The issue of extending the term of General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has suffered a “setback,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has recently asked U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea whether her country is against the election as president of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, a media report said.

Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has described his party’s undeclared nomination of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh as “reasonable,” as he denied that Hezbollah backs the extension of Central Bank chief Riad Salameh’s term.

Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh is the leading presidential candidate, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab claimed Thursday.

"Some might not like this," Bou Saab said, in an interview with al-Manar TV, adding that he might vote for Franjieh if the latter needs only one additional vote to be elected as president.

Beirut Attorney General Judge Raja Hamoush on Thursday charged Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, his brother Raja and his assistant Marianne Hoayek with money laundering, public funds embezzlement, tax evasion, forgery and illicit enrichment, the state-run National News Agency said.

A ministerial delegation traveled to Ankara on Thursday morning to offer condolences to Turkey after the deadly February 6 earthquake.

Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib and Public Works and Transport Minister Ali Hamieh will meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and a number of Turkish officials to express Lebanon's support for Turkey.

The High Court of Justice in London has ruled that SAVARO Ltd is liable toward victims of the Beirut port blast and will have to pay compensations, the Beirut Bar Association Prosecution office said Thursday.

On 4 August 2020 , hundreds of tons of explosive ammonium nitrate, typically used in fertilizers, detonated, killing more than 200 people, injuring over 6,000 and damaging large parts of Beirut.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati will call for a cabinet session that will be held on Monday, media reports said.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Wednesday told the European Parliament that caretaker PM Najib Mikati is “blatantly interfering in the judiciary,” after he called for legal measures against her.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab accused Wednesday caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati of not revealing to the Lebanese the truth about the Egyptian gas.

"I did not disclose what the World Bank told me about the Egyptian gas loan, and which you haven't told the Lebanese about" Bou Saab said. "The MPs are witnesses to this," Bou Saab added.