A Lebanese man and his Venezuelan wife and young son of less than 5 years old were all killed in Venezuela by a theft gang, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Energy Minister Nada al-Bustani launched a campaign on Saturday to remove infringements on the crumbling electricity grid as part of fixing the electricity sector that has cost state coffers about $2 billion annually.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in a report on the implementation of resolution 1559, of Hizbullah’s retention of "large and sophisticated military capabilities," and called on the Lebanon to take measures to transform it into a “civilian party,” Asharq al-Awsat daily said on Saturday.

Progressive Socialist Party chief ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Friday said in an interview to Russia's state-owned English-language channel RT that the Israeli occupied “Shebaa Farms are not Lebanese,” noting that Hizbullah is a political party representing around 30% of the Lebanese people.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil appeased concerns of an economic collapse saying “everything said was the result of rumors some find easy to circulate around,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri discussed the ways to better bilateral and trade relations between Lebanon and Kuwait during a meeting with Kuwaiti Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Nasser Abdullah al-Roudan and the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Al al-Qinai.

A UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon Thursday said a tunnel discovered earlier this year by Israel had crossed the Lebanese-Israeli border, in the third such breach of a ceasefire resolution.

The Cabinet convened at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Thursday and set a session on Tuesday solely to discuss the 2019 state budget.

A member of the Internal Security Forces was found dead with a gunshot wound near the American University of Beirut, VDL (93.3) radio station said on Thursday.

The Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement are still in an open conflict over many internal issues the most recent was over leaking of minutes of meeting between Lebanese officials and Marshall Billingslea, assistant secretary for terrorist financing in the United States Department of the Treasury, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.