Lebanese courts are full of dozens of lawsuits demanding that banks pay account holders the sums of money they need to withdraw, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat reported on Thursday.

The first lawsuit was filed in November by Judge of Urgent Matters Ahmed Mezher against a bank in Nabatieh.The Judge ordered the release of 129 thousand euros, without delay and under penalty of coercive fine of 20 million pounds for each day of delay.

A young man of Lebanese descent will get engaged to U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany on January 11, according to invitations sent out by their two families.

“The story of Michael Charbel Boulos and Tiffany Donald Trump started in the summer of 2018, as they were vacationing on the Mykonos Island in Greece,” Lebanon’s MTV reported.

Celebratory gunfire wounded five people in Lebanon on New Year’s Eve, the Internal Security Forces said on Wednesday.

“Five people were injured in al-Qobbeh, el-Mina and al-Nour Square (in Tripoli), and on the Sayyed Hadi Nasrallah Highway and Choueifat” in Beirut’s suburbs, an ISF statement said.

Caretaker Minister of Finance, Ali Hassan Khalil, on Tuesday said that he had refused the extension of Lebanon's state-owned operating cell phone companies' mandate shortly before the Media and Communications Parliamentary Committee convened and rejected the extension.

With Lebanon suffering from an unprecedented economic crisis, the head of the hotel owners association Pierre Ashkar said the hotel sector falters as sales slow.

Political parties have agreed on excluding former ministers from the new government, but according to leaked reports the new line-up is a “disguised” ministerial quota naming 18 non-partisan figures equally divided between Muslims and Christians, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, a Lebanese-French-Brazilian national, arrived in Lebanon on Sunday aboard a private plane, LBCI TV reported Monday.

Ghosn has been put on trial in Japan on charges of embezzling funds from the Renault-Nissan group and was released on bail in April.

Hizbullah and the AMAL Movement have agreed with Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab on the formation of a purely technocrat government, sources close to Diab said.

“The government will not comprise figures from the outgoing government,” the sources added in remarks to al-Jadeed TV.

State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat on Monday requested information from Swiss and Lebanese authorities about the alleged transfer abroad of large sums of money by a number of Lebanese politicians.

The National News Agency said Oueidat has sought the help of “the Swiss judiciary, the Special Investigation Commission of Banque du Liban and the Banking Control Commission of Lebanon.”

Protest movement groups on Monday filed a lawsuit with Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim against caretaker Telecom Minister Mohammed Choucair and others over what they called the “illegal” extension of the contracts of Lebanon’s mobile network operators Alfa and touch.

The lawsuit accuses Choucair and anyone identified during investigations of “the waste of public funds and the violation of the public auditing law” by seeking to “smuggle the extension contract with touch and Alfa in violation of the law, despite the report of the telecom parliamentary committee and a previous lawsuit by the financial prosecution against the directors of the two firms on charges of illicit enrichment and graft.”