Cabinet on Wednesday approved important administrative and financial appointments amid the boycott of Marada Movement’s two ministers Lamia Yammine and Michel Najjar.

Wassim Mansouri, Salim Chahine, Bashir Yaqzan and Alexander Moradian were named as deputies for the central bank governor, as Maya Dabbagh was named head of the central bank's Banking Control Commission and Kamel Wazni, Joseph Haddad, Marwan Mikhail and Adel Dreiq were appointed as its members.

Lebanon on Wednesday confirmed twenty more COVID-19 coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said.

Twelve of the new cases were recorded among residents and eight among repatriated expats, the Ministry added in its daily statement.

Ex-PM Saad Hariri on Wednesday blasted his once-close ally Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea over remarks the latter made to Egyptian daily al-Ahram.

“I didn’t know that your calculations are this accurate. Was I supposed to thank you because had it not been for you, I would have faced my end? Is this reasonable?” Hariri said in a sarcastic tweet.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea said in an interview to al-Ahram Egyptian newspaper on Wednesday that “the crisis in Lebanon is getting worse without any glimmer of hope.”

A number of private power generator owners around Lebanon decided to ration power supply to their customers allegedly over diesel shortage, in a bid to pressure an increase in tariff, media reports said on Wednesday.

The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, criticized by the United States and Israel, needs to be "more agile and mobile," UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a report published Tuesday ahead of the mission's renewal in August.

Anti-government protesters on Tuesday rallied and blocked roads in several Lebanese regions as the U.S. dollar reached the record high of around LBP 4,500 on the black market.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday said the June 6 demo and incidents “did not resemble October 17, 2019 in anything.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Tuesday criticized President Michel Aoun’s decision to refuse and return the proposed judicial appointments.

Ex-PM Saad Hariri lashed out Tuesday at the Presidency and the Free Patriotic Movement in connection with a number of recent files.