The head of the lawsuits dept. at the Justice Ministry, Judge Hilana Iskandar, has filed an appeal against a decision by Beirut’s acting First Examining Magistrate Charbel Abou Samra that had allowed ex-Central Bank chief Riad Salameh to walk free following interrogation.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday lashed out at the Palestinian factions over the fighting that has been raging since Saturday at the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp.

The Central bank is inclined to stop funding the state completely as of Monday, MTV said, after the government and parliament failed to pass a law that would allow the government to borrow foreign currency from the central bank.

First central bank vice-governor Wassim Mansouri, who took over as BDL's acting governor on Tuesday, had urged parliament and the government to cooperate in order to legalize spending during a transitional period before the central bank stops funding the state completely.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has contacted Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker PM Najib Mikati, urging them to exert efforts to halt the deadly clashes that have been raging for six days at the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has clarified that no Cabinet session will be held at the summer seat of the Maronite patriarchate in Diman but rather a ministerial meeting.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held talks Wednesday in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is upset by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati's attempt to evade passing a law that would allow the government to borrow foreign currency from the central bank, al-Akhbar newspaper said Wednesday.

First central bank vice-governor Wassim Mansouri, who took over as BDL's acting governor on Tuesday, urged parliament and the government to cooperate in order to legalize spending during a transitional period before the central bank stops funding the state completely.

Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has denied the presence of a “terror plot” behind the deadly clashes that rocked the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp over the past four days.

There is no “terror plot being implemented in Lebanon as some are saying,” Mawlawi said in a TV interview, calling on politicians to “perform their duties to the fullest, especially that security and military forces are carrying out their duties.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said overnight that his call for broad administrative and financial decentralization and for establishing a trust fund is not part of any “bargain or deal.”

“The equation of decentralization at the regional and local level and the trust fund at the national level is an equation for rescuing Lebanon at the financial, economic and social levels, regardless of any constitutional juncture,” Bassil said at a dinner for FPM expats.

Calm was engulfing the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday after a ceasefire entered into effect following four days of deadly clashes between the Fatah Movement and hardline Islamist militants.