Hezbollah has “preferred to end the memorandum of understanding with the Free Patriotic Movement,” an FPM MP said on Tuesday.

Municipal police in the Dinniyeh town of Bakhoun ordered the immediate evacuation of a number of residential buildings in the wake of Monday’s new earthquake in Turkey that was strongly felt in Lebanon, media reports said.

The Mansourieh branch of Bank of Beirut was on Tuesday sealed with red wax at the orders of Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun, media reports said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday met with Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Rudakov.

Minor 4.0- and 3.5-magnitude earthquakes struck off Lebanon’s southern coast on Tuesday, only hours after new 6.4- and 5.8-magnitude quakes rocked southern Turkey and were felt across Lebanon.

Lebanon’s National Center for Geophysics said the first quake hit 64 kilometers off the southern city of Sidon at 4:23 am. It was followed by a 3.5-magnitude tremor at 9:30 am, which struck 70 kilometers off Sidon.

High in Lebanon's rugged mountains, hatmaker Youssef Akiki is among the last artisans practicing the thousand-year-old skill of making traditional warm woolen caps once widely worn against the icy winter chill.

Akiki believes he may be the last commercial maker of the sheep wool "labbadeh" -- a named derived from the Arabic for felt, or "labd" -- a waterproof and warm cap colored off-white, grey, brown or black.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing eight people and sparking fresh panic after a February 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries.

Hezbollah has rejected a recent request from Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil for meeting with the party’s secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a senior Shiite Duo source said.

The term of General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim might be extended through an administrative decision or a Cabinet resolution should parliament fail to hold a legislative session, a media report said on Monday.

A Lebanese parliamentary delegation led by MP Ali Hassan Khalil has met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.