Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab held talks Monday at his office with Qatari Ambassador to Lebanon Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz al-Sahlawi.

The Sierra Leonian-flagged Razoni ship, carrying 26,000 metric tons of corn for chicken feed that departed from Odesa last Monday will no longer dock in the northern Lebanese port.

According to Marine Traffic, it changed its status on Saturday to "order," meaning the ship was waiting for someone to buy the corn.

Sixteen independent and "change" MPs convened Monday at the Parliament to discuss the Parliamentary sessions' agendas and the method of voting.

The MPs will not discuss the upcoming Presidential election, MP Ashraf Rifi said before the meeting.

Free Patriotic Movement MP Salim Aoun said that there was a plan to beat President Michel Aoun since the start of its term as President.

"Only one year after Aoun's election as President, back then Prime Minister Saad Hariri was kidnapped," MP Aoun said. "The aim was to create a strife in Lebanon," he added.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called Monday the 67 MPs who are not supporters of the so-called Axis of defiance to cooperate in order to select a candidate for Presidency.

Geagea considered that "any reform plan must start with the election of a new President."

Israel is leaning toward delaying the border demarcation agreement with Lebanon until after the legislative elections in Israel, al-Akhbar said.

The daily reported Monday that a Kuwaiti official has conveyed a message from the U.S. to Lebanon that Israel will give Lebanon what it is asking for in the demarcation file after the Knesset elections.

Security Forces agents arrested Monday four detainees who had managed to escape with 27 others at dawn on Sunday from a detention center in Adlieh, a media report said.

31 detainees had fled the detention center on Sunday, after sawing their way through a window, according to a judicial official.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al- Rahi on Sunday voiced pain and anger over the latest "ugly" exchanges between PM-designate Najib Mikati and the Free Patriotic Movement.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday warned Israel against making a “miscalculation” towards Lebanon similar to the one he said it has made towards Gaza, where it has launched a major military operation against the Islamic Jihad group.

The first shipment of Ukrainian grain since Russia's invasion will no longer arrive in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Sunday as planned, Ukraine's embassy in Beirut said.