The Lebanese state has reportedly put forward three proposals to address the growing housing loans crisis threatening “social security” amid "positive" signs that the loans could be “revived” after a halt of six months, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.

The formation of Lebanon’s government has become “more than necessary” in view of the serious “economic challenges, regional developments and Israeli threats,” the country faces, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri expressed his hopes that disagreements between political parties “disappear” in order to form a government and face the challenges ahead, his media office said on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly set to appoint its Saudi charge d'affaires to Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari as the country's ambassador to Lebanon, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

The United States is “keen” on Lebanon’s political stability and “encourages” the formation of a new government but “without showing any intention” to intervene directly in this regard mainly the “inclusion of Hizbullah” in the new Cabinet, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

The Prosecution of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon continued on Friday to present its closing arguments in the case of ‘Ayyash et al. case’ before the court in The Hague.

The STL said that Joseph Aoun, Lilianne Khallouf, Sahar Kalaoui, Wissam Naji and Sanaa El Sheikh – participating victims in the proceedings in the ‘Ayyash et al. case’ were attending the closing arguments in the courtroom.

General Security Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim is expected to intervene and “appease” the tension fuelled by dismissal of employees between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Sources following up on the file, said Ibrahim will “likely intervene” to calm the escalating feud between the two after the PSP changed the position of an FPM-affiliate staff employee which triggered a retaliatory measure on the FPM’s part.

Speaker Nabih Berri seems determined to hold a legislative session before the end of this month in an attempt to spare the legislative power “paralysis and disruption” in light of the inability to form a new government, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat daily reported on Monday.

The Lebanese Basketball Federation and Societe Generale de banque au Liban signed a partnership agreement on Thursday at the Nohad Nawfal Stadium in Zouk Mkayel.

The ceremony was held in the presence of the Federation’s President , Akram Halabi, SGBL’s Director of Strategy and Marketing, Habib Khoury, the Federation’s Vice President, Eddy Bou Zakhm, the Federation’s Secretary General, Tony Khalil, the Head of National Team Committee Ghazi Boustany, the Federation members George Sabounjian, Charbel Michel Rizk and Patrick Lahoud, and the representatives of the media outlets.

Speaker Nabih Berri raised with the French ambassador Bruno Foucher the file of Lebanon’s maritime oil from the perspective of Israel's attempt to explore within the Lebanese sea waters, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

Berri had pointed to the “seriousness of this Israeli attack,” stressing that “Lebanon can not accept this, nor abandon its right to its water and oil wealth.” He “rejected attempts to prevent Lebanon from taking advantage of its wealth, as some parties sought to postpone the exploration plan in some blocks, for a year.”