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.

A depositor who was arrested after having stormed a bank in Hazmieh was admitted to hospital Friday as his health condition deteriorated in custody.

Wheelchair-bound Ibrahim Baydoun was taken to al-Hayat Hospital as he required intensive care treatment, al-Jadeed TV said.

A heated argument has escalated into a large fistfight in the studio of the popular political talk show Sar el Waqt hosted by journalist Marcel Ghanem.

Ghanem was forced to interrupt the broadcast on Thursday night, while the fight continued outside the studio, at the premises of the MTV building in Naccache.

Ex-president Michel Aoun has described remarks voiced by caretaker PM Najib Mikati in parliament as “curtailed and lacking a lot of accuracy and correctness.”

“When he visited me to bid farewell six days before the term’s end, I told him that I was waiting for him to return to Baabda so that we issue the formation decree together, according to norms, but he went and did not come back,” Aoun said in a statement.

Shadia Ahmed panicked as rainwater flooded her shack one night, drenching her seven children. The next morning, the kids were seized by vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.

After an aid group administered tests for cholera in Ahmed's Syrian refugee encampment in the northern Lebanese town of Bhanine, her youngest, 4-year-old Assil, tested positive.