The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Monday stressed that it is still coordinating its patrols with the Lebanese Army, dismissing rumors and false reports in this regard.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has called on President Michel Aoun to “exert efforts with all those concerned to elect a president prior to the end of his term and to ‘do the impossible’ to achieve this.”

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab confirmed overnight that Lebanon has “received from U.S. mediator Amor Hochstein the coordinates of the sea buoys” that Israel wants to delineate as part of the maritime border demarcation agreement.

A book of condolences for Queen Elizabeth II will open for the public at the National Library in Beirut over the next four days, the British embassy said on Monday.

The book of condolences will be open during the following times:

They literally run the country.

In parking lots, on flatbed trucks, hospital courtyards and rooftops, private generators are ubiquitous in parts of the Middle East, spewing hazardous fumes into homes and businesses 24 hours a day.

Lebanon's central bank lifted its remaining subsidies on fuel on Monday, gas station owners said, ending a year-long process of scaling back on the expensive program.

The Central Bank over a year ago announced it would gradually lift fuel subsidies, to slow down the draining of its foreign exchange reserves. Fuel subsidies once cost the cash-strapped country some $3 billion annually. Last week, it subsidized just 20% of the cost of fuel imports.

Maronite Patriarch Beshra al-Rahi appeared Sunday to back a controversial move to name an alternate judge in the Beirut port blast case.

“It is unfortunate that the Lebanese have reached a state of mistrust and politicization, which is what’s happening today between the families of victims of the Beirut port bombing and caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Thanks to solar energy, residents of the northern Lebanese village of Toula are finally able to enjoy ice cream again -- a treat in a sun-baked country plagued by power cuts.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein told Lebanese officials in his meetings with them on Friday that a point of contention needs to be resolved in order for the negotiations to move towards a quick agreement, media reports said.

“The issue is related to fixing the ‘maritime Blue Line,’ which is marked by the line of buoys on the surface of the sea off the coasts of Lebanon and occupied Palestine,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that the LF does not want a presidential vacuum, noting that it is Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil who "does not want to endorse any president but himself."