Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday snapped back at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea over a tweet related to the electoral law.

A fugitive was on Thursday shot dead at an army checkpoint in the northern region of Akkar, the military said.

The UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Sir Philip Barton, paid a virtual visit to Lebanon in which he relayed the UK's "ongoing and longstanding support to the people of Lebanon" and called on Lebanese leaders to "put their personal interests aside and urgently form a new government," the British embassy said on Thursday.

He was briefed by Country Director and Representative of the World Food Program in Lebanon Abdallah al-Wardat, World Health Organization Representative in Lebanon Dr. Iman Shankiti and World Bank Regional Director Middle East Saroj Kumar Jha, on what the U.N. is doing to help Lebanon's many challenges.

Former premiers Saad Hariri, Fouad Saniora and Tammam Salam met yesterday with ex-PM Najib Miqati at the Center House and did not endorse his initiative for the formation of a new government, media reports said on Thursday.

The Finance and Budget parliamentary committee led by MP Ibrahim Kanaan discussed the capital control law on Thursday, and decided to form a committee to find a solution that would help secure liquidity in Lebanon’s banks amid a financial crisis gripping the country.

“A capital control law should have been approved since October 2019 (when the financial crisis emerged) to end preferences in dealing with depositors,” said Kanaan.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian declared that his country will organize a conference on humanitarian aid for Lebanon during the month of November, media reports said Thursday.

The Lebanese army arrested 14 individuals who had been roaming the town of Harabta Valley in North Bekaa possessing weapons and ammunition in their vehicles, the Army Command-Orientation Directorate said in a statement on Thursday.

Ex-PM Najib Miqati on Wednesday announced that he nominates ex-PM Saad Hariri to lead a techno-political government comprised of 14 specialists and six political ministers of state.

Lebanon on Wednesday announced 1,459 new coronavirus cases -- the highest daily tally recorded by the country since the first case was detected on February 21.

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Wednesday hinted that his party and its allies will not accept any government format that “does not represent the parliamentary blocs.”