President Michel Aoun said Monday that some parties do not want the sea border demarcation file to be finalized during his presidential term, while noting that the cabinet formation process has not been suspended.

In a meeting with a delegation from the Syndicate of the Workers of Audiovisual Media, Aoun added that Speaker Nabih Berri and PM-designate Najib Mikati can be asked about this matter, seeing as “they possess the necessary information about everything that is happening in this file.”

Israel’s Channel 12 has leaked what it called the “emerging agreement” with Lebanon over the demarcation of the maritime border.

Lebanon’s pro-Hezbollah newspaper al-Akhbar meanwhile reported that the Israeli proposal is “full of landmines” that the Lebanese side “cannot accept.”

Tracy Chamoun, an ex-ambassador and granddaughter of late president Camille Chamoun, announced Monday she will run for the presidency of crisis-hit Lebanon, in a rare such bid by a woman in the small country.

Chamoun, 61, has not yet received a formal endorsement from any of Lebanon's ruling parties in parliament, whose 128 legislators are tasked with voting for the country's president.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has “given up his demand” to enlarge the government from 24 to 30 seats in return for him naming the new economy and displaced ministers who will replace incumbent ministers Amin Salam and Issam Sharafeddine, a media report said.

“Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati does not mind this matter,” al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati held talks Monday with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

He left without making a statement.

The Presidency's press office has issued a strong-worded statement denying "everything that has been said by politicians and in the media about President Michel Aoun's staying in Baabda after the end of his term."

Slamming the accusations as "mere fabrications," the Presidency said they are "part of the ongoing scheme to target the Presidency's position and the president in person."

Lebanese singer George al-Rassi was killed at dawn Saturday in a car crash in the al-Masnaa area following his return from a concert in neighboring Syria.

He was 39 years old.

A plane belonging to Middle East Airlines -- Lebanon’s national carrier -- made an emergency landing overnight in Athens due to an engine malfunction.

The plane took off from Beirut and was headed for the Heathrow Airport in London.

A submarine has found the remains of at least 10 migrants who drowned when their boat sank earlier this year off the coast of Lebanon with about 30 people on board, the navy announced.

The boat, carrying dozens of Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians trying to migrate by sea to Italy, went down more than 5 kilometers from the port of Tripoli, following a confrontation with the Lebanese navy.

UNIFIL will be Hezbollah's "shield" in the next conflict between Lebanon and Israel, Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post said.

"The likelihood of that potential conflict has grown due to the Lebanese Army subservience to Hezbollah, and UNIFIL irrelevance and dereliction of mission to prevent the resumption of hostilities," the daily added.