Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat took to Twitter on Tuesday listing a number of measures that he said if applied by the Lebanese government would help the country get out of its “recession” or prevent it from “falling.”

“Before (deciding on) the wage scale or state budget, you should first deal with the huge squandering as mentioned in (Lebanese daily) Ad Diyar. You should also stop the electricity and telecommunication projects,” said Jumblat is a tweet.

Israel's education minister “warned Lebanon” following what he described as “threats” by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Naftali Bennett, a member of Israel's security cabinet, said any future attack by Hizbullah would be considered a "declaration of war by the Lebanese state" as a whole. He said Israel won't operate "surgically" in the next war with Hizbullah.

Three Lebanese nationals were among the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted a Turkish restaurant in Burkina Faso on Monday and left 18 individuals dead, Lebanon's authorities said.

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry identified in a statement the victims as Ahmed al-Beli, Mohsen Fneish and his Canadian wife who was pregnant at the time.

Dida Guigan was just two weeks old when she was whisked out of war-torn Beirut by her new parents, one of thousands of children adopted internationally during Lebanon's civil war.

She spent nine years looking for her Lebanese birth mother, only to find her living an hour away from the Swiss village where Guigan was raised by her adoptive family.

The United States delivered Bradley Fighting Vehicles and armored field artillery ammunition supply vehicles to the Lebanese Armed Forces, the US embassy said in a statement on Monday.

An economic dialogue meeting to discuss the wage scale law and the taxes to fund it began at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Monday.

President Michel Aoun has invited several parties to discuss the various points of dispute and disagreement over the recently approved salary scale bill and the new batch of taxes to fund said scale.

Buses carrying Saraya Ahl al-Sham rebels and displaced Syrians took off from east Arsal heading to Syria's eastern al-Qalamoun, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

According to reports, the vehicles are transporting around 360 rebels and many displaced Syrians.

Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah affirmed his country’s keenness to maintain the good relations that link Kuwait and Lebanon.

Armed Forces Veterans blocked several major roads in Beirut on Monday in a bid to pressure President Michel Aoun not to sign the wage scale file and related taxes that were referred to him through parliament last month.

A spokesman for the National Commission of the Armed Forces Veterans, Sami al-Rammah, voiced calls on Aoun “not to sign the wage scale file but to include his remarks and return it back to the parliament.”

Prime Minister Saad Hariri has stressed during his visit to Kuwait that Lebanon is ready to cooperate with the Emirate regarding the so-called Abdali terror cell after allegations that of Hizbullah's involvement in the cell.