Lebanon is in the most dangerous stage of its political, economic, financial and social history, said Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Al-Rahi said Monday that war makers cannot make peace, and that the ruling class has failed to elect a new president because "those who made the war are ruling our country."

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived Sunday in Egypt to take part in the U.N.'s COP27 climate summit, which will be held over two days in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday addressed Lebanese officials and friendly countries by saying that “there is no priority that comes before the priority of electing a president.”

Pope Francis said Sunday he was praying for "suffering peoples of the Middle East", at the end of a Bahrain visit promoting dialogue with Islam.

In a final address before boarding a flight to Rome, he also urged congregants to pray "for Ukraine, which is suffering so much," and for an end to the war.

Scores of Syrian refugees have headed home from eastern Lebanon in the second convoy in less than two weeks as Lebanon attempts to organize a mass refugee return to the war-torn country.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the "voluntary return" Saturday included 330 Syrians who left from the eastern Bekaa Valley to Syria's western Qalamoun region. Qalamoun borders Lebanon and years ago witnessed some of the worst fighting of Syria's 11-year conflict.

A conference organized by Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Taif Accord was held Saturday at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut, in the presence of a host of politicians.

Marwa Khaled's teenage son was hospitalized with cholera after drinking polluted water in Lebanon's impoverished north -- yet she still buys the same contaminated water, the only kind she can afford.

The Lebanese American University (LAU) has organized and hosted a cultural exchange sports event titled “USA-Lebanon Sports and Diplomacy,” in collaboration with U.S. Embassy Beirut. Ambassador Dorothy Shea; LAU Chief Academic Officer Dr. George Nasr; President of the Basketball Association Akram Halabi; and other members from LAU, U.S. Embassy Beirut, and the National Basketball Federation attended the event.

"This sports and diplomacy event provided an opportunity to showcase the common values between two basketball-loving countries, Lebanon and the United States," the U.S. Embassy and LAU said in a joint statement.

Moroccan authorities have seized more than two million amphetamine-type captagon pills, foiling an "international trafficking attempt" to West Africa, police said.

The pills were found at the Tanger Med industrial port complex on the kingdom's northern coast, the DGSN security service said in a statement.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held Friday at the Grand Serail a meeting on cholera control with the ambassadors of donor countries and international organizations.

The caretaker ministers of health, interior and energy, the ambassadors of donor countries to Lebanon and representatives of the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program, and UNICEF attended the meeting.