The life imprisonment verdicts issued Thursday by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon are the “clearest condemnation of Hizbullah” in the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri said.

“After the conviction of Salim Ayyash in the crime of the assassination of martyr premier Rafik Hariri and his companions, the Appeals Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon unanimously sentenced two other Hezbollah members, Hassan Merhi and Hussein Oneissi, to life imprisonment,” Hariri tweeted.

The Constitutional Council’s deadline for accepting appeals against the results of the parliamentary elections ended on Thursday, after 15 appeals were filed in total, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The appeals were filed between May 31 and June 16, NNA said.

The so-called Change MPs will meet President Michel Aoun separately during the binding parliamentary consultations next Thursday, al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

In remarks published Thursday, the daily said that the meetings are separate because the MPs haven't yet agreed on one name according to some sources, while other sources said that the Parliament's General Secretariat has sent the names separately without asking the MPs.

U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Lebanon Najat Rochdi has delivered a speech at a press conference held Thursday at the U.N. House (Beirut) on the Extension and Revision of the Emergency Response Plan (ERP).

Below are Rochdi’s remarks as delivered at the conference:

Based on recent assessments, 2.5 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance in Lebanon – vulnerable Lebanese, migrants, and Palestine refugees in Lebanon (PRL) – in addition to 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the Lebanon office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

During meetings with the Lebanese Government, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, Najat Rochdi, has announced that the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) has allocated US$16 million to scale up humanitarian response in Lebanon.

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday scheduled the binding parliamentary consultations for picking a new PM for Thursday, June 23, the Presidency said.

In a meeting with a delegation from the Order of Physicians earlier in the day, Aoun had said that "all parties must work together to correct the mistakes that plunged the country into the current situation."

U.S. energy mediator Amos Hochstein has confirmed that what he heard from Lebanese officials in his meetings with them on Tuesday will enable the sea border negotiations with Israel to “go forward.”

Ex-MP Faisal Karami, one of many pro-Syria politicians who lost their seats in the May parliamentary elections, announced Tuesday that he has filed an appeal against the results of the elections before the Constitutional Council.

“These elections were marred by major flaws, several violations, frenzied financial spending and the biggest operation of buying consciences that Lebanon has witnessed, not to mention the incitement in the media and the unprecedented campaigns,” Karami said at a press conference.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced Tuesday that what U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein heard from President Michel Aoun regarding sea border demarcation is “agreed on by all Lebanese,” adding that Lebanon is “keen on preserving stability.”

Berri voiced his remarks in a 70-minute meeting with Hochstein in Ain el-Tineh.

U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border will meet on Tuesday with a delegation of "Change" MPs at the U.S. Embassy in Awkar.

The MPs will convey to Amos Hochstein that Lebanon has the right to Line 29, MP Ibrahim Mneimneh said.