Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Wednesday lamented how the thorny file of Lebanon’s electricity crisis has been “forgotten,” describing it as “the main reform file.”

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday called Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and informed him of the date of binding parliamentary consultations to name a new premier, LBCI TV said.

President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday the Lebanese are "looking forward" to the results of a forensic audit into the financial accounts of the Central Bank to know how billions of dollars were wasted.

Head of Pharmaceuticals Importers Association, Karim Jbara, said on Wednesday that people started to panic buy medicine in anticipation of a shortage after the Central Banks’ decision to stop subsidies on main commodities including medicine, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

President Michel Aoun has called for binding consultations with the parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister on October 15, the Presidency media office said on Wednesday.

Lebanese Army chief General Joseph Aoun visited the United Kingdom at the invitation of his British counterpart General Nick Carter, the Lebanese Army said in a statement Tuesday.

Cyprus and Lebanon on Tuesday reaffirmed an agreement for Lebanese authorities to take back migrants aboard boats trying to reach Cypriot shores.

Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Lebanese and Cypriot police and naval forces will intercept migrant boats departing from Lebanon. He said European Union member Cyprus and Lebanon would also seek assistance from the bloc's border agency Frontex in coastal surveillance.

The Strong Lebanon parliamentary bloc said Tuesday that efforts aimed at guaranteeing that a new cabinet will be formed should precede the designation of a new PM.

President Michel Aoun is inclined to schedule the binding parliamentary consultations for picking a new PM for next week, media reports said on Tuesday.

Judge Fadi Sawan, the Judicial Investigator into the Beirut port blast, on Tuesday heard the testimonies of two more people, the National News Agency said.

NNA said Sawan questioned two officials from the Interior Ministry’s “gunpowder department” as witnesses.