President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East adviser, the Lebanese-American Massad Boulos, has enjoyed a reputation as a billionaire mogul at the helm of a business that bears his family name.

Boulos has been profiled as a tycoon by the world’s media, telling a reporter in October that his company is worth billions. Trump called him a “highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the international scene.”

The Vatican urged Lebanon on Friday to elect a president, after two years of vacuum amid deadlock between pro- and anti-Hezbollah blocs in parliament.

Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, who met Friday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, said the Vatican has been calling for the election of a president for two years.

An Israeli drone on Friday bombed the Tebna area near the Sidon district town of Bayssarieh, the state-run National News Agency said.

A meeting Wednesday between the Quint's ambassadors and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was "one of the best", Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Alaa Moussa said in a televised interview.

Moussa said that Berri is committed to electing a consensual president who supports the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.

Speaker Nabih Berri has two presidential candidates: ex-ambassador to the Vatican and former army intelligence chief Brig. Gen. George Khoury and MP Farid Haykal al-Khazen, Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Friday.

The Israeli army has claimed that Hezbollah militants were the target of a drone strike that killed a person in Khiam on Thursday and was swiftly condemned by caretaker PM Najib Mikati.

An Israeli drone targeted Thursday the square of the town of Khiam, reportedly killing one person and injuring another, a day after Israeli troops withdrew from the strategic town, handing it back to the Lebanese army.

The Lebanese army had warned civilians to stay out of Khiam until it can clear the area of any unexploded munitions. The strategic hilltop town, located less than 5 kilometers from the border with Israel, saw some of the most intense fighting during the war.

Independent MP Neemat Frem of Keserwan on Thursday officially announced his presidential nomination.

Four separate air strikes by Israeli forces, which killed at least 49 civilians and decimated entire families in Lebanon during the latest war, must be “investigated as war crimes,” leading international rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that he is willing to announce his nomination for the presidency “if there is an acceptable number of parliamentary blocs that are willing to endorse this nomination.”

“Nominating oneself is not heroism,” he noted, an in interview with the Hala London TV.