported medicine, flour and fuel.

Forest fires were raging Friday in several regions across Lebanon amid a heatwave accompanied by strong winds.

The Lebanese Forces on Friday snapped back at ex-PM Saad Hariri over what it described as his “distortion of facts.”

Ex-PM Saad Hariri will launch contacts on Monday with all the parliamentary blocs that were present at the Pine Residence meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, media reports said on Friday.

Strong Republic bloc MP Ziad Hawwat filed a complaint with the Public Prosecution office on Friday about illegal border crossings and smuggling of Lebanon’s subsidized fuel into Syria.