The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, announced Tuesday that Hezbollah’s stance on the sea border demarcation file with Israel is “clear and obvious.”

The British Embassy Beirut has announced that applications for the UK Government’s flagship Chevening Scholarships program opened on August 2.

Applicants should apply online via www.chevening.org/apply by 1 Nov 2022.

Lebanon's prosecutor general decided a Syrian ship allegedly carrying Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia may leave a port in the country's north, officials said Tuesday. The move came after an investigation showed the vessel wasn't carrying stolen goods.

However, the Laodicea cannot immediately leave the port of Tripoli because a judge ordered Monday that it may not sail for 72 hours at the request of Ukrainian authorities. If the judge does not extend the order, the ship could sail in two days, a move likely to anger Ukraine.

The Supervisory Commission for Elections said Tuesday in a statement that "some media outlets have been referred to the Publications Courts for violations, including defamation, slander, opinion polls, hate speech and the breach of electoral silence."

It added that it had also referred complaints to the public prosecutors in Lebanon. The complaints included bribery, obstruction of the electoral process, and other criminal offenses.

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein met with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid after leaving Beirut on Monday, Lapid's office said Tuesday.

Hochstein's unannounced visit to Israel followed an "important" meeting in Baabda with President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, over the maritime border demarcation with Israel.

Former minister Michel Samaha was released from jail on Tuesday after years in prison, his lawyer Sakher al-Hashem said.

Hashem confirmed to MTV that Samaha is "in good health, having lunch at home."

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab negated Tuesday a zigzag line in the border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel.

"The zigzag line has not been proposed," Bou Saab told LBCI in an interview, adding that Lebanon is holding onto its blocs and would not accept partnership with Israel nor sharing its resources. "Who said we would accept a zigzag line," he asked.

The first cargo ship to leave Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbor more than five months ago has run into bad weather in the Black Sea and is set to arrive later than scheduled in Istanbul, a Turkish official said Tuesday.

The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, which set sail from the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday, is now expected to reach Istanbul early Wednesday, according to Rear Admiral Ozcan Altunbulak, a coordinator at the joint center established to oversee the grain shipments.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein did not carry a specific proposal but a number of proposed solutions that he discussed with the Lebanese leaders on Monday, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said.

Berri told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in remarks published Tuesday, that the Lebanese leaders have sensed this time "seriousness in the negotiations."

U.U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein did not present a proposal related to offshore block 8 or other blocks in his meeting with Lebanese leaders on Monday, a media report said.

“Hochstein told the conferees, ‘the Qana field is certainly fully yours, but Israel is saying that if you want to go to Naqoura, it will not accept any Lebanese demand south of Line 23,’” senior sources told al-Jadeed TV.