The Lebanese Forces denied scenarios on Monday claiming the party has agreed to a “certain” government format, stressing their “steadfast” refusal to get a Cabinet quota similar to the one they have in the current government, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly extended sanctions imposed on Lebanon since 2007 for another year, the White House announced on Saturday.

The White House explained in a statement that Trump made the decision because “Iran continues to supply arms to Hizbullah.”

The National News Agency said on Saturday that some 900 Syrian refugees in the border towns of Shebaa and al-Arqoub have started preparing for their repatriation to neighbouring home country in Syria which will take place later on Saturday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat lashed out at Russia condemning a deadly Islamic State attack in the Druze-majority province of Sweida in Syria that killed more than 250 people.

President Michel Aoun said on Friday that Lebanon hopes the Russian initiative

Speaker Nabih Berri refuses to receive two UN officials at his Ain el-Tineh residence over what he described as “repulsive behavior,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

The dead body of a Lebanese woman was found in her apartment in Dubai, media reports said on Friday.

The victim was identified as Arlett Obeid, LBCI station said.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said the major flaw delaying the formation of Lebanon’s Cabinet is because the “battle for the presidency has begun way too soon,” the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Friday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri held talks on Thursday at the Center House with the Acting United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Pernille Dahler Kardel, in the presence of his advisor Nadim Mounla, the Premier’s office said in a statement on Thursday.

The joint parliamentary committees approved enacting two laws on Thursday on the protection of anti-corruption whistleblowers and a draft on solid waste management after MPs Paula Yacoubian, Sami Gemayel and Elias Hanksh walked out of the meeting following a dispute over the waste issue.