The Lebanese opposition has prepared a plan for resolving the Syrian refugee crisis that is based on two steps: distributing the refugees on Arab countries and halting the work of UNHCR (U.N. refugee agency) in Lebanon, media reports said.
UNHCR is “not only spending money to consolidate the presence of 850,000 refugees registered on its lists, but also on 900,000 unregistered (Syrian) migrants,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday, quoting opposition sources.

The 28th edition of the European Film Festival in Lebanon has closed at Galaxy Grand Cinemas with the short film competition award ceremony, followed by the Avant-premiere of Lebanese feature film “Riverbed”.
Ambassador of the European Union to Lebanon, Sandra De Waele, awarded the Best Short Film Prize equally to three short films selected by an international jury, in the presence of Ambassador of Poland, Przemysław Niesiołowski, Director of Goethe- Institut Libanon, Anne Eberhard, and Cinema project manager at Institut français du Liban, Leïlah Gruas-Girling:

Lebanon's LGBTQ community has been reeling from months of snowballing hostility, as activists in one of the Middle East's more liberal countries worry about deteriorating personal and political freedoms.
Rights advocates and LGBTQ community members told AFP they have been harassed and even received death threats in recent months as controversy has raged over everything from rainbow imagery to family values and the "Barbie" movie.

A senior Arab League official has arrived in the French capital Paris to discuss the Lebanese file, diplomatic sources in Paris said.
The Arab official “might meet over the coming hours with French and Saudi officials involved in the Lebanese file in an attempt to remove the obstacles that are still preventing Lebanese consensus over a presidential candidate,” Asharq newspaper quoted the sources as saying.

Qatari envoy Jassem Bin Fahad Al-Thani, who has been in Lebanon since weeks to help the crisis-hit country break its presidential impasse, is meeting with Lebanese leaders away from the spotlight.
Al-Thani has met with Marada leader and Hezbollah's presidential candidate Suleiman Franjieh, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil, and former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, media reports said.

Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Wednesday warned that the Syrian presence in Lebanon has become a “security threat,” warning municipalities and mayors against being lax in reining in violations committed by Syrians.
“The issue of the heavy Syrian presence in Lebanon exceeds the infrastructure’s capacity and the state and citizens cannot tolerate this presence,” Mawlawi said at a press conference.

The presidential juncture seems to have reached a dead-end. This is what Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea told L'Orient-Le Jour, in remarks published Wednesday.
This is also what Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hinted at on Monday, when he said that "there is nothing clear or new in the near future" regarding the presidential file.

The Central Bank has issued a circular preventing banks from deducting new fees from bank accounts created prior to October 2019.
The Bank also asked commercial banks to disclose accurate information about the “real cost” and mechanism of any fees imposed on clients, warning that the Central Bank’s Banking Control Commission will oversee the implementation of the circular and will penalize any violating banks.

The wife of slain Lebanese Forces member Elias Hasrouni, Yvette Sleiman Hasrouni, has died of her wounds following a car crash, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The woman, who hailed from the southern town of Ain Ebel, had been rushed to the Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil suffering a hemorrhage and requiring large quantities of blood, NNA said.

The issue of the army commander post will take center stage in the next few weeks, amid “the lack of chances to reach a solution in the presidential file prior to the January 10 expiry of the army chief’s term,” MTV reported on Tuesday.
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil is meanwhile waging an “all-out war” against the army chief, General Joseph Aoun, the TV network said.
