Hizbullah praised in a statement Monday an attack by a pair of Arab gunmen who killed two Israeli police officers and wounded four in central Israel, before they were killed by police.

Hizbullah considered the attack to be "the most important and practical response to the disgraceful normalization meetings with the enemy."

UNIDO and UNDP have launched the “Lebanon Export Academy”, the first-of-its-kind in Lebanon, calling on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the agri-food and agriculture sector to apply to the academy.

The academy equips women and men-led MSMEs and Cooperatives in Lebanon with the required know-how and practical export skills to scale up their operations and foster their readiness to export.

Layal Aswad was already exhausted by Lebanon's devastating two-year economic collapse. Now, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine sends food and energy prices soaring even further, she finds herself struggling to put food on the table for her family of four.

"Even bread is not something we take for granted anymore," said the 48-year-old housewife, standing recently in a supermarket aisle in front of gallons of cooking oil whose prices had risen to an all-time high.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at the country's political forces for perpetuating "crises, seditions and grudges."

Layla Ibrahim has cut down on her daily meat consumption, not because of a health fad but forced by Lebanon's bruising economic crisis.

Talks between the Lebanese government and the International Monetary Fund over an economic recovery plan should make progress in the next two weeks, Prime Minister Najib Miqati said Saturday.

Speaking to reporters in Qatar, where he is attending the Doha Forum, Miqati said an IMF delegation will resume talks with the government in Beirut on Tuesday over the country's economic meltdown that began more than two years ago.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati held talks Saturday in Doha with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.

The British Embassy in Beirut has announced that it is "deeply concerned" by the closure by some Lebanese banks of certain accounts belonging to account holders in Lebanon who are nationals or residents of the United Kingdom.

The Tayyouneh case charges filed by State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea are based on accusations made during a recent YouTube interview, a media report said on Friday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held separate meetings Friday in Lebanon with President Michel Aoun and Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

The meeting with Aoun at the Baabda Palace was attended by the accompanying Iranian delegation, the Presidency said.