Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Monday charged that “some banks are still transferring money” to abroad based on some clients’ “favoritism and ties to bank owners.”

“Capital control prevents selectivity,” Bou Saab added, after a meeting for the joint parliamentary committees.

On Saturday 12 November, the British Embassy held a service at Beirut Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery to commemorate Remembrance Day. This is an annual event held in honor of people from all nations who have been killed or injured in conflicts around the world. The date of November 11 marks the end of the First World War in 1918 and around the world there will have been similar acts of remembrance over this weekend.

The British Ambassador, Hamish Cowell, was joined in giving a reading by the American Ambassador, Dorothy Shea, the German Deputy Head of Mission, Katharina Lack and the French Defense Attaché, Colonel Gregory Medina.

State Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat on Monday referred Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun to the general commission of the Court of Cassation after she failed to appear before him over a libel complaint filed by Speaker Nabih Berri and his wife Randa.

According to state-run National News Agency, Oueidat charged Aoun with “stirring sectarian sentiments, inciting conflict among the elements of the nation, libel, slander and abuse of power,” referring a copy of the lawsuit to the judicial inspection commission.

The late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's great-nephew has no links with the Islamic State group but was sent back to Iraq as part of a political deal with Lebanese authorities, his lawyer said.

Bushra al-Khalil told The Associated Press that her client, Abdullah Yasser Sabaawi, was living in Yemen in June 2014, when IS fighters massacred hundreds of Iraqi troops in central Iraq. She said Lebanese authorities handed over Abdullah to Iraq on Friday despite the fact that he had been registered as a refugee in Lebanon and denies any link with the 2014 massacre.

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, on Sunday announced that his party knows whom it wants for president.

Lebanon has extradited a man said to be a grandnephew of Saddam Hussein to Iraq, where he is accused of involvement in a massacre by the Islamic State group, a security source said.

Speaker Nabih Berri has reiterated his warning that the country cannot bear months of presidential vacuum, seeing as Lebanon's "dire" situation is much worse than it was in the vacuum period that preceded Michel Aoun's election.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday openly announced that his party wants a new president for Lebanon who “would reassure the resistance.”

“We do not want a president who would provide a cover for the resistance, because it does not need protection. We want a president who would not stab the resistance in the back,” Nasrallah added, in a televised address marking Hezbollah’s “Martyr Day”.

The United Nations Friday cautioned that millions of people displaced by conflicts and persecution in the Middle East risk "extreme hardship" as winter approaches.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said there was a dire need for more funds to support many displaced people at a time when the coming northern hemisphere winter is expected to be "far more challenging than in recent years". 

The Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon on Friday announced that it will seek a national dialogue in the country, as it stressed that the election of a president remains the top priority.

“There is no priority that is higher than the priority of electing a president and we call on MPs to elect a president immediately,” the Council said in a statement that followed a meeting.