Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar visited Sidon on Tuesday and hoped the municipal and mayoral elections in the South on Saturday will be an occasion for the state to “restore its presence and stress its sovereignty in the South.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri seemed to be satisfied with the results of the municipal elections in the capital Beirut in an interview with local news portal al-Modon.

"We have secured parity in a way that is no longer acceptable to call Amal and Hezbollah a Shiite Duo but a National Duo," Berri told al-Modon in remarks published Tuesday.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement’s former Beirut coordinator Mahmoud al-Jamal, a retired brigadier general, has managed to clench a seat on Beirut’s new municipal council, preventing a list comprising most political parties from winning all 24 seats.

At least one person was killed on Monday and three others wounded by Israeli attacks on multiple locations across southern Lebanon, authorities said, despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

A 28-year-old man was remanded in custody in Denmark on Monday on suspicions of purchasing drones to be used in a Hamas "terrorist attack", Danish intelligence said Monday.

A decision to disarm the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon has been taken and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ visit to Beirut on Wednesday will be “decisive in this regard in terms of devising the plans and executive mechanisms,” Lebanese sources informed on the Palestinian file said.

President Joseph Aoun has said diplomatic contacts are ongoing especially with the U.S. to pressure Israel to stop its attacks on Lebanon, adding that Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus will visit Lebanon soon.

In an interview late Sunday with Egyptian digital television channel ON E, Aoun said the Israeli occupation of five Lebanese hills is preventing the Lebanese army from deploying on the border. "We are in constant contact with the U.S. to urge it to pressure Israel," he said, explaining that Lebanon is seeking a truce deal and not a normalization of ties with Israel.

The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program on Monday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information on “Hezbollah financial networks in South America.”

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced that he agreed with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on practical steps to “end the plight of Syrian prisoners in Lebanon.”

Dialogue between the Lebanese state and Hezbollah over the latter’s remaining weapons is ongoing behind the scenes, a diplomatic source from the five-nation group for Lebanon said.