In order to benefit from a French-planned humanitarian aid conference for Lebanon, the crisis-hit country better line up its government before the end of November, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Thursday.

A leading witness retracted Wednesday allegations that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy took millions in cash from Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi for his 2007 election campaign.

French-Lebanese businessman, Ziad Takieddine, had claimed he delivered suitcases carrying a total of five million euros from Tripoli to Sarkozy's chief of staff in 2006 and 2007.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday described Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil’s stance on the latest U.S. sanctions as “brave,” as he warned Israel against waging “any aggression.”

Two Qatari military planes carrying two field hospitals arrived Wednesday afternoon in Lebanon.

Lebanon and Israel, still technically at war and with no diplomatic ties, held a new round of maritime border talks Wednesday under U.N. and U.S. auspices to allow for offshore energy exploration.

A joint statement released by the United States and the Office of the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon described the talks as "productive."

Outgoing Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe urged the international community on Wednesday to help return more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees back to their homeland.

The defense team for former Nissan executive Greg Kelly began questioning a key prosecution witness in a Tokyo court this week, seeking to show the alleged underreporting of income of his boss Carlos Ghosn was devised by others at the automaker.

Since the trial began in September, Kelly has only presented a brief opening statement insisting on his innocence. In questioning Toshiaki Ohnuma, who was in charge of compensation at Nissan, defense lawyer Yoichi Kitamura sought to show that Ohnuma, at the order of higher-ups at Nissan, devised plans to obscure exactly how much Ghosn would be paid, knowing they might be improper in Japan.

French President Emmanuel Macron's advisor for North Africa and the Middle East, Patrick Durrell, is scheduled to arrive in Beirut Wednesday, in an effort to revive the French initiative, media reports said.

She is a nurse at a Beirut hospital, and still Rita Harb can't find her grandfather's heart drugs.

She has searched pharmacies up and down Lebanon, called friends abroad. Not even her connections with doctors could secure the drugs. Unlike many amid Lebanon's financial crash, she can afford them — they just aren't there.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday described the latest anti-corruption U.S. sanctions on Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil as “right and proper and will deliver a good outcome” for the Lebanese people.